Soziologie der Geschlechterkritik

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Hutzler
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
Critical Practice ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Critical Practices

This case study examines queer–feminist critique of gender differences and asks how gender categorisation is handled in this critical practice. Conceptually, the study develops the perspective of the sociology of gender critique, in which both traditional gender arrangements and critique of them are understood as contingent social phenomena. The fact that the investigation in this case encounters a field strongly shaped by academic discourse is taken as an opportunity to reflect on academic knowledge production: How do gender-critical practices inside and outside academia co-produce the very phenomena they criticise?

scholarly journals Tensions of evaluating innovation in a living lab: Moving beyond actionable knowledge production

Evaluation ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 135638902199784
Author(s):  
Rianne Dekker ◽  
Karin Geuijen ◽  
Caroline Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Academic Learning ◽  
Actionable Knowledge ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Policy Context ◽  
Learning Evaluation ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Policy Problems

Generative experimentation is increasingly used in public policymaking, especially in response to wicked policy problems. A policy solution is refined within its context and informed by feedback from its users. Studies reporting on these approaches, however, rarely consider the role of evaluation and the nature and goals of knowledge produced. This article addresses evaluation in such contexts. We present a case study of a living lab that combined theory-driven and developmental evaluation, and, responding to contradictory pressures, aimed to generate both actionable and academic knowledge to improve asylum seeker reception. We describe how we addressed these diverging demands and the resulting tensions in a politically charged and substantively insecure policy context. We conclude that evaluation should be an explicit part of the broader design concept, and while generative experimenting can produce actionable learning, evaluation should also aim for academic learning, in a manner that is both democratic and robust.

scholarly journals Agindo do chão: análise do uso de sementes crioulas a partir de uma “sociologia relacionista”

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Lucas Saliba de Paula
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Technical Developments ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

A partir de um estudo de caso sobre o manejo agroecológico de sementes crioulas, propomos uma discussão em torno das potencialidades epistemológicas e políticas do que denominamos “sociologia relacionista”. Defendemos que tal perspectiva proporciona análises imanentes e anti-essencialistas tanto dos fenômenos sociais quanto da tecnologia e de suas transformações.  Argumentamos ainda que o relacionismo permite analisar os objetos técnicos enquanto processos abertos, frutos de um conjunto de regulações governamentais, interesses de mercado e dinâmicas tecnocientíficas, mas também sujeitos a agenciamentos por parte de sujeitos não-especialistas que propõem formas mais democráticas e participativas de produção de conhecimento e de desenvolvimentos sociotécnicos através de movimentos de “cidadania tecnocientífica”.Palavras-Chave: relacionismo, cidadania tecnocientífica, agroecologia, sementes crioulas.Based on a case study on the agroecological cultivation of native seeds, we propose a discussion about the epistemological and political potentialities of what we call “relationist sociology”. We demonstrate that such a perspective provides immanent and anti-essentialist analyzes of social phenomena and sociotechnical dynamics. We also argue that this perspective allows us to analyze technical objects as open processes, as the results of governmental regulations, market interests and technoscientific dynamics, but also subject to assemblages by non-specialists actor who propose democratic and participatory forms of knowledge production and socio-technical developments through movements of “techno-scientific citizenship”.Keywords: Relationism, technoscientific citizenship, agroecology, native seeds.

scholarly journals Curriculum Theory and the Welfare State

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Benjamin Justice
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Curriculum Theory ◽  
Civic Identity ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Policing Strategy ◽  
Parallel Play

How do states make citizens? The question is as old as states themselves. Surprisingly, however, the approaches to answering it have emerged as a form of parallel play, uncoordinated (and poorly understood) across fields. This essay attempts to reconcile disparate realms of social research that address the question. The first, curriculum theory, grows out of educational research that for a century has focused almost exclusively on schools, schooling, and intentional settings for academic knowledge transmission. The second realm draws primarily on research from psychology, sociology, and political science to look empirically for effects of exposure to particular kinds of social phenomena. These include, but are not exclusive to, public institutions and policies. This essay begins by developing a mainstream conception of curriculum theory. It then compares and contrasts social science traditions that engage questions related to the state’s role in civic identity formation. Finally, it offers a case study on New York City’s controversial policing strategy known as Stop, Question, and Frisk, exploring how curriculum theory (developed in the context of mass schooling) can be a useful framework for understanding the educational features of a distinct social policy.

Active Coeliac: Disassembling Gluten and Coeliac Disease

Somatechnics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 188-205
Author(s):  
Sofia Varino
Keyword(s):  
Coeliac Disease ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Food Additive ◽  
Gluten Free ◽  
Biomedical Knowledge ◽  
Dietary Practices ◽  
Object A ◽  
Scientific Knowledge Production ◽  
New Materialisms

This article follows the trajectories of gluten in the context of Coeliac disease as a gastrointestinal condition managed by lifelong adherence to a gluten-free diet. Oriented by the concept of gluten as an actant (Latour), I engage in an analysis of gluten as a participant in volatile relations of consumption, contact, and contamination across coeliac eating. I ask questions about biomedical knowledge production in the context of everyday dietary practices alongside two current scientific research projects developing gluten-degrading enzymes and gluten-free wheat crops. Following the new materialisms of theorists like Elizabeth A. Wilson, Jane Bennett, Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour, I approach gluten as an alloy, an impure object, a hybrid assemblage with self-organizing and disorganizing capacity, not entirely peptide chain nor food additive, not only allergen but also the chewy, sticky substance that gives pizza dough its elastic, malleable consistency. Tracing the trajectories of gluten, this article is a case study of the tricky, slippery capacity of matter to participate in processes of scientific knowledge production.

Potential impacts of slum urbanisation on channel bank storage in the Bang Pakong River, Thailand

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Harriden
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Balance Equations ◽  
Physical Processes ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
Recharge Rates ◽  
Water Quality Deterioration ◽  
Informal Urban Settlements ◽  
Storage Processes

Generally regarded as social phenomena, this paper regards slum urbanisation as an environmental actor. Specifically, how slum developments modify hydrogeomorphological processes motivates this research. Using the Bang Pakong River, eastern Thailand, as a case study, a literature review was conducted. The literature reviewed indicated changes in physical processes such as channel bank stability, water quality, flow regimes and the hydrological balance equations can occur with slum development. Given the importance of channel banks as the physical basis of many slum sites, this paper focuses on the possible changes to channel bank storage in the Bang Pakong River following slum urbanisation. The research highlights possible changes to channel bank storage processes, notably decreased storage recharge rates; increased anthropogenic extraction; and probable water quality deterioration. Deeper scientific understanding of how river processes are affected by specific forms of urban development can contribute to better management of both informal urban settlements and rivers.

Academic knowledge production and prefigurative politics

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (267-268) ◽  
pp. 163-167
Author(s):  
Beatriz P. Lorente
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Structural Characteristic ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Peer Review Process ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Means And Ends ◽  
Sociology Of Language ◽  
Prefigurative Politics ◽  
Access Model

Abstract Inequality is the pervasive structural characteristic of academic knowledge production. To dismantle this inequality, the challenge raised by prefigurative politics which is based on an ethos of congruence between means and ends must be taken up by the International Journal of the Sociology of Language. The IJSL’s peer review process, its academic conventions and its access model can potentially be spaces for concrete practices that prefigure parity in academic knowledge production.

Slow scholarship for social work: A praxis of resistance and creativity

2021 ◽  
pp. 147332502199086
Author(s):  
Stéphanie Wahab ◽  
Gita R Mehrotra ◽  
Kelly E Myers
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Relational Ontology ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Useful Knowledge ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Rapid Production ◽  
Time Frames

Expediency, efficiency, and rapid production within compressed time frames represent markers for research and scholarship within the neoliberal academe. Scholars who wish to resist these practices of knowledge production have articulated the need for Slow scholarship—a slower pace to make room for thinking, creativity, and useful knowledge. While these calls are important for drawing attention to the costs and problems of the neoliberal academy, many scholars have moved beyond “slow” as being uniquely referencing pace and duration, by calling for the different conceptualizations of time, space, and knowing. Guided by post-structural feminisms, we engaged in a research project that moved at the pace of trust in the integrity of our ideas and relationships. Our case study aimed to better understand the ways macro forces such as neoliberalism, criminalization and professionalization shape domestic violence work. This article discusses our praxis of Slow scholarship by showcasing four specific key markers of Slow scholarship in our research; time reimagined, a relational ontology, moving inside and towards complexity, and embodiment. We discuss how Slow scholarship complicates how we understand constructs of productivity and knowledge production, as well as map the ways Slow scholarship offers a praxis of resistance for generating power from the epistemic margins within social work and the neoliberal academy.

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