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OverviewThis book is based on six years of ethnographic research and documentary analysis carried out by the authors, on changing contemporary practices in the identification and the classification of natural species. It assumes from the outset that the practices of knowing nature observed cannot be disentangled from social, economic and political processes relating to the making and application of global biodiversity knowledge. The research has observed and documented a notable shift within taxonomy towards a genomics-inspired global production and mobilisation of taxonomic knowledge for specified 'biodiversity' knowledge-actors, users and publics. This shift has introduced a series of innovations in the way that taxonomy is practised, innovations that are at once technological, social and political, and interdependent with the development of molecular and digital technologies in parallel domains. These innovatory practices and technologies are most clearly brought together in the efforts to 'DNA barcode life' (under the auspices of organisations such as the Consortium for the BarCoding of Life (CBOL)). Three main themes/questions structure the way the chapters are presented. I. Challenges and opportunities for innovation in the technosciences II. Globalisation and Technoscientific cultures. III. The geneticisation and digitisation of life. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Claire Waterton (University of Lancaster, UK) , Rebecca Ellis (University of Lancaster, UK) , Brian Wynne (University of Lancaster, UK)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.570kg ISBN: 9780415554794ISBN 10: 0415554799 Pages: 212 Publication Date: 23 April 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. DNA Barcoding: Revolution or Conciliation? 3. What’s In a Barcode? The Use, Selection and De-Naturalisation of Genetic Markers 4. A Leg Away for DNA: Mobilizing, Compiling and Purifying Material for DNA Barcoding 5. Extending the Barcoding Frontier 6. Archiving Diversity: BOLD 7. BOLI as Redemptive Technoscientific Innovation 8. What Is It? Identifying Nature and Valuing Utility 9. Barcoding Nature: Final ReflectionsReviewsAuthor InformationClaire Waterton is Senior Lecturer in Environment and Public Policy at the Centre for the Study for Environmental Change within the Sociology Department of Lancaster University, UK. Her research interests are sociology/anthropology/cultural studies of science; the relationship of scientific knowledge to contemporary environmental policymaking; classifications of nature; and public perceptions of environmental issues and environmental risks. She has been recipient of research grants from the UK Economic and Social Research Council, the UK Natural Environment Research Council and the US Social Science Research Council and has collaborated in research with bodies such as the World Wildlife Fund, UK Government, English Nature, and the European Union. She is co-editor of the book Nature Performed: Environment, Culture and Performance (Blackwell, 2003) as well as having contributed numerous articles to scholarly journals including Society and Space, Science and Public Policy, and Social Studies of Science. Rebecca Ellis Research associate working both in CSEC and CESAGen in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University in the UK. She has been the main researcher for 3 interdisciplinary research projects over the last 5 years, all of which focus on different dimensions relating to knowledge making for biodiversity. Her specific research interest lies in the practices and dynamics of epistemic and social inclusion at the interface of local knowledge and policymaking. The research project in which she is currently involved explores the implications for taxonomic, policy and public communities, of recent drives to molecularise and digitise taxonomy in the form of 'DNA barcoding'. Her previous research in the UK explored the harnessing of volunteer naturalist knowledge for biodiversity policy. She comes from a disciplinary background of Social Anthropology and her doctorate draws upon the anthropology of the emotions and the body as a way of understanding an Amazonian society's understandings of human-human and human--nonhuman socialities. Brian Wynne is an international figure in the sociology of scientific knowledge and Associate Director of the ESRC funded research Centre CESAGen (Lancaster). His work has covered technology and risk assessment, public attitudes to science and technology and what are called risk issues, and public understanding of science, focusing on the relations between expert cultures, lay knowledge, and policy processes. His sociology of scientific risk knowledges has integrated SSK with new understandings of public responses and attitudes, through providing a new understanding of the unacknowledged contingencies underlying scientific risk assessments. Professor Wynne has contributed both at academic and policy level on the issue of 'Green Genomics' -- for example genetic modification and its relevance to environmental issues and concerns. He has pursued this vein of research in several policy settings - including as Member of the Management Board and Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency, (EEA), (1994-2000), member of the Royal Society's Science in Society advisory committee (2000-2005), Special Adviser to the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee Inquiry into Science and Society, (March 2000), and Chair of the European Commission's Expert Working Group on Science and Society. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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