General Readings
*Jasanoff, Sheila, “Controversy Studies.” In Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. London: Oxford University Press, Forthcoming.
*Winner, Langdon. “Do Artifacts Have Politics?.” In The Whale and the Reactor, pp. 19-39. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
*Jasanoff, Sheila. “Back from the Brink: Truth and Trust in the Public Sphere.” Issues in Science and Technology XXXIII, no. 4 (2017).
Strongly Recommended
Jasanoff, Sheila. “Technologies of Humility: Citizen Participation in Governing Science.” Minerva 41, no. 3 (2003): 223–244.
Jasanoff, Sheila and Hilton Simmet. “No Funeral Bells: Public Reason in a ‘Post-Truth’ Age.” Social Studies of Science 47, no. 5 (2017): 751-770.
Monday, August 12th
Session 1: Classic Controversies
Matthew Bunn and Stephen Hilgartner
*Pfotenhauer, Sebastian M., Christopher F. Jones, Krishanu Saha, and Sheila Jasanoff. “Learning from Fukushima.” Issues in Science and Technology 28, no. 3 (2012): 79-84.
Recommended
Lyman, Edwin, Michael Schoeppner, and Frank von Hippel. “Nuclear safety regulation in the post-Fukushima era.” Science 356, no. 6340 (2017): 808-809.
Tuesday, August 13th
Session 2: Environmental Governance
Pierre-Benoit Joly and Sheila Jasanoff
*Bonneuil, Christophe, Pierre-Benoit Joly, and Claire Marris. “Disentrenching Experiment: The Construction of GM—Crop Field Trials as a Social Problem.” Science, Technology, & Human Values 33, no. 2 (2008): 201-229.
Session 3: Expertise in Law and Science
Sheila Jasanoff
*Jasanoff, Sheila. “Science, Common Sense & Judicial Power in US Courts.” Daedalus 147, no. 4 (2018): 15-27.
Aziza Ahmed
*Greenhouse, Linda. “The Supreme Court & Science: A Case in Point.” Daedalus 147, no. 4 (2018): 28-40.
Recommended
Texas Medical Providers Performing Abortion Services v. Lakey 667 F3d. 570(2012).
David Kennedy
*Kennedy, David. “Afterword.” In A World of Struggle: How Power, Law, and Expertise Shape Global Political Economy, pp 281-314. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018.
Recommended
Kennedy, David. “Law and the Global Dynamics of Distribution.” In A World of Struggle: How Power, Law, and Expertise Shape Global Political Economy, pp 171-217. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018.
Wednesday, August 14th
Session 4: Rule of Experts: Standards and their Failures
Lawrence Busch
*Busch, Lawrence. “The New Autocracy in Food and Agriculture.” In Ecology, Capitalism and the New Agricultural Economy: The Second Great Transformation, edited by G. Allaire and B. Daviron, pp. 95-109. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2018.
Recommended
Busch, Lawrence. “The Private Governance of Food: Equitable Exchange or Bizarre Bazaar?” Agriculture and Human Values 28, no. 3 (2011): 345-352.
Dan Danielsen
*Danielsen, Dan. “Beyond Corporate Governance: Why a New Approach to the Study of Corporate Law is Needed to Address Global Inequality and Economic Development.” In Research Handbook on Political Economy and Law, edited by U. Mattei and J. Haskell. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2015.
Recommended
Danielsen, Dan. “Situating Human Rights Approaches to Corporate Accountability in the Political Economy of Supply Chain Capitalism.” Forthcoming.
Thursday, August 15th
Session 5: Public Understanding and Democracy
Alondra Nelson and Ben Hurlbut
*Social Science Research Center. “To Secure Knowledge: Social Science Partnerships for the Common Good.” https://www.ssrc.org/to-secure-knowledge/.
Brice Laurent and Jack Stilgoe
*Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette. “Nanotechnology: A New Regime for the Public in Science?.” Scientiae Studia 10, no. SPE (2012): 85-94.
Recommended
Hariharan, Seeta. “A Warning for Cities: Become Citizen-Centric or Fail.” Smart Cities Dive. February 13, 2019.
Friday, August 16th
Session 7: Innovation, Risk and Responsibility
Clark Miller
*Barry-Jester, Anna Maria. “What Went Wrong in Flint.” FiveThirtyEight. January 26, 2016.
Recommended
Brand-Miller, Jennie, Janette Brand Miller, Kaye Foster-Powell, and Johanna Burani. “All About the Glycemic Index.” In The New Glucose Revolution Pocket Guide to Diabetes, pp. 29-48. New York: Marlowe, 2003.
Miller, Clark. “Knowledge and Democracy: The Epistemics of Self-Governance.” In Science and Democracy: Making Knowledge and Making Power in the Biosciences and Beyond, pp. 198-219. New York: Routledge, 2015.
Stephen Hilgartner
*Phelan et al., “Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Health Inequalities: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 51 (2010): S28-S40.
*Insurance Circular Letter No. 1 (2019), Department of Financial Services, “Use of External Consumer Data and Information Sources in Underwriting for Life Insurance.”
Jack Stilgoe
*Stilgoe, Jack. “Machine Learning, Social Learning and the Governance of Self-Driving Cars.” Social Studies of Science 48, no. 1 (2018): 25-56.
Recommended
Stilgoe, Jack. “Self-Driving Cars Will Take a While to Get Right.” Nature Machine Intelligence 1, no. 5 (2019): 202.
Additional Articles
A.M. Barry-Jester, “What Went Wrong in Flint,” FiveThirtyEight, January 26, 2016.
J.E. Bromwich, “Death of a Biohacker,” New York Times, May 19, 2018.
J. Donovan and B. Paris, “Beware the Cheapfakes,” Slate Magazine, June 12, 2019.
N. Gilbert, “GM crop escapes into the American wild,” Nature News, August 6, 2010.
Kingsbury, “In Trump I Trust,” New York Times, July 16, 2019.
N. Klein, “How science is telling us all to revolt,” New Statesmen, October 29, 2013.
J. Meek, “Somerdale to Skarbimierz,” London Review of Books, April 20, 2017.
K. Munger, “The Rise and Fall of the Palo Alto Consensus,” New York Times, July 10, 2019.
M. Sanger-Katz, “Income Inequality: It’s Also Bad for Your Health,” New York Times, March 30, 2015.
S. Saxe, “I’m an Engineer, and I’m Not Buying Into ‘Smart’ Cities,” New York Times, July 16, 2019.
I have come to appreciate that STS is a rich scholarly tradition on its own and not a generic name for studies of science & tech . . . I look forward to exploring the bodies of work in the STS literature.
Ekin, 2019 Participant