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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
In this commentary, Kristin Asdal reflects on pragmatism as one of the methodological touchstones of Science, technology and society (STS). In its focus on practices, pragmatist STS can be prone to falling into a problematic ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
What produces the power of senior civil servants at ministries of finance, positioned at the top of the bureaucratic hierarchy? Max Weber has claimed that a hierarchical organization, meritocratic recruitment and procedural ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The ‘blue economy’ has in recent years become a leading concept for envisioning what may come after the fossil-based era. In efforts at calculating the potential economic value of the ocean, policy-oriented documents seek ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Ordinary political institutions such as parliaments remain under-explored in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and the conceptual resources for studying politics are far less developed than for science. But sites like ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Social studies of science have for many years analyzed and demonstrated the key role of experiments to science and the making of facts. But what is the role of experiments in market work? And what, if anything, can we learn ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Abstract Across Europe and the OECD, the bioeconomy is promoted as that which will succeed the carbon economy: an economy based in ‘the bio’ that will be innovative, sustainable, responsible and environmentally friendly. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
One of the major merits to Keith Tribe’s new introduction and translation of Weber’s Economy and Society is to re-place Weber, taking him out of the firm grasp of (American) sociology and releasing him onto alternative ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This chapter aims to present an overview of how anthropologists study bureaucracy and why that approach has value to the World Bank and its interlocutors. Anthropologists are most commonly associated with immersive ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)