Reading Seminar on Science, Technology and Society/Policy: Search for Interdisciplinary Perspectives with Sohan P. Sha

Reading Seminar on Science, Technology and
Society/Policy: Search for Interdisciplinary Perspectives
With Sohan Prasad Sha

Organized by Martin Chautari in Collaboration with Colloquium on Philosophy of Science and Sociology of Technology, NAST

By Dipak Gyawali: Introductory session with the participants and the discussion over tea at Martin Chautari.

READINGS
1. STS and Scientific Controversy

• Felt, Ulrike., Fouché, Rayvon., Miller, Clark. A., & Smith-Doerr, Laurel. (Eds.). (2016). The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. USA: MIT Press. 1–26 (Introduction to 4th edition of STS handbook), 27–30 (Doing, Exploring and Reflection on Methods), 31–57 (STS as Method by John Law)
• Callon, Michel. (1986). The Sociology of an Actor-Network: The case of the Electric Vehicle. In Micheal Callon, John Law & Arie Rip (Eds.), Mapping the Dynamics of Science and Technology (Sociology of Science in the Real World) (pp. 19–34). London: The Macmillan Press.
• Pandey, Ashok Raj. (2017). Whither electric Vehicles?. In Dipak Gyawali, Micheal Thompson and Marco Verweij (Eds.), Aid, Technology and Development: The Lessons from Nepal (pp.95–113). New York: Routledge.

2. STS and Promises of Techno sciences

• Borup, Mads., Brown, Nik., Konrad, Kornelia., & Van Lente, Harri. (2006). The sociology of expectations in science and technology. Technology analysis & strategic management, 18(3-4), 285–298.
• Nepal, Mani., Nepal, Apsara., & Grimsrud, Kristine. (2011). Unbelievable but Improved Cookstoves are not helpful in reducing firewood demand in Nepal. Environment and Development Economics, 16(1), 1–23.
• Quet, Mathieu. (2015). It will be a disaster! How people protest against things which have not yet happened. Public Understanding of Science, 24(2), 210–224.
• Pigg, Stacy Leigh. (2001). Languages of sex and AIDS in Nepal: Notes on the Social Production of Commensurability. Cultural Anthropology, 16(4), 481–541.

3. STS and Laboratory Life/Social Construction of Science

• Latour, Bruno., & Woolgar, Steve. (1986). Laboratory life: The Construction of Scientific Facts. Princeton University Press (second edition). 15–42.
• Pinch, Trevor. J., & Bijker, Wiebe. E. (1984). The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: Or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other. Social Studies of Science, 14(3), 399–441.
• Guo,  Jerry.  (2008).  Nepal  Counts  on  Science  to  Turn  Struggling  Country  Around. Science, 320(5882), 1411.
• Kofman, Ava. (October, 2018). Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense  of Science. The  New York Times Magazine. Retrieved from  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/magazine/bruno-latour-post-truth-philosopher-   science.html

4. STS and Post-Colonial Studies

• McNeil, Maureen. (2005). Introduction: Postcolonial Technoscience. Science as Culture, 14(2), 105–112.
• Law, John., & Wen-yuan, Lin. (2017). Provincializing STS: Postcoloniality, Symmetry, and Method. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, 11(2), 211–227.
• Visvanathan, Shiv. (2006). Alternative Science. Theory, Culture & Society, 23(2–3), 164– 169.
• Cameron, Mary. (2010). Feminization and Marginalization? Women Ayurvedic Doctors and Modernizing Health Care in Nepal. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 24(1), 42–63.
• Alzebra (The Art and Ideas Club). (28 Sept 2017). Shiv Visvanathan & Mukta Dabholkar @Algebra. Retrieved from  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K5juOc0IdU&t=3339s .

5. STS and Gender Studies

• Martin, Emily. (1991). The Egg and the Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 16(3), 485–501.
• Tabet, Paola. (1982). Hands, Tools, Weapons. Feminist Issues, 2(2), 3–62.
• Buchy, Marlene., & Subba, Suman. (2003). Why is Community Forestry a Social-and Gender-blind Technology? The case of Nepal. Gender, Technology and Development, 7(3), 313–332.

6. STS and Participation/Public Understand of Science

• Irwin, Alan. (2006). The Politics of Talk: Coming to Terms with the ‘New’scientific Governance. Social Studies of Science, 36(2), 299–320.
• Lengwiler, Martin. (2008). Participatory Approaches in Science and Technology: Historical Origins and Current Practices in Critical Perspective. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 33(2), 186–200.
• Thorpe, Charles. (2010). Participation as Post-Fordist Politics: Demos, New Labour, and Science Policy. Minerva, 48(4), 389–411.
• Karki, Ajoy. (2017) Micro and Small Hydro: Serial Leapfrogging to a Braver New Nepal. Aid, Technology and Development: The Lessons from Nepal. New York: Routledge. 113–131.
• Pandey, Bikash. (2015). Track II – Nepal's Pluralistic Hydropower Development Post- Arun. Chautari Foundation Lecture. 1–17.