1. SCIENCE STUDIES
Strengths: politicizes science, challenges scientific authority, discusses differential participation and applications of science, challenges objectivity, interdisciplinary knowledge production
Weaknesses: assumes a pure space of “science” as a starting point, assumes binary separations, not integrated with political; ignores nation, Eurocentric
Gaps: Science Studies as a whole lacks theory, focuses on case studies and positivist methodologies, except Feminist Science Studies and Postcolonial studies, which are both very good at social identity-based theorizing in particular; political economy is strong in most science studies except for Feminist Science Studies; Postcolonial Science Studies lacks gender analysis; areas that bridge many of these gaps include the feminist environmental literature, reproductive technology literature, and critique of development literature.
a. CONSTRUCTION OF BIOLOGICAL BODIES (FEMINIST SCIENCE STUDIES)
Gaps: disconnect between various levels of bodies/entities, from cells to humans to social bodies, and from nature to culture, all in a globally transnational economic and socio-political context
Interrogative trajectory: How is science and the construction of bodies a (discursive) backdrop to GWOT? How can the merging of Public Health and National Security structures be contextualized within these different levels of body construction?
b. RISK/ SCIENTIFIC AUTHORITY, (BIO-)SECURITY, POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BIOTECH/EPIDEMIOLOGY
Gaps: relationship between political economy of biotech and bio-security, and both in a globally transnational context; the role of information and code in shaping risk and security is underemphasized in importance
Interrogative trajectory: How does the history and political economy of Bioterrorism (and Biotech) contextualize Bioterrorism’s effects on Public Health and National Security? How is the discourse of risk and scientific authority shaping them?
c. LAY CITIZEN PARTICIPATION-ENGAGEMENT
Gaps: different understandings of publics by various sections of Science Studies; contextualizing participation and activism around science in a globally transnational context
Interrogative trajectory: What kinds of resistance can and do occur in response to the Public Health-National Security nexus? How does Bioterrorism shape (variegated) people’s engagement with Public Health and Bioscience/Biotechnology?
Weaknesses: assumes a pure space of “science” as a starting point, assumes binary separations, not integrated with political; ignores nation, Eurocentric
Gaps: Science Studies as a whole lacks theory, focuses on case studies and positivist methodologies, except Feminist Science Studies and Postcolonial studies, which are both very good at social identity-based theorizing in particular; political economy is strong in most science studies except for Feminist Science Studies; Postcolonial Science Studies lacks gender analysis; areas that bridge many of these gaps include the feminist environmental literature, reproductive technology literature, and critique of development literature.
a. CONSTRUCTION OF BIOLOGICAL BODIES (FEMINIST SCIENCE STUDIES)
Gaps: disconnect between various levels of bodies/entities, from cells to humans to social bodies, and from nature to culture, all in a globally transnational economic and socio-political context
Interrogative trajectory: How is science and the construction of bodies a (discursive) backdrop to GWOT? How can the merging of Public Health and National Security structures be contextualized within these different levels of body construction?
b. RISK/ SCIENTIFIC AUTHORITY, (BIO-)SECURITY, POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BIOTECH/EPIDEMIOLOGY
Gaps: relationship between political economy of biotech and bio-security, and both in a globally transnational context; the role of information and code in shaping risk and security is underemphasized in importance
Interrogative trajectory: How does the history and political economy of Bioterrorism (and Biotech) contextualize Bioterrorism’s effects on Public Health and National Security? How is the discourse of risk and scientific authority shaping them?
c. LAY CITIZEN PARTICIPATION-ENGAGEMENT
Gaps: different understandings of publics by various sections of Science Studies; contextualizing participation and activism around science in a globally transnational context
Interrogative trajectory: What kinds of resistance can and do occur in response to the Public Health-National Security nexus? How does Bioterrorism shape (variegated) people’s engagement with Public Health and Bioscience/Biotechnology?
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