Cite as:
Woodruff, Maggie. 2018. "UCI Anthro Faculty on their Favorite Books." In UCI Anthro Faculty, edited by Maggie Woodruff, James Adams, and Nandita Badami. In STS in UCI Anthro STS, edited by James Adams and Maggie Woodruff. In STS Across Borders Digital Exhibit, edited by Aalok Khandekar and Kim Fortun. Society for Social Studies of Science. August. http://stsinfrastructures.org/content/uci-anthro-faculty-their-favorite-....
Through individual interviews, several UCI Anthro faculty shared with Maggie Woodruff some of their favorite books.
This PECE essay helps to answer the STS Across Borders analytic question: "What (methodological/ theoretical/ political/ ethical) frameworks have had strong influences on this STS formation?"
This essay is part of a broader exhibit on STS at UCI Anthro.
STS Across Borders is a special exhibit organized by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) to showcase how the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) has developed in different times, places...Read more
Asked what STS books blew her mind, Valerie Olson had this to say:
Annemarie Mol, The Body Multiple - “a genius work”
Hannah Landecker, Culturing Life - “one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read”
Stefan Helmreich, Alien Ocean - “
Asked what books he recommends in terms of classic work on technology and culture , Tom Boellstorff had this to offer:
Asked what books she'd recommend, Eleana Kim had this to say:
People haven’t read Keeping Slugwoman Alive: A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts by Greg Saris enough. It could be read as part of the ontological turn.
Alien
Asked what books lead to an "aha" moment, Mei Zhan offered these:
Donna Haraway, Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science
Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern
