Postgraduate Module Descriptor

SOCM032: Emerging Issues in STS

This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Beck, U. (1992) Risk Society. Towards a New Modernity. London: Sage

Latour, B. (2015) Re-Assembling the Social. AN Introduction to ANT. Oxford: OUP

Law, J. (1991) (ed.) A Sociology of Monsters. Essays on Power, Technology and Power. London: Routledge.

Law, J. & Hassard, J. (1999) Actor Network Theory and After. Sociological Review Monographs/Oxford: Blackwell.

Mol, A. (2002) The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice. Durham/London: Duke University Press.

Schillmeier, M. (2010) Rethinking Disability. Bodies, Senses and Things. London: Routledge

Schillmeier, M. (2014) Eventful Bodies. The Cosmopolitics of Illness. London/New York: Routledge

Stengers, I. (2010/11) Cosmopolitics I & II. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

Whitehead, AN (1967) Science and the Modern World. Ney York: The Free Press

Wilkie, A. et al. (2017) Speculative Research. The Lure of Possible Futures. New York: Routledge