Domesticating and democratizing science: a geography of do-it-yourself biology

Morgan Meyer
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Morgan Meyer: Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Mines ParisTech

No 32, CSI Working Papers Series from Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), Mines ParisTech

Abstract: Do-it-yourself biology, as a promise of democratization of science, is analyzed in terms of its spatiality and materiality, and in terms of the various kinds of boundary-work it entails, in the perspective of a geography of science that focuses on emerging and less institutionalized sites of science.

Keywords: science and technology studies; research; do-it-yourself biology; scientific equipment; boundaries; creative workarounds; geography of science (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I19 I29 Z19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2013-01
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