Engineering and the Politics of Commensuration in the Mining and Petroleum Industries

Engineers and applied scientists form the backbone of the mining and petroleum industries, yet rarely figure in social science accounts of natural resource extraction. This article begins to fill that gap by ethnographically exploring how community conflicts have prompted engineers and applied scien...

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Main Authors: Jessica M. Smith, Nicole M. Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Social Studies of Science 2018-03-01
Series:Engaging Science, Technology, and Society
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Online Access:http://estsjournal.org/article/view/211/126