Sociology of scientific knowledge

  1. Knowledge can both politicize and depoliticize environmental conflicts
    Analysis of knowledge mobilization in environmental conflicts showing that expert and grassroots knowledge both politicize and depoliticize issues in complex, contingent ways.
  2. Iranian political science curricula reflect state-led Islamization
    Analysis of how authoritarian state policies reshape political science curricula and research in Iranian universities through ideological control and institutional mechanisms.
  3. Etymology is split into pre-modern and scientific senses
    Analysis distinguishes scientific etymology from pre-modern word origin practices, arguing that true etymological science emerged only with 19th-century historical linguistics.