Edited by
Soraya Boudia, Université Paris Cité, France.
Ashveen Peerbaye, Université Gustave Eiffel, France.
ISBN : 9781789451917
Publication Date : June 2025
Hardcover 290 pp
165.00 USD
Co-publisher
Science and technology profoundly shape the world today. Over the last two centuries, they have become powerful engines of change, accounting for some of the most important forms of human activity, inseparable from social, political and economic life. Analyzing their modes of production, the dynamics of their dissemination, the different forms of their use and opposition to them is a major academic and political challenge.
Science and Technology in Society offers a broad overview of work carried out in France, in the international multi-disciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS), and is the product of a collaboration between some thirty authors. It aims to provide an introduction to this field of research, its development, benefits and the new perspectives that are emerging.
This book presents and discusses studies that are still little-known in France, even though, paradoxically, many researchers from French institutions make decisive contributions to international work in this field.
1. STS: French History of an (In)discipline, Pierre-Benoît Joly.
2. Laboratory Studies: Beyond a Founding Myth of STS, Ashveen Peerbaye and Dominique Vinck.
3. STS and Biomedicine, Claire Beaudevin, Luc Berlivet, Catherine Bourgain and Jean-Paul Gaudillière.
4. Science for the People? STS Perspectives on the Question of Science and the Public, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Andrée Bergeron.
5. Politics of Expertise, Henri Boullier and David Demortain.
6. STS, Industry, and Risk Regulation, Nathalie Jas and Marc-Olivier Déplaude.
7. Ignorance Studies in STS, Laura Barbier, Maël Goumri and Justyna Moizard-Lanvin.
8. What the South is Doing to STS: Globalized Technoscience and Decolonization of Knowledge, Mathieu Quet, Mina Kleiche-Dray and David Dumoulin Kervran.
9. Environmental STS, Nicolas Baya-Laffite, Soraya Boudia and Céline Granjou.
10. Soils and Subsoils in STS: Technosciences and Underground Entities, Brice Laurent, Julien Merlin and Germain Meulemans.
11. STS and the Digital, Marine Al Dahdah, Éric Dagiral and Baptiste Kotras.
12. Maintenance and Repair, Jérôme Denis and David Pontille.
Soraya Boudia is a historian and sociologist of science and the environment, and a professor at Université Paris Cité, France. Her work has contributed to the development of STS in France, exploring the relationship between science and politics, with a focus on environmental risk management.
Ashveen Peerbaye is a sociologist of science and technology and a lecturer at Université Gustave Eiffel, France. His research is rooted in STS and focuses on the material culture and the instrumental infrastructure of the biomedical sciences.
