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Undone Science: Charting Social Movement and Civil Society Challenges to Research Agenda Setting

¹ Washington State University
² Anthropology Department, University College London
³ School of Urban & Public Affairs, University of Texas at Arlington
⁴ Chemical Heritage Foundation
⁵ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: frickel{at}wsu.edu.

	Abstract

"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."

First published on October 27, 2009
Science, Technology & Human Values 2009, doi:10.1177/0162243909345836


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