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Science Interrupted: Rethinking Research Practice With Bureaucracy, Agroforestry, and Ethnography - Brossura

Mclellan, Timothy G.

 
9781501773334: Science Interrupted: Rethinking Research Practice With Bureaucracy, Agroforestry, and Ethnography
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ISBN 10: 150177333X ISBN 13: 9781501773334
Casa editrice: Cornell Univ Pr, 2024

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Science Interrupted examines how scientists in China pursue environmental sustainability within the constraints of domestic and international bureaucracies. Timothy G. McLellan offers a theoretical framework for analyzing the formal procedural work of Chinese bureaucracy—work that is overlooked when China scholars restrict their gaze to the informal and interpersonal channels through which bureaucracy is often navigated.

Homing in on an agroforestry research organization in southwest China, the author takes the experiences of the organization's staff in navigating diverse international funding regimes and authoritarian state institutions as entry points for understanding the pervasiveness of bureaucracy in contemporary science. He asks: What if we take the tools, sensibilities, and practices of bureaucracies seriously not only as objects of critique but as resources for re-thinking scientific practice?

Extending a mode of anthropological research in which ethnography serves as source of theory as well as source of data, Science Interrupted thinks with, and not only against, bureaucracy. McLellan shows that ethnographic engagement with bureaucracy enables us to imagine more democratic and more collaborative modes of scientific practice.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Timothy G. McLellan is a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology at Thammasat University. He has published articles in Social Studies of Science, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, and The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

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Editore
Cornell Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2024
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
150177333X
ISBN 13 
9781501773334
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
180
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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