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Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Political Epistemologies of Promise

Sub-Theme Leaders: Joan Haran and Maureen McNeil

At Cesagen we:

• identify and track the circuits and dynamics of genomic imaginaries
• map and interrogate the conceptual use of ‘imaginaries’ in Science and Technology Studies
• draw on the sociology of expectations, political economy, media and cultural studies to analyse the hopes and fears, as well as the promises and expectations which are generated around technoscientific innovation
• investigate the generation of distinctions between scientific facts and fictions by examining how scientific imaginaries are mediated through a constellation of factual and fictive genres ranging from scientific journal articles to Hollywood films

Animal Biotechnology as a liberatory imaginary
Richard Twine

Barcoding Nature: Shifting taxonomic practices in an age of biodiversity loss
Claire Waterton

Biopiracy in Peru: Tracing Biopiracies, Theft, Loss & Traditional Knowledge (PhD Thesis)
Jodie Chapell

Bringing Standards to Life in Contemporary Biology
Adrian Mackenzie, Rebecca Ellis, Claire Waterton, Ruth McNally

Experimentality
Bronislaw Szerszynski

Feminism and Critique
Maureen McNeil

Genome Wide Association Studies
Adrian Mackenzie

Imaginaries: Mapping the conceptual terrain of STS’s uses of the concept
Maureen McNeil, Joan Haran, Michael Arribas-Ayllon, Adrian Mackenzie, Larry Reyn

Living Data: Making sense of health biosensors
Adrian Mackenzie, Celia Roberts and Maggie Mort

Multiplication of Databases and Sets
Adrian Mackenzie

Next Generation Bio-fuels
Adrian Mackenzie

Popular Memoirs and Genomics
Maureen McNeil

Revealing the Animal-Industrial Complex – Shame, Method and Critical Animal Studies
Richard Twine

Standards: Recipes for Reality
Professor Lawrence Busch

Technolife
Adrian Mackenzie, Kristrún Gunnarsdóttir and Brian Wynne

The Gendering of Biographical Writing and the History of Genetics
Maureen McNeil

Accounting for Knowledge of Genetics and Cloning in Mass Observation
Joan Haran

Genetic Fictions: Genes, Gender and Genre
Joan Haran

ICT Ethics
Kristrún Gunnarsdóttir, Paul McCarthy, Ruth Chadwick

The HFEA, ART Markets and Public Consultation
Joan Haran

The Imagined Transition to a Green Capitalism
Bronislaw Szerszynski and Larry Reynolds

The Publics of Bioscience
Joan Haran; Maureen McNeil