Tag: science

• November 29, 2024

  Q&A with Natalie Aviles author of An Ungovernable Foe

  Interviewed by Hayden Fulton on November 18th, 2024 Natalie B. Aviles is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. She is the author of An Ungovernable Foe: Science and Policy Innovation in the U.S. National Cancer Institute (Columbia University Press 2024). Hayden: Throughout the book, you make a strong mandate on why…
• October 26, 2024

  SKAT Sessions at ASA 2025

  Please see the full call here: https://www.asanet.org/2025-annual-meeting/call-for-submissions/papers-extended-abstracts/section-sessions/ Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology Challenging epistemic institutions: Unruly knowledge, outlaw technology, and fringe-mainstream relations  We live in epistemically challenged, and challenging, times. The status of various forms of knowledge continues to be contested, as many social actors compete for epistemic authority. Institutions of knowledge production are…