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Govert Valkenburg, Annapurna Mamidipudi, Poonam Pandey, Wiebe E. Bijker (2019)

Responsible innovation as empowering ways of knowing

Valkenburg, G., Mamidipudi, A., Pandey, P., & Bijker, W. E. (2019). Responsible innovation as empowering ways of knowing. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 1-20. doi:10.1080/23299460.2019.1647087.

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Mårten Söderblom Saarela (2016)

The Chinese periphery to c. 1800

Söderblom Saarela, M. (2019). The Chinese periphery to c. 1800. In J. Considine (Ed.), The Cambridge World History of Lexicography (pp. 202-222). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Rival Theories of Aerofoil, 1904–26

By the time of the First World War of 1914–18 the aeroplane had become established as an effective and vital piece of technology. Its practical succes
Funding Institutions, University of Edinburgh, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
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The Relation between the Market and the Making: Song to Mid-Qing Coal Culture

This research project on the history of science in China attempts to frame technology and natural knowledge as an integral part of broader sociocultur
Publications, Grace Yen Shen. "Taking to the Field: Geological Fieldwork and National Identity in Republican China." Osiris 24 (1 2009)
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The Emergence of Expertise: Professional Cultures and the Development of Occupations

This project searched for the implicit and explicit signs of the incorporation of practical knowledge into the examination system. Focusing mainly on
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Artist in Residence: Critical Fabulations, Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design

This project responds to the devastating range of unintentional consequences connected to material choices in technological developments. From the mil
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Games of Chance and Mathematical Knowledge in Late Ming and Qing China

Recently, historians of law, economy, literature, and art in China have become increasingly interested in daily life encyclopedia (lit. Complete Books
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Reading Group | Sep 13, 2019  |  12:00 to 13:30

Troubling Epistemics and Postcolonialism

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Der Mensch schafft Probleme

Leitende Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Ursula Klein diskutiert in der rbb Abendschau A. von Humboldt

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Der Mensch schafft Probleme

Research Scholar Ursula Klein appears on rbb Abendschau discussing Alexander von Humboldt

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