The Mangle in Practice: Science, Society, and Becoming

Published by Duke University Press 2008

The Mangle in Practice

Science, Society, and Becoming

Edited by: Andrew Pickering , Keith Guzik , Barbara Herrnstein Smith and E. Roy Weintraub
With contributions by: Adrian Franklin

In the series Science and Cultural Theory

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822390107

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About this book

An examination, by a diverse field of experts, of Pickering's mangle theory and its applicability (or lack thereof) beyond the limited cases he presented in the seminal book that introduced this theory.

Author / Editor information

Andrew Pickering is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Exeter. He is the author of The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science and Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics and the editor of Science as Practice and Culture.

Keith Guzik is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bloomfield College in Bloomfield, New Jersey.

Reviews

“Andrew Pickering is a major figure in the field of science studies. In the original, widely cited and widely admired but still controversial The Mangle of Practice, he developed a number of important concepts that are strongly resonant for many members of the current generation of scholars, researchers, and theorists in the social sciences and humanities. This new, very substantial, highly readable collection will be illuminating for readers interested in science studies, post-humanist approaches to ethical-pragmatic issues, and/or new directions in ontology.”—Barbara Herrnstein Smith, author of Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth, and the Human

“Andrew Pickering’s ‘mangle of practice’ is one of the key contemporary interpretive frameworks that question the society/nature dichotomy. His proposal makes distinct contributions not only to science studies but to all disciplines engaged in post-humanist projects of knowledge production and committed to bypassing the sterile dichotomy between rationality and relativism. Applying Pickering’s mangle to problems ranging from natural resource management to the dynamics of police work, this timely collection demonstrates the power and flexibility of Pickering’s proposal.”—Mario Biagioli, author of Galileo’s Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy

“This excellent collection offers cutting-edge theorizations of cultural practice, showing how science and society work with and against each other across a broad cultural landscape. It is especially welcome that the essays explore, often profoundly, a number of phenomena—practices—which have rarely if ever been addressed previously, but which are shown here to possess unexpected complexity and significance.”—Arkady Plotnitsky, author of Complementarity: Anti-Epistemology after Bohr and Derrida

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Andrew Pickering Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
New Ontologies Andrew Pickering Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part one: Studies
A Choreography of Fire: A Posthumanist Account of Australians and Eucalypts Adrian Franklin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Crate and Mangle: Questions of Agency in Confinement Livestock Facilities Dawn Coppin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
Soul Collectors: A Meditation on Arresting Domestic Violence Keith Guzik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Resisting and Accommodating Thomas Sargent: Putting Rational Expectations Economics through the Mangle of Practice Esther-Mirjam Sent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
The Mangle of Practice and the Practice of Chinese Medicine: A Case Study from Nineteenth-Century China Volker Scheid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
Mảrup Church and the Politics of Hybridization: On Choice and Becoming Casper Bruun Jensen and Randi Markussen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Part two: Reflexivity
Going with the Flow: Living the Mangle through Environmental Management Practice Lisa Asplen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
A Manglish Way of Working: Agile Software Development Brian Marick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
The Docile Body of the Scientist Yiannis Koutalos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
Part three: Theory
The Mangle of Practice or the Empire of Signs: Toward a Dialogue between Science Studies and Soviet Semiotics Maxim Waldstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Ontological Dance: A Dialogue between Heidegger and Pickering Carol J. Steiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
About the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 320
Illustrations
- Other: 3 photographs

eBook

Published: January 14, 2009
ISBN: 9780822390107