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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.
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.
The Transformation of Humanities Education
The Case of Norway 1960-2000 from a Systems-Theoretical Perspective
This first comprensive study of humanities education in Norway uses systems theory in innovative ways to analyze its changing societal functions.
Where the Everyday Begins
A Study of Environment and Everyday Life
Environment precedes everyday life. Therefore, society is an environmental phenomenon, and it must be examined as such.
How Genes Matter
Genetic Medicine as Subjectivisation Practices
Understanding how genetic factors contribute to who we are requires a broader analysis of genetic medicine as a social practice.
Peter Weingart
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Britta Padberg
(eds.)
University Experiments in Interdisciplinarity
Obstacles and Opportunities
Some recent structural reforms in Western universities reflect fundamental changes in the organization of knowledge production and teaching. This publication wants to take a fresh look at the meaning given to the concept of interdisciplinarity with these reforms.