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In the twenty-first century, the production and use of scientific knowledge is more regulated, commercialized, and participatory than at any other time in history. The stakes in understanding these changes are high for scientist and nonscientist alike: they challenge traditional ideas of intellectual work and property and have the potential to remake legal and professional boundaries and transform the practice of research. A critical examination of the structures of power and inequality these changes hinge upon, this book explores the implications for human health, democratic society, and the environment.

Science --- Sciences --- Social aspects. --- Aspect social --- Sociology of knowledge

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This issue of Political power and social theory explores the changes in science associated with the rise of neoliberalism since the 1970s. The neoliberalization of science has complicated interactions among states, markets, and civil society, often in ways that challenge major assumptions underlying decades of research. The articles collected here break with older Mertonian sociologies of science and constructivist micro-sociologies of scientific knowledge to examine the meso-level problem of the changing institutional contexts of the scientific field as originally identified by Pierre Bourdieu. Papers presented in Part I extend Bourdieús relational approach to the broader set of interactions among scientific, regulatory, industry, and social movement fields. Part II extends Bourdieu's concern with order and the scientific habitus to the changing patterns of scientific practices under neoliberalism. By reconceptualizing the central problem for the social studies of science as the political sociological problem of field and inter-field dynamics, the collected papers chart an important theoretical agenda for future research in the study of science-society relations.

Comparative government. --- International relations --- Neoliberalism. --- Methodology. --- Neo-liberalism --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- International relations -- Methodology. --- Political science -- Philosophy. --- Political science. --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Sciences - General --- Liberalism --- Political science --- Political Science --- Political science & theory. --- Political ideologies. --- Society & social sciences. --- Science and state --- Science --- Pesticides. --- Climatology. --- Nutrition. --- Hydraulic fracturing. --- General. --- Social aspects. --- Fracking (Engineering) --- Fracturing, Hydraulic --- Hydrofracking --- Hydraulic engineering --- Rock mechanics --- Alimentation --- Food --- Nutrition --- Health --- Physiology --- Diet --- Dietetics --- Digestion --- Food habits --- Malnutrition --- Climate --- Climate science --- Climate sciences --- Science of climate --- Atmospheric science --- Economic poisons --- Agricultural chemicals --- Pests --- Poisons --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Science and society --- Sociology of science --- Science policy --- State and science --- Health aspects --- Control --- Equipment and supplies --- Government policy

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Residues offers readers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation. Environmental protection regimes tend to be highly segmented according to place, media, substance, and effect; academic scholarship often reflects this same segmented approach. Yet, in chemical substances we encounter phenomena that are at once voluminous and miniscule, singular and ubiquitous, regulated yet unruly. Inspired by recent studies of materiality and infrastructures, we introduce "residual materialism" as a framework for attending to the socio-material properties of chemicals and their world-making powers. Tracking residues through time, space, and understanding helps us see how the past has been built into our present chemical environments and future-oriented regulatory systems, why contaminants seem to always evade control, and why the Anthropocene is as inextricably harnessed to the synthesis of carbon into new molecules as it is driven by carbon's combustion.

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Interdisciplinarity has become a buzzword in academia, as research universities funnel their financial resources toward collaborations between faculty in different disciplines. In theory, interdisciplinary collaboration breaks down artificial divisions between different departments, allowing more innovative and sophisticated research to flourish. But does it actually work this way in practice? Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration puts the common beliefs about such research to the test, using empirical data gathered by scholars from the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. The book's contributors critically interrogate the assumptions underlying the fervor for interdisciplinarity. Their attentive scholarship reveals how, for all its potential benefits, interdisciplinary collaboration is neither immune to academia's status hierarchies, nor a simple antidote to the alleged shortcomings of disciplinary study. Chapter 10 is available Open Access here (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK395883)

Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge. --- Interdisciplinary approach in education. --- Interdisciplinary research. --- IDR (Research) --- Research, Interdisciplinary --- Integrated curriculum --- Interdisciplinarity in education --- Interdisciplinary studies --- Transdisciplinary research --- Research --- Curriculum planning --- Holistic education --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Methodology --- Science and the humanities --- Wissen --- Interdisziplinäre Forschung --- EDUCATION / General. --- Fächerübergreifende Forschung --- Forschung --- Interdisziplinarität --- Transdisziplinarität --- Kenntnis --- Kenntnisse --- Erkenntnis --- Wissensproduktion --- Fächerübergreifende Forschung --- Interdisziplinarität --- Transdisziplinarität --- interdisciplinarity; collaboration