Fields of Knowledge

Science, Politics and Publics in the Neoliberal Age

Scott Frickel|David J. Hess

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14 July 2014

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This issue of Political Power and Social Theory explores the changes in science associated with the rise of neoliberalism since the 1970s. The neoliberalization of science has complicated interactions among states, markets, and civil society, often in ways that challenge major assumptions underlying decades of research. The articles collected here break with older Mertonian sociologies of science and constructivist microsociologies of scientific knowledge to examine the mesolevel problem of the changing institutional contexts of "the scientific field" as originally identified by Pierre Bourdieu. Papers presented in Part I extend Bourdieu's relational approach to the broader set of interactions among scientific, regulatory, industry, and social movement fields. Part II extends Bourdieu's concern with order and the scientific habitus to the changing patterns of scientific practices under neoliberalism. By reconceptualizing the central problem for the social studies of science as the political sociological problem of field and interfield dynamics, the collected papers chart an important theoretical agenda for future research in the study of sciencesociety relations.

Fields of Knowledge: Science, Politics and Publics in the Neoliberal Age. Introduction: Fields of Knowledge and Theory Traditions in the Sociology of Science. List of Contributors. Student Editorial Board. Senior Editorial Board. Editorial Statement. Series editor’s introduction. Understanding Change in Academic Knowledge Production in a Neoliberal Era. Neoliberal Confluences: The Turbulent Evolution of Stream Mitigation Banking in the US. Beekeepers’ Collective Resistance and the Politics of Pesticide Regulation in France and the United States. When Green Became Blue: Epistemic Rift and the Corralling of Climate Science. The Cultural Role of Science in Policy Implementation: Voluntary Self-Regulation in the UK Building Sector. Field Theories and the Move Toward the Market in US Academic Science. “The Tip of the Day”: Field Theory and Alternative Nutrition in the US. What is Volunteer Water Monitoring Good for? Fracking and the Plural Logics of Participatory Science. Fields of Knowledge: Science, Politics and Publics in the Neoliberal Age. Copyright page. Political power and social theory. Fields of Knowledge: Science, Politics and Publics in the Neoliberal Age. Introduction: Fields of Knowledge and Theory Traditions in the Sociology of Science. List of Contributors. Student Editorial Board. Senior Editorial Board. Editorial Statement. Series editor’s introduction. Understanding Change in Academic Knowledge Production in a Neoliberal Era. Neoliberal Confluences: The Turbulent Evolution of Stream Mitigation Banking in the US. Beekeepers’ Collective Resistance and the Politics of Pesticide Regulation in France and the United States. When Green Became Blue: Epistemic Rift and the Corralling of Climate Science. The Cultural Role of Science in Policy Implementation: Voluntary Self-Regulation in the UK Building Sector. Field Theories and the Move Toward the Market in US Academic Science. “The Tip of the Day”: Field Theory and Alternative Nutrition in the US. What is Volunteer Water Monitoring Good for? Fracking and the Plural Logics of Participatory Science. Fields of Knowledge: Science, Politics and Publics in the Neoliberal Age. Copyright page. Political power and social theory.