Book release! Unmaking Botany: Science and Vernacular Knowledge in the Colonial Philippines (Duke University Press, 2025)
Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez publishes new book, Unmaking Botany with Duke University Press. Continue Reading Book release! Unmaking Botany: Science and Vernacular Knowledge in the Colonial Philippines (Duke University Press, 2025)
Power Over Precision: Jenny Reardon featured on Computer Says Maybe podcast
Jenny Reardon, Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of Science and Justice Research Center, on the history of genomics — and the absolutely mind-melting parallels it has with the trajectory of the AI industry. Continue Reading Power Over Precision: Jenny Reardon featured on Computer Says Maybe podcast
Science and Social Justice: Jenny Reardon featured on Digital Science
Professor Jenny Reardon, Professor of Sociology at the University of California Santa Cruz, and the Founder of Science and Justice Research Center on the politicization of research. Continue Reading Science and Social Justice: Jenny Reardon featured on Digital Science
Publication: new “Race and Health” entry in Oxford Bibliographies
Sociology Associate Professor and SJRC Co-Director James Doucet-Battle publishes a new “Race and Health” entry in Oxford Bibliographies. The selected bibliography offers a genealogy of scholarship on the topic over the last century and a half. Continue Reading Publication: new “Race and Health” entry in Oxford Bibliographies
A conjunctural analysis of the origins of ‘embedded ELSI’ in U.S. genomic medicine
SJRC’s LEED of STEMM published a new article! The paper, “A conjunctural analysis of the origins of ‘embedded ELSI’ in U.S. genomic medicine” is available open access from The Journal of Responsible Innovation. It calls for an embedded approach, where ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) researchers are situated within larger scientific research studies. Learn… Continue Reading A conjunctural analysis of the origins of ‘embedded ELSI’ in U.S. genomic medicine
Book release! The Problem with Solutions: Why Silicon Valley Can’t Hack the Future of Food (University of California Press, 2024)
Julie Guthman releases new book, “The Problem with Solutions: Why Silicon Valley Can’t Hack the Future of Food” with University of California Press. Continue Reading Book release! The Problem with Solutions: Why Silicon Valley Can’t Hack the Future of Food (University of California Press, 2024)
Book release! Toxic City: Redevelopment and Environmental Justice in San Francisco (University of California Press, 2024)
Lindsey Dillon releases new book, “Toxic City: Redevelopment and Environmental Justice in San Francisco” with University of California Press. Continue Reading Book release! Toxic City: Redevelopment and Environmental Justice in San Francisco (University of California Press, 2024)
Cells and the city: The rise and fall of urban biopolitics in San Francisco, 1970–2020
SJRC’s Just Biomedicine Research Group published an article in Social Studies of Science examining how the logics of speculative revitalization imagine a future in which cities and biomedicine produce wealth and health harmoniously together. Continue Reading Cells and the city: The rise and fall of urban biopolitics in San Francisco, 1970–2020