Immutable Mobiles Derailed: STS, Geopolitics, and Research Assessment
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378025%3A_____%2F12%3A00368632" target="_blank" >RIV/68378025:_____/12:00368632 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://sth.sagepub.com/content/37/2/286" target="_blank" >http://sth.sagepub.com/content/37/2/286</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0162243911415872" target="_blank" >10.1177/0162243911415872</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Immutable Mobiles Derailed: STS, Geopolitics, and Research Assessment
Original language description
Science policies and science studies largely share an understanding of scientific knowledge and objects as immutable mobiles. This article shows how the analysis of research assessment in a non-Anglophone country and its effects on social sciences can shed new light on this shared notion. The preference for immutable mobiles in assessment regimes pushes social scientists to publish in specialized, usually Anglophone journals, which can result in the attenuation of local relevance of the knowledge they produce and contribute to the performance of globally converging societies. The author argues that the observed consequences for the social sciences in non-Anglophone countries underscore a larger problem with both the policy ideal and the science and technology studies (STS) idea of immutable mobiles on two counts: the relation of the social and natural sciences to society and the engagement of sciences with the multiplicity of societies as well as natures.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AO - Sociology, demography
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GP403%2F09%2FP203" target="_blank" >GP403/09/P203: Tracing knowledge between science and society</a><br>
Continuities
Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)
Others
Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Science Technology & Human Values
ISSN
0162-2439
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
37
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
286-311
UT code for WoS article
000301292400006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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