The idea that experiments represent key settings and instruments for participation in public
affairs has acquired a distinctly contemporary flavor. Social and political experiments feature …

The post-World War II period gave rise to a large number of social-scientific techniques for
investigating and intervening in social reality. A particular group of these, exemplified here …

A diverse range of commemorative practices developed in the wake of the First World War
as collective means for performing private trauma and loss. Public commemorative silence …

against cancer by playing a hang-glider arcade type of game. During the game, the players
glide in space and collect valuable space dust and at the same time identify negative …

This paper argues for a line of inquiry in the intersection between migration studies and STS
work around the notion of material politics in alternative spaces. Drawing on multisited …

Social sciences—from behavioural economics to social psychology—are increasingly
enrolled in policy, market, and activist endeavours in the area of environmental change. In …

The popularity of social technologies continues to grow in the society. The term social
technology is often referred to digital social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn …

The dream of control over human behaviour is an old dream, shared by many cultures. This
fascinating account of the histories of human engineering describes how technologies of …

Psychologist BF Skinner developed and promoted a technology of behavior as the basis for
widespread social reform over much of his career. In 1948, he published his behaviorally …

This thesis is an ethnographic study of rights restitution as an arrangement that establishes
boundaries, and how those boundaries are translated, challenged, and exceeded …