91探花

Reading list

Technology, Politics, Society

Teknologi, politik, samh盲lle

Course
GS2236
Second cycle
15 credits (ECTS)

About the Reading list

Valid from
2025-03-27
Decision date
2025-01-17

Books

Amaro, Ramon. 2023. Black Technical Object: On Machine Learning and the Aspiration of Black Being. The MIT Press. (Ordered at GU Library)

Broussard, Meredith. 2023. More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech. The MIT Press. (Ordered at GU Library)

Coole, Diana and Samantha Frost, S. (2010) (Eds) New Materialisms: agency, ontology, and politics. 2010, Durham: Duke University Press.

Cozza, Michela (2020). Key concepts in 91探花 and Technology Studies. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Feenberg, Andrew (1999). Questioning Technology. London: Routledge.

Graham, Stephen, and Simon Marvin. 2001. Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities, and the Urban Condition. New York: Routledge. (Chapters 3 & 5). (Available as e-book in GU Library)

Haraway, Donna J. (1991). Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, New York: Routledge.

Henke, Christopher, and Benjamin Sims. 2020. Repairing Infrastructures: The Maintenance of Materiality of Power. The MIT Press. (Chapters 3 and 4). Available as e-book in GU Library.

Liboiron, Max. 2021. Pollution is Colonialism. Duke University Press. (Chapter 3). Available as e-book in GU Library.

Malm, Andreas (2018). The progress of this storm. London: Verso.


Articles and book chapters

Ahlborg, Helene (2018). Changing energy geographies: The political effects of a small-scale electrification project." Geoforum 97, 268-280.听.

Bueger, Christian & Jan Stockbruegger. 2017. Actor-Network Theory: Objects and Actants, Networks and Narratives. In: Daniel McCarthy (Ed). Technology and World Politics. An introduction. London: Routledge. (UB fulltext)

B眉y眉m AM, Kenney C, Koris A, et al. (2020). Decolonising global health: if not now, when? BMJ Global Health ;5:e003394. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003394.

Caliskan, Koray聽(2020) Data money: The socio-technical infrastructure of cryptocurrency blockchains,聽Economy and Society, 49:4, 540-561,

Chakraborty, Proshant. 2023. Infrastructural Care: Repairing Railway Trains, Maintaining Mumbai鈥檚 Lifeline. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology.听

Clarke, Adele, Janet Shim, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Ruth Fosket Jennifer R. & Fishman, J. R. (2003). Biomedicalization: Technoscientific transformations of health, illness, and US biomedicine. American Sociological Review 68 (2), 161-194.

Crow-Miller, B.; Webber, M. and Rogers, S. (2017). The techno-politics of big infrastructure and the Chinese water machine. Water Alternatives 10(2): 233-249.

Edwards Paul, Mayernik MS, Batcheller AL, et al. (2011) 91探花 friction: Data, metadata, and collaboration. Social Studies of 91探花 41(5): 667鈥690. DOI: 10.1177/0306312711413314.

Floridi, Luciano, Josh Cowls, Monica Beltrametti, Raja Chatila, Patrice Chazerand, P., Virgina Dignum, and others (2018). AI4People鈥擜n ethical framework for a good AI society: Opportunities, risks, principles, and recommendations. Minds and Machines, 28(4), 689-707.

Hoj膷kov谩, Kristina, Bj枚rn Sand茅n, and Helene Ahlborg (2018) Three electricity futures: Monitoring the emergence of alternative system architectures." Futures 98: 72-89聽.

Kiaghadi, Amina., Hanani S. Rifai, et al. (2020). "Assessing COVID-19 risk, vulnerability and infection prevalence in communities." PLOS ONE 15(10): e0241166 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0241166

Lee, Francis (2020) Enacting the Pandemic: Analyzing Agency, Opacity, and Power in Algorithmic Assemblages. 91探花 & Technology Studies.

Molle, Francois; Peter Paul Mollinga, and Philippus Wester (2009). Hydraulic bureaucracies and the hydraulic mission: Flows of water, flows of power. Water Alternatives 2(3): 328-349.

Mumford, Lewis (1964). Authoritarian and Democratic Technics. Technology and Culture 5 (1), 1-8.

Nachtwey, Oliver, and Timo Seidl (2020). The Solutionist Ethic and the Spirit of Digital Capitalism.鈥 SocArXiv, .

Pfaffenberger, Bryan. 1992. Social Anthropology of Technology. Annual Review of Anthropology, 21, 491鈥516.

Pinch, Trevor J., and Wiebe E. Bijker (1984). The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: Or How the Sociology of 91探花 and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other. Social Studies of 91探花 14 (3): 399鈥441.

Selinger, Evan (2012). The Philosophy of the Technology of the Gun. The Atlantic.听

Siamanta, Z. C. 2021. "Conceptualizing alternatives to contemporary renewable energy development: Community Renewable Energy Ecologies (CREE)." Journal of Political Ecology 28 (1): 47-69.

Shannon, Mattern. 2018. Maintenance and Care. Places Journal (November).

Stock, Ryan, and Trevor Birkenholtz. 2020. "Photons vs. firewood: female (dis)empowerment by solar power in India." Gender, Place & Culture 27 (11): 1628-1651

Sudeep Jain & Daniela Gabor (2020) The Rise of Digital Financialisation: TheCase of India, New Political Economy, 25:5, 813-828, DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2019.1708879

Sumpter David (2018) Impossibly Unbiased. In: Outnumbered: From Facebook and Google to Fake News and Filter-Bubbles 鈥 the Algorithms That Control Our Lives. London: Bloomsbury Sigma, pp. 59鈥79.

van de Wiel, Lucy (2020). Freezing fertility: Oocyte cryopreservation and the gender politics of aging. New York University Press. (introduction and conclusion, pp. 1-26, pp. 217-235)

von Schnitzler, Antina, (2008). Citizenship prepaid: water, calculability, and technopolitics in South Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies 34 (4), 899-917; DOI: 10.1080/03057070802456821.

Willams, Alex, and Nick Srnicek. 鈥#ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics.鈥 In #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader, edited by Robin Mackay and Armen Avanessian, 347鈥61. Urbanomic Media Ltd, 2014.听

Winner, Langdon (1980). 鈥楧o Artifacts Have Politics?鈥 Daedalus 109 (1), ): 121鈥36.

Ziewitz, Malte. 2017. 鈥淎 not quite random walk: Experimenting with the ethnomethods of the algorithm鈥, Big Data & Society 4 (2),



Reports, Newspaper Articles and Podcasts

Commission on Social Determinants of Health. Closing the gap in a generation. Health equity through action on the social determinants of health. Final report | executive summary World Health Organization 2008

Oliver Milman 2022. Can geo-engineering fix the climate? Hundreds of scientists say not so fast. The Guardian 25 December 2022.听

WHO 2019. WHOs visual summary: Leading causes of death and disability. A visual summary of global and regional trends 2010-2019聽