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An examination, by a diverse field of experts, of Pickering's mangle theory and its applicability (or lack thereof) beyond the limited cases he presented in the seminal book that introduced this theory.
"Andrew Pickering is a major figure in the field of science studies. In the original, widely cited and widely admired but still controversial "The Mangle of Practice," he developed a number of important concepts that are strongly resonant for many members of the current generation of scholars, researchers, and theorists in the social sciences and humanities. This new, very substantial,…mehr

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An examination, by a diverse field of experts, of Pickering's mangle theory and its applicability (or lack thereof) beyond the limited cases he presented in the seminal book that introduced this theory.
"Andrew Pickering is a major figure in the field of science studies. In the original, widely cited and widely admired but still controversial "The Mangle of Practice," he developed a number of important concepts that are strongly resonant for many members of the current generation of scholars, researchers, and theorists in the social sciences and humanities. This new, very substantial, highly readable collection will be illuminating for readers interested in science studies, post-humanist approaches to ethical-pragmatic issues, and/or new directions in ontology."--Barbara Herrnstein Smith, author of "Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth, and the Human "
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Autorenporträt
Andrew Pickering is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Exeter. He is the author of The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science and Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics and the editor of Science as Practice and Culture. Keith Guzik is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bloomfield College in Bloomfield, New Jersey.