Introduction -- Agroextractivism: the desert grows -- The economic rationality of agroextractivism -- Territorial control and geographical expansion of agribusiness -- The government of the affects -- Agroecology in post-development settings -- Re-inhabiting the skin of the earth through agro-ecology -- The future, behind.This study discusses an original proposal aimed at critically analyzing t…
This book delves deeply into modern surrogacy arrangements, responding to both practical and ethical critiques by offering a radically new model for surrogate motherhood. Current practice distinguishes between two models of surrogacy – the altruistic (unpaid) model and the commercial (paid) model, both of which present social, ethical, and conceptual challenges. This book proposes a novel arr…
1. Introduction: Who are the POWRE Awardees? -- 2. Revisiting POWRE Awardees After a Decade: Continuing Issues for Successful Academic Women Scientists and Engineers -- 3. Consistency in Responses over Time -- 4. Senior Compared to Junior Women Academic Scientists: Similar or Different Needs? -- 5. Are Perceived Differences for Junior and Senior Women Because of Struggles to Balance Career and …
1. From Intervention to Invention: Introducing Topological Techniques -- 2. Aristotle’s Topoi and Idia as a Map of Discourse -- 3. Topoi and Tekmēria: Rhetorical Fluidity among Aristotle, Isocrates, and Alcidamas -- 4. The Shape of Labor to Come -- 5. Inventing Mosquitoes: Tracing The Topology Of Vectors For Human Disease -- 6. Genre Signals in Textual Topologies William Hart-Davidson and Ry…
1. Introduction -- 2. Mediating Communication in Science: The Interplay of Trust and Interactional Expertise -- 3. Reassessing the Distinction between Experts and Non-Experts: Methodological Consequences for Research in Science Communication -- 4. Epistemic Interactions within and outside Scientific Communities: Different or Analogous Processes? -- 5. Science Journalism as a Social Field: A C…
What is Good Design? -- Rational Design -- Social Psychology -- Style -- Culture -- Social Contract -- Social Agendas -- Activism -- Social Spaces -- Risk -- Fairness -- Progress -- Sustainability.This book discusses concepts of good design from social perspectives grounded in anthropology, sociology and philosophy, the goal being to provide readers with an awareness of social issues to help th…
1. Introduction -- 2.the 'Entrepreneurial State' and the Leveraging of Life in the Field of Regenerative Medicine -- 3.Technologies of Governance: Science, State and Citizen in Visions of the Bioeconomy -- 4. "Having a Structuring Effect on Europe". The Innovative Medicines Initiative and the Construction of the European Health Bioeconomy -- 5. The Underworlds Project and The "Collective Microb…
Chapter 1 Introduction: Visualizing Genetics for Public Readers -- Chapter 2 The Photographic View: Observational Record and Symbolic Excess -- Chapter 3 The Microscopic View: Miniscule Science and Art -- Chapter 4 The Illustrated View: Iconic Explanations and Figurative Metaphors -- Chapter 5 The Code View: Cracking the Genetic Code of Life -- Chapter 6 The Graph View: Navigating Big Data Scie…
1. Introduction -- Part I. Making Scientific and Medical Truths -- 2. Alzheimer’s in the Making -- 3. The Pharmaceuticalized Prostate -- 4. New Puberty; New Trans: Children, Pharmaceuticals and Politics -- Part II. Creating Subjectivities for “Patients” in Advertising -- 5. Prescribing Relational Subjectivities -- 6. You Will Protect Your Daughter, Right? -- Part III. Different HPV Vaccin…
Chapter 1 - Introduction -- Part I Action And Reflection: A Story Of Finrrage In 28 Voices -- Chapter 2 – Emergence -- Chapter 3 – Expansion -- Chapter 4 – Abeyance -- Part II Studying It Up: Finrrage As A Cognitive Praxis -- Chapter 5 – Writing The Resistance -- Chapter 6 – 'The Finrrage Position' As A Cognitive Praxis -- Chapter 7 - Final Words -- Chapter 8. The Women Of Finrr…