Thesis ID: CBB001562302

Velvet Revolutions: Accounting for Epistemic and Political Change at a Modern Physics Laboratory Amid the Second Rise of Biology in Synchrotron Science (2003)

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Doing, Park Atkinson (Author)


Cornell University
Pinch, Trevor


Publication Date: 2003
Edition Details: Advisor: Pinch, Trevor
Physical Details: 200 pp.
Language: English

This dissertation is an ethnographic study of a modern physics laboratory that seeks to understand the relationship between technical knowledge claims and political modes of authority and control. It is argued that groups within the laboratory are engaged in epistemic politics whereby technical knowledge claims are used to justify modes of authority, access, and control in the lab while at the same time these modes of authority, access, and control are implicated in the presentation and reception of technical knowledge claims. Through an analysis of three different episodes, an understanding of change in scientific practice emerges whereby trends in wider culture and transformations of the epistemic political order at the lab are seen as linked. In particular, changing orchestrations of epistemic politics at the lab are seen as both mediating and promoting the rise of biology in synchrotron science at the end of the twentieth century.

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Description Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 64 (2003): 1282. UMI order no. 3087013.


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Authors & Contributors
Kurtulmus, A Faik
Irzik, Gürol
Grignolio, Andrea
Wolfe, Douglas A.
Wang, Xiaoyi
Wang, Jessica
Concepts
Science and politics
Laboratories
Research institutes; research stations
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Science and government
Government sponsored science
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
United States
Italy
China
North Carolina (U.S.)
Rocky Mountains (U.S.)
Institutions
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; Partial Test Ban Treaty; Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963)
Lincoln Laboratory
Southeast Fisheries Science Center (Miami, Florida)
Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (Beaufort, N. C.)
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
United States. President's Science Advisory Committee
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