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Infrastructures of Knowing

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Publication date15/10/2024
Host publicationElgar Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Studies
EditorsUlrike Felt, Alan Irwin
PublisherEdward Elgar
Pages43-51
Number of pages8
ISBN (electronic)9781800377981
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Publication series

NameElgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences

Abstract

STS describes how knowing practices work by including, drawing on, and reproducing heterogeneous material and immaterial infrastructures. Typically taken for granted, these infrastructures both shape knowing and are (re)crafted in those practices. This chapter uses four environmental projects (Scallops seeding in Saint Brieuc Bay, France; the designation of a marine protected area in Arran, Scotland; salmon management in Deatnu, Norway; and a civil laboratory in Newfoundland, Canada) to illustrate the political nature of the infrastructures of knowledge, and how these condition, but do not determine, what is possible.