Making & Doing: Activating STS through Knowledge Expression and Travel

“Making & Doing advances a critical science and technology studies that endeavors to be reflexive, collaborative, and publicly-engaged—and, therefore, that can truly matter. These timely, experimental perspectives boldly challenge STS dogma, and elucidate crucial new research pathways.”—Alondra Nelson, President, Social Science Research Council“Richly populated with researchers and their interlocutors, these accounts describe (often uneasy) relations and always contingent practices of knowledge creation. They connect up multiple modes of scholarship with differently mediated forms of intervention and question their uneven valuation. Read together, the ten evocative cases collected here stand as ‘demo accounts’ for what is itself a transformative project-in-process for STS.”—Lucy Suchman, Professor Emerita, Lancaster University    “Making & Doing is an exceptional book. Gary Downey and Teun Zuiderent-Jerak invite the reader to join them on a fascinating trip to ten different sites where STS knowledge moves beyond the boundaries of the field. Carefully brought together, the essays fill a gap between STS research and STS in action, opening up a space of reflexive learning from engagements in empirical arenas. The book is highly innovative and inspiring as it encourages the reader to understand knowledge expression and travel not as lying outside of the core of STS scholarship but as essential and lively activities at the very heart of the field.”—Ulrike Felt, Professor, University of Vienna “STS has always gone beyond critique to ask how knowledge and technical practices might be made differently. In response, making & doing practices have rapidly grown as a scholarly genre that puts urgent questions of ethics and methods in the spotlight. Assembled by two leaders in the field and gathering some of the most thought-provoking practitioners, this book places making & doing in its rightful location at the center of STS futures.” —Michelle Murphy, Professor, University of TorontoWinner of the Amsterdamska Prize for best edited book from the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, 2022