The Mangle in Practice
Science, Society, and Becoming
1st Edition
Published on 14. January 2009
320 pages
978-0-8223-9010-7 (ISBN)
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An examination, by a diverse field of experts, of Pickering's mangle theory and its applicability (or lack thereof) beyond the limited cases he presented in the seminal book that introduced this theory.
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Andrew Pickering is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Exeter. He is the author of The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science and Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics and the editor of Science as Practice and Culture.Keith Guzik is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bloomfield College in Bloomfield, New Jersey.
Content
Preface / Andrew Pickering vii
New Ontologies / Andrew Pickering 1
Part One: Studies
A Choreography of Fire: A Posthumanist Account of Australians and Eucalypts / Adrian Franklin 17
Crate and Mangle: Questions of Agency in Confinement Livestock Facilities / Dawn Coppin 46
Soul Collectors: A Meditation on Arresting Domestic Violence / Keith Guzik 67
Resisting and Accommodating Thomas Sargent: Putting Rational Expectations Economics through the Mangle of Practice / Esther-Mirjam Sent 92
The Mangle of Practice and the Practice of Chinese Medicine: A Case Study from Nineteenth-Century China / Volker Scheid 110
Marup Church and the Politics of Hybridization: On Choice and Becoming / Casper Bruun Jensen and Randi Markussen 129
Part Two: Reflexivity
Going with the Flow: Living the Mangle through Environmental Management Practice / Lisa Asplen 163
A Manglish Way of Working: Agile Software Development / Brian Marick 185
The Docile Body of the Scientist / Yiannis Koutalos 202
Part Three: Theory
The Mangle of Practice or the Empire of Signs: Toward a Dialogue between Science Studies and Soviet Semiotics / Maxim Waldstein 221
Ontological Dance: A Dialogue between Heidegger and Pickering / Carol J. Steiner 243
References 267
About the Contributors 293
Index 297
New Ontologies / Andrew Pickering 1
Part One: Studies
A Choreography of Fire: A Posthumanist Account of Australians and Eucalypts / Adrian Franklin 17
Crate and Mangle: Questions of Agency in Confinement Livestock Facilities / Dawn Coppin 46
Soul Collectors: A Meditation on Arresting Domestic Violence / Keith Guzik 67
Resisting and Accommodating Thomas Sargent: Putting Rational Expectations Economics through the Mangle of Practice / Esther-Mirjam Sent 92
The Mangle of Practice and the Practice of Chinese Medicine: A Case Study from Nineteenth-Century China / Volker Scheid 110
Marup Church and the Politics of Hybridization: On Choice and Becoming / Casper Bruun Jensen and Randi Markussen 129
Part Two: Reflexivity
Going with the Flow: Living the Mangle through Environmental Management Practice / Lisa Asplen 163
A Manglish Way of Working: Agile Software Development / Brian Marick 185
The Docile Body of the Scientist / Yiannis Koutalos 202
Part Three: Theory
The Mangle of Practice or the Empire of Signs: Toward a Dialogue between Science Studies and Soviet Semiotics / Maxim Waldstein 221
Ontological Dance: A Dialogue between Heidegger and Pickering / Carol J. Steiner 243
References 267
About the Contributors 293
Index 297
