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  1. Reversibility and Nuclear Energy Production Technologies: A Framework and Three Cases.Jan Peter Bergen - 2016 - Ethics, Policy and Environment 19 (1):37-59.
    Recent events have put the acceptability of the risks of nuclear energy production technologies under the spotlight. A focus on risks, however, could lead to the neglect of other aspects of NEPT, such as their irreversibility. I argue that awareness of the socio-historical development of NEPT is helpful for understanding their irreversibility. To this end, I conceptualize NEPT development as a process of structuration in which material, institutional and discursive elements are produced and/or reproduced by purposive social actors. This conceptualization (...)
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  • Fallacies of Virtualization: A Case Study of Farming, Manure, Landscapes, and Dutch Rural Policy.Bettina B. Bock & Wiebren J. Boonstra - 2009 - Science, Technology, and Human Values 34 (4):427-448.
    The recent rapprochement between Science and Technology Studies and Political Science is induced by the broadened understanding of political action. The debate concerning the nature of ``the political'' produces an important question concerning the possibilities of an issue- or object-oriented focus for understanding political action. The purpose of this article is to contribute to this debate through an analysis of how relations between material and social entities are continuously recontextualized and decontextualized in social and political interaction. The authors discuss established (...)
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