Title Page
Contents
DISSERTATION ABSTRACT 3
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION 7
A Science Laboratory: What is it? How does it Work? 11
Bridging Multiple Scholarship Together 13
Methods 17
Empirical Settings 19
Habitus and the Ethnographic Object 22
Chapters Overview 25
CHAPTER 2. RETHINKING SCIENTIFIC HABITUS 27
Abstract 27
Scientific Habitus: An Obsolete Concept? 28
Embodiment, Institutions, and Stratification 30
Conclusion 39
CHAPTER 3. INVISIBILIZING POLITICS 42
Abstract 42
Introduction 43
Theories of ignorance: Structure, strategy, and organization 48
Fieldwork and empirical case 54
Inside the laboratory: Lab scientists and acceptance of ignorance 62
The leaders' table: Entrepreneur scientists and the legitimation of ignorance 69
Discussion 78
CHAPTER 4. BOUNDARY-WORK AND EVERYDAY POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE AT THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE LAB BENCH 84
Abstract 84
Introduction: Manufacturing Silence 85
Boundary-Work and Everyday Politics of Knowledge 89
Fieldwork 93
Moralizing the Treadmill of Production and Consumption 95
Unseen Infrastructures: A Material Treadmill 97
Enduring the World of "Publish Or Perish": A Social Treadmill 101
"You Know What You're Doing?": Controllability of Witchcraft 105
Normalizing Self-Responsibility in a "Broken" System 108
Science ≠ Politics: Naturalizing Divisions 111
Discussion and Conclusion: Everyday Politics of Knowledge 115
CHAPTER 5. CONCLUSION 120
APPENDIX: SELF-REFLECTION AND A METHODOLOGICAL NOTE 131
BIBLIOGRAPHY 145