Embodying Technoscience

Introduction

The intersection between the spaces of embodiment and the spaces of technoscience is a rich arena for historical and contemporary research interested in the ways bodies are produced by, but also produce, the spaces and practices of technoscience. A focus on embodiment raises questions about the role of place in knowing and constituting bodies - and thus to questions of the identity and agency of bodies - and the relations between different bodies in different spaces - and thus to questions of difference and justice, which are of particular interest to critical science scholars and geographers.

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The Papers

Bolton, T. (2005) ‘Never Volunteer for Anything: the concept of the volunteer in Human Experimentation During the Cold War’ University of Sussex Journal of Contemporary History 9

Cussins, C. (1996) ‘Ontological Choreography: Agency through Objectification in Infertility Clinics’, Social Studies of Science 8: 575-610.

Davies, G. (2006) ‘Patterning the geographies of organ transplantation: corporeality, generosity and justice’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 31(3): 257–271.

Haraway, D. (1997) ‘The Virtual Speculum in the New World’ in D. Haraway, Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan©_Meets_OncMouse™: Feminism and Technoscience (London: Routledge): 173-212.

Stassart, P. & Whatmore, S. (2003) ‘Metabolising risk: food scares and the un/re-making of Belgian beef’, Environment and Planning A 35(3): 449–462.

Urry, J. (2002) ‘Mobility and Proximity’, Sociology 36(2): 255-274.

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