Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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    What Is an Environmental Problem?
    Theory, Culture and Society 38 (2): 93-117. 2021.
    This paper advances two arguments about environmental problems. First, it interrogates the strength and limitations of empiricist accounts of problems and issues offered by actor-network theory. Drawing on the work of C.S. Peirce, it considers how emerging environmental problems often lead to abductive inferences about the existence of hidden causes that may or may not have caused the problem to emerge. The analysis of environmental problems should be empiricist in so far as it is sceptical of t…Read more
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    Technological Zones
    European Journal of Social Theory 9 (2): 239-253. 2006.
    This article provides an overview of the analysis of technological zones. A technological zone can be understood as a space within which differences between technical practices, procedures and forms have been reduced, or common standards have been established. Such technological zones take broadly one of three forms: (1) metrological zones associated with the development of common forms of measurement; (2) infrastructural zones associated with the creation of common connection standards; and (3)…Read more
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    8 Multiple Environments
    with Gisa Weszkalnys
    In Andrew Barry & Georgina Born (eds.), Interdisciplinarity: Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences, Routledge. pp. 178. 2013.
  • Pindices
    with Lucy Kimbell
    In Bruno Latour & Peter Weibel (eds.), Making Things Public, Mit Press. pp. 872--873. 2005.
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    To public experiment
    with Georgina Born
    In Andrew Barry & Georgina Born (eds.), Interdisciplinarity: Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences, Routledge. pp. 247. 2013.
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    Pharmaceutical Matters
    Theory, Culture and Society 22 (1): 51-69. 2005.
    Drawing on the work of Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Isabelle Stengers on the history of chemistry, this article develops the idea that drug molecules can be understood as ‘informed materials’. This study argues that molecules should not be viewed as discrete objects, but as constituted in their relations to complex informational and material environments. Through a case study of commercial pharmaceutical R&D, the article examines the role of combinatorial and computational chemistry in enrich…Read more
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    Interdisciplinarity: reconfigurations of the social and natural sciences (edited book)
    with Georgina Born
    Routledge. 2013.
    The idea that research should become more interdisciplinary has become commonplace. According to influential commentators, the unprecedented complexity of problems such as climate change or the social implications of biomedicine demand interdisciplinary efforts integrating both the social and natural sciences. In this context, the question of whether a given knowledge practice is too disciplinary, or interdisciplinary, or not disciplinary enough has become an issue for governments, research poli…Read more