{"id":216,"date":"2014-02-10T15:58:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T20:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/?p=216"},"modified":"2014-02-10T15:58:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T20:58:49","slug":"faculty-candidate-presentation-2-jessica-koski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/2014\/02\/10\/faculty-candidate-presentation-2-jessica-koski\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Candidate Presentation #2 &#8211; Jessica Koski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>STS Majors and minors, please note that the candidate presentations CAN serve as cocurricular events &#8211;<\/strong> All presentations will end at 12:55 with a Q&amp;A to follow.\u00a0 Students and faculty with 1:00 classes can leave when necessary.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jessica Koski, Ph.D Candidate in Sociology, Northwestern University, degree expected June 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, February 11th, 12:15-1:15, PB205<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Presentation title:<\/strong><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong> <\/strong><em>&#8220;Social Constructionism and Global Warming: Friends or Foes?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><strong>Summary:\u00a0 <\/strong>Science and technology studies (STS) scholars have devoted significant attention to how climate change is \u201cconstructed\u201d as a scientific and political problem.\u00a0 But such work is not without controversy.\u00a0 Many researchers charge that social constructionist accounts of global warming fuel climate skepticism and, as a result, impede policymaking.\u00a0 Are constructionist analyses worth the risk?\u00a0 Drawing on research on the mutual production of climate science and climate politics, this talk discusses the promises and perils of social constructionist investigations of environmental concerns.\u00a0 Classic constructionist accounts underscore how powerful actors distort science to serve particular ends.\u00a0 Such interest-based accounts deliver a powerful blow to science&#8217;s public credibility for many view \u201cgood\u201d science as that which is untouched by politics.\u00a0 At the same time, the lens of social construction also brings to light the ways in which social variables shape scientific practice itself.\u00a0 Better understanding the co-production of political and scientific agendas, as well as how politics is built into scholars\u2019 research design, may spur more nuanced and reflexive debate.\u00a0 It also has the potential to unveil sources of political gridlock.\u00a0 However, it too requires acknowledging science\u2019s inherent social component.\u00a0 This review encourages a reevaluation of how we differentiate between \u201cgood\u201d and \u201cbad\u201d science and further pushes us to consider more explicitly the role of STS scholarship (and scholars) in policy debates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STS Majors and minors, please note that the candidate presentations CAN serve as cocurricular events &#8211; All presentations will end at 12:55 with a Q&amp;A to follow.\u00a0 Students and faculty with 1:00 classes can leave when necessary.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Koski, Ph.D Candidate in Sociology, Northwestern University, degree expected June 2014<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, February 11th, 12:15-1:15, PB205<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212304,251,11974],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cocurricular-events","category-employment","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}