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Thomas Widlok
/
M. Dores Cruz
(eds.)
Scale Matters
The Quality of Quantity in Human Culture and Sociality
A discussion of scale and scaling in research, inviting a scale-conscious engagement with questions of human sociality, culture, and evolution.
The New Meatways and Sustainability
Discourses and Social Practices
This book offers an innovative and transdisciplinary journey to the challenges and opportunities within the relationship between practices and discourses.
(Dis)Obedience in Digital Societies
Perspectives on the Power of Algorithms and Data
Algorithms shape human behavior on various levels – how can this algorithmic power be broken?
More Than Machines?
The Attribution of (In)Animacy to Robot Technology
You, Robot?! – An interdisciplinary exploration of why we treat robots as if they were living beings.
Martin Döring
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Regine Kollek
(eds.)
Emerging Diseases
Structure, Controversy and Change in the Scientific Constitution of Disease Patterns
Hypotheses about diseases and their causes are often contested. This book displays empirical studies investigating emergence, contestation and change in disease patterns.
The Plausibility of Future Scenarios
Conceptualising an Unexplored Criterion in Scenario Planning
What does it mean if scenarios about the future are plausible? The book analyses the unexplored concept and its implications for producers and users of scenarios.
Robotic Knitting
Re-Crafting Human-Robot Collaboration Through Careful Coboting
Robotic Knitting intervenes in how »we« currently imagine and design »our« future with cobots. It re-crafts collaboration between human and robot.
Making Diabetes
The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda
This book asks how the glucometer, the often only choice to diagnose diabetes in Uganda, contributes to the making of this disease in a setting with weak health infrastructure.
Sustainable Development in Science Policy-Making
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research's Policies for International Cooperation in Sustainability Research
This book focuses on German science policy for cooperation with the Global South, arguing that instead of global sustainability, policies mainly aspire to German economic benefits.
The Techno-Apparatus of Bodily Production
A New Materialist Theory of Technology and the Body
What is needed is a story of bodily agency and technological failure instead of the same old tales of the disciplining of the body through science and technology.