Open Panel #111
Money for nothing? Science between Markets and Politics
Session organizer: Paolo Parra Saiani, University of Genoa, Italy (paolo.parra.saiani@unige.it )
Many factors influence a scientist’s choice of research problem: past interests and training, serendipitous yet consequential encounters with new collaborators, expertise, or information, institutional context or disciplinary culture; commercial opportunities, pressures, and commercially related policies can change the composition of scientific research and the choices that guide it. As stated by Agger, “research agendas reflect what gets funded”, so it is no surprise that searching for external funding is having an impact on the research agendas of individual faculty members, as research is being pursued based on donors’ interests. Bourdieu stated that “There is no scientific choice – choice of area of research, choice of methods, choice of a publication outlet, or the choice […] of quick publication of partially verified results (as over later publication of results that are thoroughly checked) – that does not constitute, in one or other of its aspects, a social strategy of investment aimed at maximizing the specific profit, inseparably political and scientific, provided by the field, and that could not be understood as a product of the relation between a position in the field and the dispositions (habitus) of its occupant” (1991: 9-10).
This session wants to contribute to the STS discussion on freedom in science, but also to its accountability. In times of “neo-liberal scientism” (Daza: 2012) or ‘academic capitalism’ (Slaughter and Rhoades: 2004), what are the trends in social sciences? Priority will be given to empirical works, based on qualitative or quantitative techniques, that analyze the development of science (in the broad sense: biology, economics, political science, sociology, etc.).
Deadline for submission: 29 February 2020
Details for submissions and conference website: https://www.easst4s2020prague.
Feel free to contact me.
Best wishes,
Paolo Parra Saiani
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Paolo Parra Saiani, PhD
Associate Professor in Sociology
PhD in Sociology
Director of the Curriculum in Political Sciences, PhD in Social Sciences
University of Genova - Italy
Department of Political Sciences
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