Pub Date : 2025-07-21DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2025.2531747
Ruth Falkenberg, Lisa Sigl, Maximilian Fochler
Relevant research in a longer-term perspective is not result of a one-point intervention and re-direction of research to address social-environmental problems. Rather, for a research field to stay relevant to social-environmental issues, researchers and their communities need to continually engage in what we conceptualise as orientation work. Contrary to the notion of an invisible hand governing science in self-organised ways, the notion of orientation work offers a novel conceptual perspective on changes in research direction in the sense of caring for relevance, defined as open-ended, responsive, and collective process. Orientation work requires certain conditions of possibility and attention to value-based questions. The case of soil carbon research illustrates how orientation work can prevent research fields from getting stuck on paths that have (partly) lost their relevance. Slowly emerging in the 2000s, promises that carbon sequestration in soils could make substantial contributions to mitigate the climate crisis have generated much attention and, consequently, research funding and institutional support. Particularly with regard to responding to the climate crisis however, researchers have started to question the strong prioritisation of studying soil carbon within their research field, calling for reflections on its social-environmental relevance. Debates within soil carbon research provide evidence how orientation work on the level of research communities (besides other levels of research governance) can play an important role in addressing social-environmental problems.
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Pub Date : 2025-05-05DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2025.2491342
Emma Garnett
Air pollution knowledge practices are rapidly changing in science and policy research because of growing awareness of its harmful effects on environmental and human health. Informed by developments in environmental epigenetics and exposomics, a turn to the body is now evident, which includes generating more granular data to define individual disease risks and specify personal health interventions. By turning their attention towards the body, scientific researchers are also zeroing in on the contexts and conditions of exposure, and how living environments impact air's toxicity. Evidence shows air pollution can contribute to the development of asthma. It is not just episodes of high levels of air pollution that matter but its sources, the timing of exposure, and accumulative effects. The knowledge practices of air pollution science are therefore useful sites for exploring how air pollution is entangled within the powerful systems and political economies that enact it. The recent monitoring of asthmatic bodies (rather than environments) with wearable sensors are informing knowledge about how and when exposure happens and is particularly harmful. Yet this more contextual, practical knowledge is often disregarded because the primary focus is on generating more data. By centring the 'sensing body' - which highlights the spaces, times and social practices of exposure that contribute to and worsen asthma - scientific studies can generate more critical analyses of air pollution that are relevant for guiding actions to prevent harm.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-29DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2024.2393104
Erika Szymanski
The ongoing digitization of biological life rests in part on the idea of genetic information being contained in genetic texts written in the four-letter language of DNA. Genetic text metaphors have...
正在进行的生物生命数字化在一定程度上依赖于这样一种观点，即遗传信息包含在以 DNA 四字母语言书写的遗传文本中。基因文本的隐喻有...
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Pub Date : 2024-08-27DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2024.2381002
David Dumoulin Kervran, Jérôme Lamy, Jan Verlin
Deserts, tropical forests, high mountains, and polar areas, have shaped the history of science. They serve not only as sites for field research and expeditions but also as territories where imperia...
沙漠、热带森林、高山和极地塑造了科学的历史。它们不仅是野外研究和探险的场所，也是帝国统治者的领地。
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Pub Date : 2024-08-27DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2024.2393715
John W. Elrick
In an effort to remain relevant as meaningful civic institutions under the dynamic socio-technical conditions of contemporary capitalism, participatory museums have adopted commercial technologies,...
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Pub Date : 2024-08-22DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2024.2393096
David Young, Niall Docherty
In recent years, the aerospace engineering corporation SpaceX has been a vocal – and perhaps the foremost – contributor to the recent repopularisation of a discourse proposing the colonisation of M...
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Pub Date : 2024-08-22DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2024.2393723
Elicia Mayuri Cousins
After the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident, one way that government authorities sought to quell public anxiety about the health impacts of radiation exposure was through the creation of the Fukushim...
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Pub Date : 2024-07-29DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2024.2375208
Silvia Casini, Paolo Magaudda, Federico Neresini
The Rassegna Internazionale del film Scientifico-didattico (International Festival of Scientific and Educational Film [IFSEF]) was a pioneering science-based public event held at the University of ...
国际科学与教育电影节（Rassegna Internazionale del film Scientifico-didattico，简称 IFSEF）是一项以科学为基础的开创性公共活动，在 ...
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Pub Date : 2024-06-27DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2024.2361867
Gloria Baigorrotegui, Colombina Schaeffer
The agency of animals in technoscience has been much debated in science and technology studies, animal studies, and environmental collective action studies. In particular, the prominence of animals...
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Pub Date : 2024-05-27DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2024.2352513
Jia Hui Lee
Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2024)
发表于《科学即文化》（2024 年提前出版）
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