Intercultural Communication and Science and Technology Studies

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Intercultural Communication and Science and Technology Studies

   • Luis Reyes-Galindo, Tiago Ribeiro Duarte

   Pages 1-21

3. Interdisciplinary Communication

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Linking the Subcultures of Physics: Virtual Empiricism and the Bonding Role of Trust

      • Luis Reyes-Galindo

      Pages 25-53

   3. Mutual Linguistic Socialisation in Interdisciplinary Collaboration

      • Tiago Ribeiro Duarte

      Pages 55-78

   4. Science and Policies of Deforestation in the Amazon: Reflecting Ethnographically on Multidisciplinary Collaboration

      • Marko Monteiro

      Pages 79-103

   5. From “Climate Sceptic” to “Dendro-Sociologist”: Considering the Role of Trust in the Communication of Science in Action

      • Meritxell Ramírez-i-Ollé

      Pages 105-122

4. Intercultural Communication Beyond Science’s Boundaries

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. Epistemic Interactions Within and Outside Scientific Communities: Different or Analogous Processes?

      • Carina G. Cortassa

      Pages 125-145

   3. ‘The Year of the Gull’: Demonisation of Wildlife, Pestilence and Science in the British Press

      • Lisa Carr, Luis Reyes-Galindo

      Pages 147-174

   4. From Trading Zones to Buffer Zones: Art and Metaphor in the Communication of Psychiatric Genetics to Publics

      • Jamie Lewis, Julia M. Thomas

      Pages 175-206

   5. Communication in International Technical Cooperation: An Anthropological Systems Approach

      • Letícia Cesarino

      Pages 207-231

5. Back Matter

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This timely and engaging book addresses communicative issues that arise when science and technology travel across socio-cultural boundaries. The authors discuss interactions between different scientific communities; scientists and policy-makers; science and the public; scientists and artists; and other situations where science clashes with other socio-cultural domains. The volume includes theoretical proposals of how to deal with intercultural communication related to science and technology, as well as rich case studies that illustrate the challenges and strategies deployed in these situations. Individual studies explore Europe, Latin America, and Africa, thus including diverse Global North and South contexts.

• Science Communication
• STS
• Cross-cultural Communication
• Science Policy
• Public Engagement with Science
• Public Understanding of Science
• Science Culture
• Sociology of Science and Technology

• State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

  Luis Reyes-Galindo

• University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil

  Tiago Ribeiro Duarte

Luis Reyes-Galindo is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Campinas, Brazil, and Honorary Research Fellow at Cardiff University’s School of Social Science, UK. He has held grants from the British Academy and the Mexican Science and Technology Council and is a member of Mexico’s National Researcher’s Network (SNI).



Tiago Ribeiro Duarte is Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Brasília, Brazil. He is interested in interdisciplinary collaboration and communication, the interface of climate science and policy-making, public participation in science, and in science and technology in Latin America.

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