Research Articles, Department of Science and Technology in Society
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Rediscovering the King of Woodpeckers: Exploring the Implications
(Resilience Alliance, 2005-12)The Ivory-billed Woodpecker has long held a special place in the psyche of North American conservation, eliciting unusually colorful prose, even from scientists, as an icon of the wild. The reverence in which it was held ... -
ideology and the clamshell identity - organizational dilemmas in the antinuclear power movement
(University of California Press, 1986-06)This ethnographic study examines the role of ideology in the development of organizational dilemmas in the Clamshell Alliance, an anti-nuclear protest group active in New England during the late 1970s. In 1977, the Alliance ... -
The Dilemma of Case Studies Resolved: The Virtues of Using Case Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science
(MIT Press, 2001-12)Philosophers of science turned to historical case studies in part in response to Thomas Kuhn's insistence that such studies can transform the philosophy of science. In this issue Joseph Pitt argues that the power of case ... -
Cradle of a revolution? The industrial transformation of Louisiana's lower Mississippi river
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2006-01)This article provides an overview of the petrochemical industry's transformation of Louisiana's Lower Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to New Orleans from the early 1900s to the present. First there is a broad discussion ... -
"Liberal Education Has Failed": Reading Like an Engineer in 1960s America
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Emotions and Narrative Selves
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Combating Racialized and Gendered Ignorance: Theorizing a Transactional Pedagogy of Friendship
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2013)The article explores the problem of epistemological ignorance. Drawing on the literature of feminist epistemology, in particular the epistemologies of ignorance, it theorizes white ignorance and male ignorance and how it ... -
Why MIT Institutionalized the Avant-Garde: Negotiating Aesthetic Virtue in the Postwar Defense Institute
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2013)This essay explores MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies to address two major absences in understandings of art/science/technology collaboration: 1) what drew scientists and engineers-not just elite policymakers and ... -
The element of the table: Visual discourse and the preperiodic representation of chemical classification
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2004)
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