STS Readings

By Theme

Car Cultures in Asia

Elder Care Technologies in Asia

Family Planning Technologies in Asia

Parenting Mobile Phone use in Asia

Reproductive Technologies in East Asia

Urban Infrastructure in Asia

General
  • Akrich, Madekeine. “The De-Scription of Technical Objects.” In Shaping Technology, Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. (1992): 205–24.
  • Akrich, Madekeine, and Bruno Latour. “A Summary of a Convenient Vocabulary for the Semiotics of Human and Nonhuman Assemblies.” In Shaping Technology, Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. (1992): 259–64.
  • Arnold, David, and Erich DeWald. “Everyday Technology in South and Southeast Asia: An introduction.” Modern Asian Studies 46, no. 1 (2012): 1-17.
  • Bestor, Theodore C. “Disasters, natural and unnatural: reflections on March 11, 2011, and its aftermath.” The Journal of Asian Studies 72, no. 4 (2013): 763-782.
  • Bijker, Wiebe E., and John Law, eds. Shaping Technology / Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change. The MIT Press, 1992.
  • Bray, Francesca. “Tales of fertility: reproductive narratives in late imperial China.” In Variantology 3: On deep time relations of arts, sciences and technologies in China and elsewhere, pp. 93-114. König, 2008.
  • Bray, Francesca. The rice economies: technology and development in Asian societies. Univ of California Press, 1994.
  • Callon, Michel. Acting in an uncertain world. MIT press, 2009.
  • Callon, Michel. “Some elements of a sociology of translation: domestication of the scallops and the fishermen of St Brieuc Bay.” The Sociological Review 32, no. 1_suppl (1984): 196-233.
  • Clancey, Gregory. “Disasters as Change Agents: Three Earthquakes and Three Japans.” East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal 5, no. 3 (2011): 395–402.
  • Collier, Stephen J. “Enacting catastrophe: preparedness, insurance, budgetary rationalization.” Economy and society37, no. 2 (2008): 224-250.
  • Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. “The” industrial revolution” in the home: Household technology and social change in the 20th century.” Technology and Culture (1976): 1-23.
  • Davis, Deborah, and Helen F. Siu, eds. SARS: reception and interpretation in three Chinese cities. Vol. 10. Routledge, 2006.
  • Davis-Floyd, R., and Joseph Dumit, eds. Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots. First Edition edition. New York: Routledge, 1998.
  • Davis-Floyd, Robbie E. “The technocratic body: American childbirth as cultural expression.” Social Science & Medicine38, no. 8 (1994): 1125-1140.
  • Davis-Floyd, Robbie. “The technocratic, humanistic, and holistic paradigms of childbirth.” International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics 75 (2001): S5-S23.
  • Dugdale, Anni. “Materiality: juggling sameness and difference.” The Sociological Review 47, no. S1 (1999): 113-135.
  • Dusinberre, Martin, and Daniel P. Aldrich. “Hatoko comes home: civil society and nuclear power in Japan.” The Journal of Asian Studies 70, no. 3 (2011): 683-705.
  • Elvin, Mark. The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
  • Elvin, Mark. “Who Was Responsible for the Weather? Moral Meteorology in Late Imperial China.” Osiris 13 (1998): 213–37.
  • George, Rose. The Big Necessity: The unmentionable world of human waste and why it matters. Macmillan, 2008.
  • Gidwani, Vinay, and Rajyashree N. Reddy. “The afterlives of “waste”: Notes from India for a minor history of capitalist surplus.” Antipode 43, no. 5 (2011): 1625-1658.
  • Gille, Zsuzsa. “Actor networks, modes of production, and waste regimes: reassembling the macro-social.” Environment and Planning A 42, no. 5 (2010): 1049-1064.
  • Gille, Zsuzsa. From the cult of waste to the trash heap of history: The politics of waste in socialist and postsocialist Hungary. Indiana University Press, 2007.
  • Gooday, Graeme JN, and Morris F. Low. “Technology transfer and cultural exchange: Western scientists and engineers encounter late Tokugawa and Meiji Japan.” Osiris 13 (1998): 99-128.
  • Gottschang, Suzanne Z. “Infant Feeding and the Feminine Body in Urban China.” China urban: Ethnographies of contemporary culture (2001).
  • Gottschang, Suzanne Zhang. “Maternal Bodies, Breast‐Feeding, and Consumer Desire in Urban China.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 21, no. 1 (2007): 64-80.
  • Holdaway, Jennifer. “Environment and health research in China: The state of the field.” The China Quarterly 214 (2013): 255-282.
  • Hughes, Thomas P. “The evolution of large technological systems.” The social construction of technological systems: New directions in the sociology and history of technology (1987): 51-82.
  • Hughes, Thomas Parke. Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930. JHU Press, 1993.
  • Ingold, Tim. Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description. Taylor & Francis, 2011.
  • Ingold, Tim. “Beyond Art and Technology: The Anthropology of Skill.” In Anthropological Perspectives on Technology, UNM Press, (2001): 17–31.
  • Ingold, Tim. The perception of the environment: essays on livelihood, dwelling and skill. Psychology Press, 2000.
  • Ingold, Tim. “When ANT meets SPIDER: Social theory for arthropods.” In Material Agency, pp. 209-215. Springer US, 2008.
  • Jasanoff, Sheila. “Ordering Knowledge, Ordering Society.” In States of Knowledge: The Co-Production of Science and the Social Order, 13–45. Routledge, 2004.
  • Jasanoff, Sheila, ed. States of knowledge: the co-production of science and the social order. Routledge, 2004.
  • Jasanoff, Sheila. “The idiom of co-production.” In States of knowledge: The co-production of science and social order (2004): 1-12.
  • Jing, Shao. “Fluid labor and blood money: the economy of HIV/AIDS in rural central China.” Cultural Anthropology 21, no. 4 (2006): 535-569.
  • Kaviraj, Sudipta. “Filth and the public sphere: Concepts and practices about space in Calcutta.” Public culture 10, no. 1 (1997): 83-113.
  • Kira, Alexander. The bathroom: new and expanded ed. Viking Press, 1976.
  • Klein, Jakob A. “Everyday approaches to food safety in Kunming.” The China Quarterly 214 (2013): 376-393.
  • Lee, Jung. “Invention without Science:” Korean Edisons” and the Changing Understanding of Technology in Colonial Korea.” Technology and Culture 54, no. 4 (2013): 782-814.
  • Lemonnier, Pierre. Mundane objects: Materiality and non-verbal communication. Vol. 10. Left Coast Press, 2012.
  • Lemonnier, Pierre. “Technological Choices: transformations in material cultures since the Neolithic.” London and New York: Routledge (1993).
  • Leung, Angela Ki Che, and Charlotte Furth, eds. Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century. Duke University Press, 2010.
  • Leung, Ricky C. “Network building in the innovation journey: how Chinese science institutes jump on the nanotech Bandwagon.” East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal 6, no. 2 (2012): 167-197.
  • Li, Tania Murray. The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics. Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2007.
  • Lin, Chung-hsi. “The Silenced Technology—the Beauty and Sorrow of Reassembled Cars.” East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal 3, no. 1 (2009): 91-131.
  • Lin, Patrick, Keith Abney, and George A. Bekey. Robot ethics: the ethical and social implications of robotics. MIT press, 2011.
  • Lora-Wainwright, Anna. “An Anthropology of ‘Cancer Villages’: villagers’ perspectives and the politics of responsibility.” Journal of Contemporary China 19, no. 63 (2010): 79-99.
  • Lora-Wainwright, Anna. “Introduction. Dying for Development: Pollution, Illness and the Limits of Citizens’ Agency in China.” The China Quarterly 214 (2013): 243-254.
  • Lora-Wainwright, Anna. “The inadequate life: rural industrial pollution and lay epidemiology in China.” The China Quarterly 214 (2013): 302-320.
  • Low, Morris F. “Technological Culture.” In The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, (2009): 130–46.
  • MacKenzie, Donald A. Knowing Machines: Essays on Technical Change. MIT Press, 1998.
  • MacKenzie, D., and J. Wajcman. “The social shaping of technology: how the refrigerator got its hum, 2nd edn, first pub. 1985.” (1999).
  • Maines, Rachel P. Hedonizing Technologies: Paths to Pleasure in Hobbies and Leisure. JHU Press, 2009.
  • Matsuda, Misa. “Children with Keitai: When Mobile Phones Change from “Unnecessary” to “Necessary”.” East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal 2, no. 2 (2008): 167-188.
  • Oldenziel, Ruth, and Karin Zachmann. Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology, and European Users. Inside Technology. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2009.
  • Pfaffenberger, Bryan. “Social anthropology of technology.” Annual review of Anthropology 21, no. 1 (1992): 491-516.
  • Ross, Alec. The Industries of the Future. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2016.
  • Santos, Goncalo D. “Multiple mothering and labor migration in rural South China.” Transforming Patriarchy. Chinese Families in the Twenty-First Century (2016).
  • Santos, Gonçalo D. “Rethinking the green revolution in South China: technological materialities and human-environment relations.” East Asian Science, Technology and Society 5, no. 4 (2011): 479-504.
  • Santos, Gonçalo D. “Technological choices and modern civilizing processes. Reflections on toilet practices in rural South China.” Anthropology and Civilizational Analysis. (2015).
  • Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. Disenchanted night: The industrialization of light in the nineteenth century. Univ of California Press, 1995.
  • Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1986.
  • Siniawer, Eiko Maruko. ““Affluence of the Heart”: Wastefulness and the Search for Meaning in Millennial Japan.” The Journal of Asian Studies 73, no. 1 (2014): 165-186.
  • Srinivas, Tulasi. “Flush with success: Bathing, defecation, worship, and social change in South India.” Space and Culture5, no. 4 (2002): 368-386.
  • Sternsdorff‐Cisterna, Nicolas. “Food after Fukushima: Risk and scientific citizenship in Japan.” American Anthropologist117, no. 3 (2015): 455-467.
  • Strasser, Susan. Waste and want: A social history of trash. Macmillan, 2000.
  • Thornton, Patricia M. “Crisis and Governance: SARS and the Resilience of the Chinese Body Politic.” The China Journal, no. 61 (2009): 23–48.
  • Volti, Rudi. “A Car for the Great Asian Multitude.” Technology and Culture 49, no. 4 (2008): 995–1001.
  • Wang, Hsien-Chun. “Discovering Steam Power in China, 1840s–1860s.” Technology and Culture 51, no. 1 (2010): 31–54.
  • Wong, Cindy Hing‐Yuk, and Gary W. McDonogh. “The mediated metropolis: anthropological issues in cities and mass communication.” American anthropologist 103, no. 1 (2001): 96-111.
  • Wu, Xiujie. “Men Purchase, Women Use: Coping with Domestic Electrical Appliances in Rural China.” East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal 2, no. 2 (2008): 211–234.
  • Xu, Bing. Book from the Ground: from point to point. MASS MoCA, 2013.
  • Zhan, Mei. “Human Oriented?: Angels and Monsters in China’s Health-Care Reform.” East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal 5, no. 3 (2011): 291–311.