2011 Publications
Books
Institute Director Steve Rayner serves as Editor of the Science in Society Series from Earthscan.
The series aims to publish new high quality research, teaching, practical and policy-related books on topics that address the complex and vitally important interface between science and society.
Recent titles in the series include:
- Unnatural Selection: The Challenges of Engineering Tomorrow's People
Edited By Peter Healey and Steve Rayner - Business Planning for Turbulent Times: New Methods for Applying Scenarios
Edited By Rafael Ramirez, John W. Selsky and Kees van der Heijden
Forthcoming books in the series include:
- Dynamics of Disaster. Lessons on Risk, Response and Recovery
- The Politics of Asbestos. Understandings of Risk, Disease and Protest
- Integrating Science and Policy. Vulnerability and Resilience in Global Environmental Change
- Rationality and Ritual. Participation and Exclusion in Nuclear Decision-Making
Journal articles
- Neuhaus, F & Webmoor, T. (2011) 'Agile Ethics for Massified Research and Visualisation', Information, Communication and Society 2011, pp 1-23.
- Lezaun, J. (2011), 'Bees, beekeepers, and bureaucrats: parasitism and the politics of transgenic life'. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space advance online publication, doi:10.1068/d0510.
- Davies, W. (2011), 'Political Economy of Unhappiness' New Left Review, 71: 65-80.
- Davies, W. (2011) 'Economic advice as a vocation: symbioses of scientific and political authority'. The British Journal of Sociology, 62: 304–323. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2011.01366.x.
- Ravetz, J. (2011), 'Postnormal Science and the maturing of the structural contradictions of modern European science', Futures 43 (2011) 142–148
- Ravetz, J. (2011), '‘Climategate’ and the maturing of post-normal science', Futures 43 (2011) 149–157.
- Stampnitzky, L. (2011), ‘Disciplining an Unruly Field: Terrorism Studies and Theories of Scientific/Intellectual Production’, Qualitative Sociology.
