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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Demmer; Dr. Arne Harms
Event type:
Seminar
Org-unit: 03-Anthropology
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Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
English
Official course description:
This module is an introduction into anthropological key debates about science and technology. The module aims to equip students with a critical understanding of these debates through reading and analyzing major scholarly contributions in this field. Specific attention will be paid to the role of science and technology in the production of order and disorder in the so-called Global South. What forms of knowledge, hopes, fears, and practices are evoked by the global circulation of science and technology? How are scientific knowledge and technological innovations constantly redrawing the boundaries between nature and society? How do they transform imaginations of identity, power, and society?
The module will draw on the full range of conceptual approaches deployed at the intersections of anthropology and Science and Technologies Studies (STS) in order to elaborate a theoretically profound and interdisciplinary understanding of contemporary debates on science and technology.
Organisational issues:
https://moodle2.uni-leipzig.de/course/view.php?id=27585
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