Frickel Scott, Gibbon Sahra, Howard Jeff, Kempner Joanna, Ottinger Gwen, Hess David J
Department of Sociology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington.
Anthropology Department, University College London, London.
Sci Technol Human Values. 2010 Jul 1;35(4):444-473. doi: 10.1177/0162243909345836. Epub 2009 Oct 27.
"Undone science" refers to areas of research that are left unfunded, incomplete, or generally ignored but that social movements or civil society organizations often identify as worthy of more research. This study mobilizes four recent studies to further elaborate the concept of undone science as it relates to the political construction of research agendas. Using these cases, we develop the argument that undone science is part of a broader politics of knowledge, wherein multiple and competing groups struggle over the construction and implementation of alternative research agendas. Overall, the study demonstrates the analytic potential of the concept of undone science to deepen understanding of the systematic nonproduction of knowledge in the institutional matrix of state, industry, and social movements that is characteristic of recent calls for a "new political sociology of science."
“未竟科学”指的是那些未获资助、未完成或普遍被忽视的研究领域，但社会运动或民间社会组织常常认为这些领域值得进行更多研究。本研究运用四项近期研究，进一步阐述与研究议程的政治建构相关的未竟科学概念。通过这些案例，我们提出这样的观点：未竟科学是更广泛的知识政治的一部分，在这一知识政治中，多个相互竞争的群体围绕替代研究议程的建构与实施展开斗争。总体而言，该研究证明了未竟科学概念在深化对国家、产业和社会运动制度矩阵中知识系统性非生产的理解方面的分析潜力，这也是近期对“新科学政治社会学”呼吁的特点所在。
