2013/2014 KAN-SOC_VFNT Mapping controversies: navigating trends and controversies
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Mapping controversies: navigating trends and controversies |
Course information |
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Language | English |
Exam ECTS | 7.5 ECTS |
Type | Elective |
Level | Full Degree Master |
Duration | One Quarter |
Course period | Second Quarter
Changes in schedule may occur. Thursday 9.50-11.30, week 44. Thursday 9.50-13.20, week 45-51. |
Time Table | Please see course schedule at e-Campus |
Min. participants | 35 |
Max. participants | 50 |
Study board |
Study Board for MSc of Social Science
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Administration: Karina Ravn Nielsen, 3815 3782, electives.lpf@cbs.dk | |
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Last updated on 18-03-2013 |
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After taking this course, students
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It is an intense course, based on the students' motivation and active participation in class and between classes. Students interested in joining this course should therefore expect case work outside class. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This course explores the constitution
and development of controversies. Controversies are highly complex
and polyphonic disputes, spreading beyond national and
organizational boundaries and moving across distinct domains such
as economy, politics, science and technology.
This development leads us to a number of theoretical and methodological challenges in analyzing and strategically navigating controversies such as public-relations, emerging markets and political and techno-scientific disputes. Examples of controversies could be: - Financial transaction tax - New nordic food - Road pricing conflicts - Death penalty (see www.mappingcontroversies.dk for examples) The course is theoretically founded in Science and technology studies (STS), especially actor-network theory and discourse theory (primarily Laclau). Our way into modern controversies goes through the experimenting digitcal and theoretical concept of ‘mapping’, originally designed by sociologist Bruno Latour. The course offers reflections on the emerging intersections between digital analytical strategies and sociological theories of controversies. The course is a part of growing international network of controversy mapping, making the case work a possible step stone for participating in some of the annual international competitions. |
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The course combines lectures, workshops, and student presentations, with students’ conducting own case work in between classes (collecting and analyzing large amounts of data, using advanced harvesting, mapping and visualization software). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Expected literature | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Andersen, N. Å. (2003). Discursive
analytical strategies: Understanding koselleck, laclau, luhmann
(1st ed.). UK: Policy Press.
Appadurai, A. (1990). Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy. Theory, Culture & Society, 7(2), 295–310. doi:10.1177/026327690007002017 Justesen, L. (2005). Dokumenter i netværk. In M. Järvinen, & N. Mik-Meyer (Eds.), Kvalitative metoder i et interaktionistisk perspektiv (pp. 97-120). København: Hans Reitzels Forlag. Laclau, E. (2000). Identity and hegemony: The role of universality in the constitution of political logics. In J. Butler, E. Laclau & S. Zizek (Eds.), Contingency, hegemony, universality: Contemporary dialogues on the left (pp. 44-89). London: Verso. Latour, B. (1987). Science in action : how to follow scientists and engineers through society. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Latour, B. (2005). Reassembling the social : an introduction to actor-network-theory. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. Madsen, A. K. (2012). Web-Visions as Controversy-Lenses. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 37(1), 51–68. doi:10.1179/0308018812Z.0000000004 Marcus, G. (1995). Ethnography in/of the world system: The emergence of multi-sited ethnography.Annual Review of Anthropology, 24, 95-117. Marres, N., & Rogers, R. (2008). Subsuming the ground: how local realities of the Fergana Valley, the Narmada Dams and the BTC pipeline are put to use on the Web. Economy and Society, 37(2), 251–281. doi:10.1080/03085140801933314 Venturini, T. (2009). Diving in magma: how to explore controversies with actor-network theory. Public Understanding of Science, 19(3), 258–273. doi:10.1177/0963662509102694 Venturini, T. (2010). Building on faults: How to represent controversies with digital methods. Public Understanding of Science, 21(7), 796–812. doi:10.1177/0963662510387558 Venturini, T., & Guido, D. (2013). Once Upon a Text: An ANT Tale in Text Analysis. Sociologica. Venturini, T., & Latour, B. (2010). The Social Fabric: Digital Traces and Quali-quantitative Methods. In Future En Seine 2009. Presented at the The digital future of the city, Paris: Cap Digital. Whatmore, S. J. (2009). Mapping knowledge controversies: science, democracy and the redistribution of expertise. Progress in Human Geography, 33(5), 587–598. doi:10.1177/0309132509339841 |
Last updated on
18-03-2013