Das Thema Klassifikationen und deren Rückkoppelungseffekte berührt einen zentralen Bereich sowohl aktueller Ansätze im Feld der Science and Technology Studies als auch wissensanthropologischer Forschungen: Techno-wisse ...

Das Forschungsfeld der Science and Technology Studies hat wesentliche Impulse für seine Entstehung und Entwicklung aus der Wissenschaftstheorie, vor allem der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts bezogen. Der logische ...

Eine zunehmend heterogene Zivilgesellschaft bildet kontextabhängig verschiedene Öffentlichkeiten heraus, deren Einbindung transparente Entscheidungsprozesse einerseits und Diskurskompetenz andererseits voraussetzt. Das ...

Building on the works of sociologists of health and illness that have highlighted the effects of visible difference and stigmatisation since Goffman, this article examines the ambivalence of visibility experienced by people ...

The rapid development of biomedicine demands a trustworthy, proactive regulatory regime that is able to manage progress with genuine regard for ethical, social and legal concerns. With its recent past of eugenics and ...

Epigenetics is the study of changes in gene expression caused by mechanisms other than changes in the DNA itself. The field is rapidly growing and being widely promoted, attracting attention in diverse arenas. These include ...

The aim of this contribution is twofold: First, it shows methodologically an ethnographic mode of research that we call co-laborative. This mode enables new forms of reflexivity in European Ethnology and makes them ...

In this essay, I describe life- and climate-scientifically informed Bio- and Geo-Politics as important drivers of incremental change in urban everyday life. In three steps, I develop a social anthropological research ...