Making Visible a Collage of Radical Scientists and Critics. (2nd January 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Taylor, Peter J.
• Is Part Of: Science as culture. Volume 30:Number 1(2021)
• Page Start: 104
• Page End: 116
• Publication Date: 2021-01-02
• Subjects: STS -- biography -- Science for the People -- Marxism -- feminist STS; Science -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Technology -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; 306.4505
• DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2020.1857350
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0950-5431

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Taylor proposes the question, "How do we make sense of radical scientists and critics of science in relation to their changing contexts?" After identifying individuals who came to STS after being involved in popular movements of the 1970s, contesting the directions taken in science and technology, he proposes three themes to guide inquiry into the question: transitions, transversals, and tensions. Each of these themes illustrate how different directions (resistance, revival, resignation, ramifications, regularities, reframing), marked shifts in the focus of the intellectual work and lives for some (or perhaps many) of those individuals. These transitions can be seen as linked into a transversal project of exploring ways to stimulate researchers (and students training to become researchers) to self-consciously examine the complexity of their social situatedness so as to change the ways they address the complexity of the situations they study.