[STS]

Question 1

Situated knowledge [?;?]

Answer 1

Haraway 1998
Conquering gaze from nowhere = male and white, objectivity, disembodiment, the god trick
Vs. all knowledge is situated
Situated knowledge and embodiment = reach a partial and situated and limited objectivity
You have na impact on the knowledge you produce
Acknowledge partiality and contingency = best form of objectivity
Standards of subjugated preferred - most likely to know about the god trick

Question 2

Postcolonial STS (?;?)

Answer 2

Anderson 2002
Dichotomies in colonial regimes underpin its hegemonic claims e.g. Western/Indigenous, developed/underdeveloped, modern/traditional
History from modernisation theory (sci knowledge diffuse from centre to periphery) to ideas about multiple modernities; local differences and versions of modernity
Emphasis on situatedness of technoscience = focus on the local

Question 3

Sheep farming and Chernobyl (?;?)

Answer 3

Hinchliffe and Blowers 2003
Sheep in Cumbria
Establishing risks of contamination = uncertain
Risk estimated to be low
20 years later levels of radioactivity in sheep still unsafe
Farmers stressed, lost out on compensation, frustrated by top-down policy
UK gov chief scientific advisor argued for gov to seek wider body of sometimes conflicting scientific opinion and be open about uncertainties
Top-down / deficit approach