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Exploring the Intersection of Bodies and Technologies in Social Theory and Science and Technology Studies: An Introduction
No full textIn our contemporary technology-driven societies, every aspect of life connected to our bodies — such as birth, reproduction, sexuality, gender, and aging — is profoundly influenced by technoscientific advances. The body is no longer a fixed entity but a dynamic battleground, constantly reshaped by technologies. This compelling book delves into the evolving interface between human bodies and technoscience, exploring themes like technoscientific imaginaries, the cyborg concept, bodily transformations through technologies, datification, and biomedicalization. Approaching these topics from a Science and Technology Studies (STS) perspective, the book poses essential questions about the relationship between technology and the body: What are the consequences of our increasingly mutable physicality? What analytical frameworks can we use to study this ever-changing, hybrid body? How does STS help us understand the material and discursive construction of corporeality through technoscience? And how do our bodies, in turn, help shape the very nature of technoscience?
This book is of interest for scholars and students in Science and Technology Studies (STS), Sociology of the Body, and Social Theory, offering fresh insights into the crucial interplay between scientific knowledge, technology, and bodily experience. It invites readers to reconsider the essential questions regarding the interplay between technoscience and corporeality
Assunta Viteritti (2010), "Lo scienziato è un narratore", in Vol 1, No 2 TECNOSCIENZA. ITALIAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY STUDIES. Nr.2, http://www.tecnoscienza.net/index.php/tsj/issue/current/showToc
No full textRivista internazional on line open access http://www.tecnoscienza.net/index.php/tsj/issue/view/17/showToc
The debate on the narrative of science featured on these pages draws on the 4th STS Italia Seminar on “Reporting and Describing Technoscience”, which was held on June 18, 2010 at the University of Milan. Starting from that seminar, Elena Cattaneo – the person in charge of the Stem Cell Research Laboratory and Neurodegenerative Disease Centre of the University of Milan – talks about her career and life story, and describes the daily management of laboratory, people, events and objects. She also recounts her experience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, focusing on the significant role of technologies, her involvement with the stem cell research, and the application of this research to the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. She talks about her ethical and political commitment as a scientist, and describes her work as a coordinator of international networks. Lastly, she reflects on the relationship between scientific research and social sciences. Assunta Viteritti’s analysis focuses on how scientists report their research practice. Starting from Elena Cattaneo’s account, she recalls self- narratives by other scientists and proposes a reflection on the social construction of scientists’ narratives
Recensione del Volume: Kaiser D. (2005), Pedagogy and the Practice of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, in Scuola Democratica, Learning for Democracy, n. 2 nuova serie, Giugno 2011, pp. 197-20, ISBN 978-88-6250-322-8
No full text"It's the body (that does it)! The production of knowledge through body in scientific learning practice". Scandinavian Journal of Management, 29(4), 367-376. Part of special issue: Body, Senses and Knowing in Organization Edited by Silvia Gherardi, Meriläinen Susan, Strati Antonio, Valtonen Anu. ISSN: 0956-5221 DOI -10.1016/j.scaman.2013.09.002
No full textThe article focuses on the scientist's body with the aim of analyzing how knowledge is produced by the body in scientific practice. This process is mediated by links and interactions with the sociomaterial dimension of working practices and may be defined as a learning process. The paper investigates how mastery of the body is produced, perceived, defined and narrated by researchers engaged in laboratory practice. The paper shows how the scientist's corporeal Learning is gradual, the fruit of daily disciplining, and it is only through a process of embodiment that the body develops sensitive ability and expert competency. The article includes three episodes of knowledge embodiment in the form of immersion in practice and ex-post reflection on the practice itself. (c) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.The article focuses on the scientist’s body with the aim of analyzing how knowledge is produced by the body in scientific practice. This process is mediated by links and interactions with the sociomaterial dimension of working practices and may be defined as a learning process. The paper investigates how mastery of the body is produced, perceived, defined and narrated by researchers engaged in laboratory practice. The paper shows how the scientist’s corporeal learning is gradual, the fruit of daily disciplining, and it is only through a process of embodiment that the body develops sensitive ability and expert competency. The article includes three episodes of knowledge embodiment in the form of immersion in practice and ex-post reflection on the practice itself
"Corpi sapienti in laboratorio. Apprendere la tecnoscienza in pratica tra disciplinamento e formatività"
No full textFollowing the STS theoretical perspective, the paper focuses on how, in a research laboratory specialized in stem cell research, daily working practices are learnt through researchers' acquisition of corporeal knowledge. Through observation of the working practices, the paper examines how the body learns and is perceived and related by the participants. Using a narrative approach, we observe and describe how the body learns some crucial processes relative to laboratory practice. By adopting the corporeal graduality of learning as a reference framework, we closely followed some scientists in various moments of their learning practices. The practices outlined in the paper distill the pre-reflective and perceptive experience of the novice from that of the beginner, which is more tactile, physical, incorporated and aware, and that of the expert, which is assimilated, self-reflective and a posteriori
Identità e competenze: soggettività e professionalità nella vita sociale contemporanea
No full textIl volume si colloca nella scia dei dibattiti delle scienze sociali che guardano alla formazione delle identità individuali in relazione alle trasformazioni socio-culturali contemporanee. Accanto alla proposta teorica sulla relazione tra identità e competenze vengono esposti cinque casi di studio su gruppi professionali impegnati in processi organizzativi in profondo mutamento. Il testo illustra, quindi, dal punto di vista teorico ed empirico, come si coniugano i processi di costruzione delle identità individuali con quelli dell'identità professionale.The book combine different sociological approachs to investigate, both teoretically and empirically, the relation between identity and competencies in the different professional field
Assunta Viteritti, (2011) Recensione del volume: Sophie Houdart, La cour des miracles: Ethnologie d'un laboratoire japonais, 2008, CNRS Éditions, pp. 351, in TECNOSCIENZA: Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, Vol 2, No 1 (2011), http://www.tecnoscienza.net/index.php/tsj/article/view/70 ISSN 2038-3460
No full textLa costruzione dell’Identità in un distretto industriale: il biomedicale di Mirandola
No full textL'articolo illustra le competenze e le indentità di rete che si attivano nella storia del distretto industriale biomedicale di Mirandola
Sperimentatori alla ricerca dell'Autonomia. Il caso del liceo sperimentale Lode
No full textL'articolo illustra la messa in pratica, in un contesto scolastico, delle innovazioni introdotte con l'Autoniomia scolastica. La messa in pratica delle innovazioni si configura come un processo locale di traduzione di marco politiche educative
Divenire Rete. Storia attori ed oggetti nella costruzione di una rete di scuole
No full textL'articolo illustra le pratiche di networking delle scuole nell'ampito della traduzione locale delle politiche dell'autono9mia scolastica. Le scuole producono innovazione attraverso pratiche di rete allestite nei territori anche in collaborazione con associazioni ed enti locali
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