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Boundary objects and beyond : working with Leigh Star / edited by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Stefan Timmermans, Adele E. Clarke, and Ellen Balka

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Editor:
Bowker, Geoffrey C.  Search this
Timmermans, Stefan 1968-  Search this
Clarke, Adele E.  Search this
Balka, Ellen  Search this
Physical description:
ix, 548 pages ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2015
Notes:
NMAH copy 39088019961374 gift of Martin Collins.
Contents:
Revisiting Ecologies of knowledge : work and politics in science and technology / Susan Leigh Star -- Ecological thinking, material spirituality, and the poetics of infrastructure / Maria Puig de la Bellacasa -- Don't go all the way : "misplaced concretism" / Nina Wakeford -- Anticipation work : abduction, simplification, hope / Adele E. Clarke -- Living grounded theory : cognitive and emotional forms of Pragmatism / Susan Leigh Star -- Misplaced concretism and concrete situations : feminism, method, and information technology / Susan Leigh Star -- Institutional ecology, "translations", and boundary objects : amateurs and professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-1939 / Susan Leigh Star and James R. Griesemer -- Sharing spaces, crossing boundaries / James R. Griesemer -- So boundary as not to be an object at all / Brian Cantwell Smith -- The concept of boundary objects and the reshaping of research in management and organization studies / Dick Boland -- Leigh Star and the appearance of "The structure of ill-structured solutions" / Les Gasser -- The structure of ill-structured solutions : boundary objects and heterogeneous distributed problem solving / Susan Leigh Star -- Power, technology, and the phenomenology of conventions : on being allergic to onions / Susan Leigh Star -- Anatomy is frozen physiology, or How I learned to see the process that is everywhere / Gail A. Hornstein -- Categorizing life and death : the denial of civilians in U.S. robot wars / Jutta Weber and Cheris Kramarae -- Infrastructures for remembering / Janet Cejá Alcala, Susan Leigh Star, and Geoffrey C. Bowker -- Triangulation from the margins / John Leslie King -- Reflections on the visibility and invisibility of work / Kjeld Schmidt -- Layers of silence, arenas of voice : the ecology of visible and invisible work / Susan Leigh Star and Anselm Strauss -- Steps toward an ecology of infrastructure : design and access for large information spaces / Susan Leigh Star and Karen Ruhleder -- Mapping the body across diverse informatin systems : shadow bodies and how they make us human / Ellen Balka and Susan Leigh Star -- Thundering silence / Eevi E. Beck -- Those who are not served? : exploring exclusions and silences in transport infrastructures / Jane Summerton -- The ethnography of infrastructure / Susan Leigh Star -- Envoi : When shadows become complex : weaving the nganmarra / Susan Leigh Star
Topic:
Knowledge, Sociology of  Search this
Social ecology  Search this
Communication--Social aspects  Search this
Information technology--Social aspects  Search this
Cognition  Search this
Interdisciplinary research  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1091876