Science Studies and Activism Possibilities and Problems for Reconstructivist Agendas

摘要: Might a rapprochement be desirable and possible between the more academic activist wings of STS? What can each learn from other? A promising trajectory for this purpose may to reinterpret extend research in constructivist tradition, building on recent work that appears constitute beginnings reconstructivist scholarly tradition.Some necessary would explicitly prescriptive: given technology society are mutually reciprocally constructing, how should technologies constructed, which social groups deserve inclusion processes, closure reached? But other issues might taken up by scholars motivated exclusively curiosity, or intention subfield: what factors slow prevent emergence entire subfields technoscientific endeavour, as arguably has occurred with `green chemistry', `alternative health', alternatives weaponry-oriented national defence?Our is not prescrib...