Labs of Our Own
eBook - ePub

Labs of Our Own

Feminist Tinkerings with Science

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Labs of Our Own

Feminist Tinkerings with Science

About this book

From climate change to COVID-19 to reproductive justice, there has been deep political polarization around science. Labs of Our Own provides a unique entry point into these twenty-first-century science wars by focusing on our affective relationships to science. The book delves into various sites where scientists, teachers, artists, and activists claim to create more democratic access to science—from DIY biology community labs to feminist classrooms to activist science practitioners. The reader will find that these claims for and attempts at democratic sciences not only impact what counts as science and who counts as a scientist but reconfigure who is included in the proper public. Instead of arguing for a knee-jerk defense of science against right-wing attacks, Labs of Our Own builds the case for a feminist, antiracist, decolonial, queer science tinkering practice that intentionally, politically, and ethically acts to produce new challenges to the definition and boundaries of the human.

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Yes, you can access Labs of Our Own by Sig / Sara Giordano in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Science Research & Methodology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Prelude: You’re Either with Us or against Us: Affective Dissonance and 9/11
  6. Introduction
  7. Interlude 1: Serendipity
  8. 1. (De)constructing DIY Community Biology Labs
  9. Interlude 2: If We Knew What We Were Doing
  10. 2. The Tinkerer as a New Scientific Subject
  11. Interlude 3: Learning the Limits of Ethical Debate
  12. 3. Becoming the Informed Public
  13. Interlude 4: Nerd Masculinity
  14. 4. Feminist Labs of Our Own in Academia?
  15. Interlude 5: When the Right Comes to the Defense of Science
  16. 5. Toward Queer Sciences of Failure
  17. Interlude 6: Queer Revolt
  18. 6. Tinkering as a Feminist Praxis
  19. Epilogue
  20. Acknowledgments
  21. Notes
  22. References
  23. Index
  24. About the Author