科學、科技與文化政治
Science, Technology and Cultural Politics
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2 09:00–09:50 | 科學、科技與文化政治 F106A 3 節連堂 |
3 10:10–11:00 | |
4 11:10–12:00 |
* 根據陽明交大上課時間表所列
本課程介紹一系列理論及概念,讓學生從各種取徑理解科學及科技,這些取徑與社會學、人類學、文化研究及歷史等相關學科。開首時會先介紹一些重要學者及理論典範,然後進入選定的題目,包括工業革命、後殖民批評、人類與動物的關係、流動、性別、社會主義轉型及心智科學等等。同時,討論會專注於東亞歷史,探尋新的理解,並聚焦在科技應用與適用、人們日常生活的科技實踐,以及新科技實踐、器物及知識。 本課程取廣義的科技與科學,所以期望學生能把自己的研究題目帶進來,並發展新的研究問題及取徑,課程內容亦可因應學生的興趣及建議作修改,授課導師會盡量令課程內容能增強學生的理論思考及研究能力。 This course introduces students to a set of theories and concepts that will allow students to understand science and technology from multiple perspectives related, yet not confined to sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, and history. It provides introductory discussion on the major scholars and theoretical paradigms in the areas about technology and science.Then it moves on to the selected topics ranging from industrial revolution, postcolonial criticism, human-animal relationship, mobility, gender, to socialist transformation and science of mind. In particular, this course explores new ways of understanding modern East Asian history by focusing on technological adoption/adaptation, the changing technological engagement in people’ s everyday life and new technological practices, artefacts, and knowledge. This course define technology and science in broad sense. Students are expected to bring in their research topics for developing new research problems and perspectives. The course content could also be adjusted according to students’ interests and suggestions. The instructor will try his best to strengthen student’s theoretical reasoning and research capacity with course content.
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1.1. 報告及引導討論 (presentation): 每一位學生需要選擇一篇文章作報告,以及引導課堂討論。Each student choose one article for presentation and moderate class discussion (20%). 1.2. 課堂討論 (class discussion): 每一位學生需要參與課堂討論。Each student needs to participate in class discussion (20%). 1.3. 期末論文 (term paper): 每一位學生要選擇課程提及的主題,採取相關的研究論文及書籍,撰寫一篇文獻回顧,突出當中重要的爭論或問題意識。Each student choose one of the topics of this course. Collect relevant research papers and books for writing up a literature review to highlight the debates and the problematic (60%).
| 週次 | 主題 |
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| 第 1 週 | 科學、科技與文化簡論 Brief introduction to science, technology and culture -Edgerton, David. 1999. “From innovation to use: ten eclectic theses on the historiography of technology”, History and Technology 16 (2), 111- 36. -Marx, Leo. 2010. “Technology: The emergence of a hazardous concept”. Technology and Culture 51/3: 561-177. Nader, Laura. 1996. “Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries, Power, and Knowledge.” In Naked Science_ Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries, Power, and Knowledge. |
| 第 2 週 | 功能論 Functionalist theory -Merton, RK (1973), ‘The Normative Structure of Science’, in The Sociology of Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), Chapter 13 pp267-278. -Lee, Y.-N. and Walsh, J. P. (2021) ‘Rethinking Science as a Vocation: One Hundred Years of Bureaucratization of Academic Science’, Science, Technology, & Human Values. |
| 第 3 週 | 社會建構 Social Constructionism -Berger, P and Luckman, T (1966), The social construction of reality : a treatise in the sociology of knowledge (New York: Doubleday). Intro and Chapter 1. -Yearley, Steve (2005), Making Sense of Science: Understanding the Social Study of Science (London: Sage), Chapters 2-3. Schiebinger, Londa. 2004 〈「獸」何以稱為「哺乳」動物〉,《STS讀本:科技渴望性別》。 -Martin, Emily. 2004〈卵子與精子:科學如何建構一部以男女刻板性別角色為本的羅曼史〉,《STS讀本:科技渴望性別》。 |
| 第 4 週 | 傅柯取徑 Foucaultian approach -Heidegger, Martin. “The Question Concerning Technology.” -Michael C. Behrent (2013) “Foucault and Technology.” History and Technology: An International Journal, 29:1, 54-104. |
| 第 5 週 | 實驗室人類學 “Lab anthropology” -Latour, B. and Woolgar, S. (1986) Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts. Chapter 1 ‘From order to disorder’ (pp. 15-42) . -Knorr-Cetina, K (1995), ‘Laboratory Studies: The Cultural Approach to the Study of Science’ in Jasanoff S et al (eds) Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, (London: Sage) (2nd ed), 140-166. -Doing, P (2008), ‘Give me a Laboratory and I will Raise a Discipline: The Past, Present and Future Politics of Laboratory Studies in STS’, in Hackett, EJ (et al) (2008), The Handbook of Science and Technology studies(Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press) (3rd ed) |
| 第 6 週 | 現代東亞時刻 Modern East Asian moments -Elman, Benjamin. 2006. A Cultural History of Modern Science in China. Chapter 1 & 6. -Moore, Aaron Stephen. 2003. Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945. Introduction & Epilogue. -Choi, Hyungsub. "The Social Construction of Imported Technologies: Reflections on the Social History of Technology in Modern Korea." Technology and Culture, vol. 58 no. 4, 2017, p. 905-920. |
| 第 7 週 | 工業革命是科技革命嗎? Was Industrial Revolution technological revolution? -Marglin, Stephen A. “What Do Bosses Do? : The Origins and Functions of Hierarchy in Capitalist Production.” Review of Radical Political Economics 1974 6: 60-112. -Landes, David. 1986. “What do Bosses really do?” The Journal of Economic History XLVI (3): 585-623. -Berg, Maxine. 1988. “Will the real bosses please stand up? Marglin and Landes on the Origins of Capitalist Hierarchy.” -Allen, Robert. 2009. “The Industrial Revolution in Miniature: The Spinning Jenny in Britain, France, and India.” The Journal of Economic History 69(4): 901-927. |
| 第 8 週 | 殖民主義與後殖民主義 Colonialism and postcolonialism -Arnold, David. 2005. Europe, technology, and colonialism in the 20th century, History and Technology, 21:1, 85-106. -McFarlane, Colin. 2008. Governing the Contaminated City: Infrastructure and Sanitation in Colonial and Post-Colonial Bombay. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32(2): 415–35. -Harding, Sandra. 2011. Introduction: Beyond Postcolonial Theory: Two Undertheorized Perspectives on Science and Technology. In The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader. -Arnold, David. 2004,〈醫學與殖民主義〉,《STS讀本:科技渴望社會》。 -陳嘉新,2017,〈什麼是後殖民科技研究中的後殖民: 淺論其主張與啟發 〉,《科技醫療與社會》 (25)。 -許宏彬,2009,〈剖析阿片:在地滋味、科技實作 與日治初期臺灣阿片專賣〉, 《科技醫療與社會》 (8)。 -范燕秋,2008,〈「衛生」看得見::1910 年代臺灣的衛生展覽會 〉,科技醫療與社會, (7)。 |
| 第 9 週 | 流動與科技 Mobility and technologies -Steele, William. 2014, “Mobility on the Move: Rickshaws in Asia”, Transfers 4 (3):88-107. -Rhoads, Edward. 2012. “Cycles of Cathay: A History of the Bicycle in China” Transfers 2 (2): 95-120. -Green, Nicola (2002) On the Move: Technology, Mobility, and the Mediation of Social Time and Space, The Information Society, 18:4, 281-292, -Mladenović, M. N., Lehtinen, S., Soh, E., & Martens, K. (2019). Emerging Urban Mobility Technologies through the Lens of Everyday Urban Aesthetics. Essays in Philosophy, 20(2), 146–170. -黄令名,2016,〈通往「現代」的曲折軌道: 臺北捷運的詮釋彈性與科技生活形式〉,《科技醫療與社會》, (22)。 |
| 第 10 週 | 人類-動物關係 Human-animal relationships -Birke, Lydia. 2014. “Escaping the Maze: Wildness and Tameness in Studying Animal Behaviour.” In Routledge Handbook of Human-animal Studies. -Grier, Katherine. 2014. “The Material Culture of Pet Keeping.” In Routledge Handbook of Human-animal Studies. -Keck, Frederic. 2018. “A Genealogy of Animal Diseases and Social Anthropology (1870–2000).” Medical Anthropology Quarterly -雷祥麟,2020,〈國家主權與顯微鏡:滿洲鼠疫的遏制,1910-1911 〉 ,《科技醫療與社會》, 31。 |
| 第 11 週 | 科技化傳統 Technologizing the traditions -Cwiertka & Moriya. 2008. “Fermented soyfoods in South Korea. The industrialization of tradition” in Du Bois, Tan & Mintz The World of Soy. NUS: 160-181 -Lee, Victoria. 2018. “The Microbial Production of Expertise in Meiji Japan”, Osiris 33:171-190. -Kloos, Stephan. 2017. “The pharmaceutical assemblage. Rethinking Sow Rigpa and the Herbal Pharmaceutical Industry in Asia”. Current Anthropology 58/6: 693-717. -安勤之,2010,〈論中藥作為保健食品:以四物湯的生命史為 例探討藥品與食品範疇的革命〉,《科技醫療與社會》, (11)。 |
| 第 12 週 | 東亞的性別、親密關係與身份 Gender, intimacy and body in East Asia -Mareile Flitsch (2008) Knowledge, Embodiment, Skill and Risk: Anthropological Perspectives on Women's Everyday Technologies in Rural Northern China, East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, 2:2, 265-288. -Misa Matsuda (2008) Children with Keitai: When Mobile Phones Change from “Unnecessary” To “Necessary”, East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, 2:2, 167-188. |
| 第 13 週 | 社會主義對科學及科技的轉化 Socialist transformation of science and technology -Eyferth, Jacob. 2006. “Socialist Deskilling: The struggle over skills in a rural craft industry, 1949-1965” in Eyferth, Jacob ed., How China Works. Perspectives on the 20th‐century industrial workplace. Routledge: 41-58. -Pollock, Ethan. 2008. Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars. Chapter 1 & 8. |
| 第 14 週 | 心智的科學 Sciences of mind -Hook, Derek. 2007. Foucault, Psychology and the Analytics of Power, Chapter 1. -Rose, Nikolas. 2007. “Governing the Will in a Neurochemical Age.” In On Willing Selves Neoliberal Politics vis-à-vis the Neuroscientific Challenge, 81-99. -Gao, Zhipeng. 2019. From Empirical Observation to Social Intervention: The Marxization of Psychology in China, 1949–1958. Review of General Psychology 2020, Vol. 24(1) 43–59. |
| 第 15 週 | 打造資訊社會與人工智能 Making information society and AI -Peters, Benjamin. 2016. How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet. Chapter 1-3. -Halpern, Hal. 2014. Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945. Chapter 1-3. -Liu, Xiao. 2019. Information Fantasies: Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China, Introduction. -Naughton, John. 2023. ChatGPT isn’t a great leap forward, it’s an expensive deal with the devil. Guardian, 2/4 |
| 第 16 週 | 總結、課堂報告及討論 Roundup, class presentation and discussion |
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Please see the reading list
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- 第7週後學生在課堂上報告期末論文題目,並進行討論,個別晤談約容後安排。 After Week 7, each student will present his/her topic for term paper. It will be discussed in class. One-to-one consultation will also be arranged.