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Do-it-yourself biology, as a promise of democratization of science, is analyzed in terms of its spatiality and materiality, and in terms of the various kinds of boundary-work it entails, in the perspective of a geography of science that focuses on emerging and less institutionalized sites of...
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Sketches a pragmatist model of authority by studying the case of a consultant faced with the issue of establishing his authority in the actual context of a consulting assignment, and showing how the consultant invokes various “figures” that lend weight to his actions.
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Shows that how knowledge-related activities are central to activism in childbirth organization, comparing the UK, Ireland, Portugal and France.
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Describes two examples (in France and in the US) of replication of the Danish procedure of the consensus conference for public participation in nanotechnology, and argues that emphasis on the evaluation of the participatory procedure should not be made at the expense of richer analysis of the...
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In 2012, considering its development strategy for the electric car market, Renault turned the town of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines into a experimentation and demonstration laboratory, with the installation of electric cars as part of a car sharing system without fixed stations, called Twizy Way. In...
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