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Machineries of Oil is an investigation into oil infrastructure in modern society, examining local power struggles over the construction of the global oil industry in a non-western context. This history is crucial for understanding the twentieth-century politics of the Middle East and the peculiar ways in which countries of the Global South have served as irreplaceable laboratories for producing knowledge and know-how on nature and society. This book will come at a time when tensions between the US and Iran, and tensions surrounding the politics of the oil industry in the Middle East in particular, have become unfortunately heightened in the wake of the change in US administration. We feel this book is particularly suited to the Knowledge Unlatched program because our reach to Middle East studies audiences is somewhat limited, and we’d like this book to be available to as many readers as possible, despite limited marketing resources to go beyond our usual channels.

Political Science --- Iran --- British Petroleum --- Oil --- Infrastructure --- Science and Technology Studies --- Middle East

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Are financial crises embedded in IT? Can gender studies offer insights into financial reporting? Feminist theories and Science and Technology Studies (STS) can enrich a critique of financial crises in capitalism as the author argues their critical, political economic approaches to communication can help in understanding because they historicize technology and economy and how these are materially embedded. Current literature has neglected finance and capital’s gendered aspect – even – the ideology of a ‘crisis’. This book develops four themes: women as resources in financial markets and as producers of values; gender ideology and unequal distribution; machine production and distribution of financial information and the varied actuality of markets. Working with case histories of tulipmania, microcredit, Wall Street reporting and the role of ‘screens’, Bubbles and Machines argues that rather than calling financial crises human-made or inevitable they should be recognized as technological. 

financial crisis --- feminism --- technology --- science and technology studies --- gender --- financial information

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Au début des années 80, un groupe de chercheurs de l’École des mines se penche sur un aspect du monde contemporain négligé par les sciences sociales : les sciences et les techniques. Comment sont-elles produites ? Comment leur validité ou leur efficacité sont-elles établies ? Comment se diffusent-elles ? Comment contribuent-ils à transformer le monde ? Ces travaux donnent naissance à une approche aujourd’hui reconnue : la sociologie de la traduction, dite aussi théorie de l’acteur réseau, ave...

sociologie de la traduction, sociologie de l’innovation, innovation technologique, science and technology studies, sociologie des sciences et des techniques

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Susan Leigh Star's (1954-2010) research encompasses aspects of infrastructural and social theory, knowledge ecologies, feminism and theories of marginality. For the first time, this volume introduces the American science and technology sociologist's most important writings in German. Her texts on border objects, marginality, infrastructures and standards are commented upon by academics and scientists in these fields, and analyzed for their relevance to media studies. With commentaries by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Cora Bender, Ulrike Bergermann, Monika Dommann, Christine Hanke, Bernhard Nett, Jörg Potthast, Gabriele Schabacher, Cornelius Schubert, Erhard Schüttpelz and Jörg Strübing.

infrastruktur --- mediensoziologie --- media --- medien --- infrastructure --- science and technology studies --- sociology of media --- standards --- technology --- medienwissenschaft --- susan leigh star --- boundary objects --- grenzobjekte --- media studies --- media theory --- medientheorie --- technologie

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Nationale Ethikkomitees gelten als adäquate Lösung für ethische Probleme lebenswissenschaftlicher - und zunehmend auch nanotechnologischer - Entwicklungen. Aber wann, wie und in welchem Kontext setzten sich diese Ethikpolitiken durch? Und wogegen? Diesen Fragen geht Sabine Könninger am Beispiel Frankreichs nach und zeigt, wie sich eine Regierungstechnologie etablierte, in der Kritik an Forschungszielen und -zwecken unerwünscht ist. Die Studie bietet einen kritischen Forschungsbeitrag zu ethischen Institutionen und Diskursen im Bereich der Science and Technology Studies. Umfangreich erschließt sie einem deutschsprachigen Publikum die Auseinandersetzungen um Wissenschaft und Technik in Frankreich.

Political Science --- Ethics Commitee --- France --- History --- Medicine --- Biotechnology --- Nanotechnology --- Biopolitics --- Technologies of Government --- Governmentality --- Science and Technology Studies --- Bioethics --- Political Science --- Politics --- Ethics