Labs of Our Own

Auteur

SIG/SARA GIORDANO is an associate professor of interdisciplinary studies at Kennesaw State University in Georgia.

Texte du rabat

Labs of Our Own demonstrates the perils and possibilities that emerge from experiments in democratizing science. The book ultimately intervenes in stale debates for and against science by arguing against uncritical excitement for democratic science and instead for critical science literacy and feminist tinkering as third ways forward.

Contenu

Prelude: You’re Either with Us or against Us: Affective Dissonance and 9/11
Introduction
Interlude 1: Serendipity
Chapter 1: (De)constructing DIY Community Biology Labs
Interlude 2: If We Knew What We Were Doing
Chapter 2: The Tinkerer as a New Scientific Subject
Interlude 3: Learning the Limits of Ethical Debate
Chapter 3: Becoming the Informed Public
Interlude 4: Nerd Masculinity
Chapter 4: Feminist Labs of Our Own in Academia?
Interlude 5: When the Right Comes to the Defense of Science
Chapter 5: Toward Queer Sciences of Failure
Interlude 6: Queer Revolt
Chapter 6: Tinkering as a Feminist Praxis
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index