{"product_id":"science-interrupted-rethinking-research-practice-with-bureaucracy-agroforestry-and-ethnography-9781501773327","title":"Science Interrupted: Rethinking Research Practice with Bureaucracy, Agroforestry, and Ethnography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eScience Interrupted\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e examines how scientists in China pursue environmental sustainability within the constraints of domestic and international bureaucracies.\u003c\/b\u003e Timothy G. McLellan offers a theoretical framework for analyzing the formal procedural work of Chinese bureaucracy--work that is overlooked when China scholars restrict their gaze to the informal and interpersonal channels through which bureaucracy is often navigated. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoming in on an agroforestry research organization in southwest China, the author takes the experiences of the organization's staff in navigating diverse international funding regimes and authoritarian state institutions as entry points for understanding the pervasiveness of bureaucracy in contemporary science. He asks: What if we take the tools, sensibilities, and practices of bureaucracies seriously not only as objects of critique but as resources for re-thinking scientific practice? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExtending a mode of anthropological research in which ethnography serves as source of theory as well as source of data, \u003ci\u003eScience Interrupted\u003c\/i\u003e thinks with, and not only against, bureaucracy. McLellan shows that ethnographic engagement with bureaucracy enables us to imagine more democratic and more collaborative modes of scientific practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTimothy G. McLellan is a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology at Thammasat University. He has published articles in \u003ci\u003eSocial Studies of Science\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50394205126930,"sku":"9781501773327","price":159.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0d8b095f-3eea-4ddc-9666-e5b834a1cd08.jpg?v=1728999354","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/science-interrupted-rethinking-research-practice-with-bureaucracy-agroforestry-and-ethnography-9781501773327","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}