Absences: Methodological Note about Nothing, in Particular

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Language

English

Abstract

This article considers the growing body of STS research on absences in technoscience. While solid conceptual ground has been made in theorizing different forms of absence and their social production, researchers have not paid sufficient attention to various methodological challenges that a focus on absences implies. How does one study what is not there? I offer 10 methodological considerations as a provisional foundation for an empirical program of research on absences and a brief illustration drawn from an ongoing study of absence in post-Katrina New Orleans.

Subject

Undone Science
Absence

Publication Title

Publication Year

2014

Publication Date

2014-01-02

Source

Taylor and Francis+NEJM

License

ISSN

0269-1728

Physical Description

vol. 28, n. 1, pp. 86-95

Short Title

Absences

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Absences: Methodological Note about Nothing, in Particular, dans Science & Ignorance, consulté le 21 Novembre 2024, https://ignorancestudies.inist.fr/s/science-ignorance/item/4727

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