Journal
SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE
Volume 41, Issue 1, Pages 85-106Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0306312710380301
Keywords
care; constructivism; feminist thought; knowledge politics; 'matters of concern'
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- European Commission [MOIF-CT-2005-22363]
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This paper aims to encourage an ethos of care in the study of science and technology. It starts with a reading of Bruno Latour's notion of 'matters of concern' as favouring an awareness of the ethico-political effects of constructivist accounts in STS. Introducing attention to concern brings us closer to a notion of care. However, there is a 'critical' edge to care that Latour's politics of things tends to disregard. Drawing upon feminist knowledge politics, I propose to treat matters of fact and sociotechnical assemblages as 'matters of care' and argue that engaging with care requires a speculative commitment to neglected things.
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