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100	1	0	_aVinck, Dominique _eauthor
700	1	0	_a Zarama, Gloria _eauthor
245	0	0	_aThe Laboratory Merger
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520			_aThis article focuses on the merging of two laboratories. It explores this merger from the point of view of the specific social, organisational, technological and cognitive dynamics that it generates. Studying these provides access to processes that are by and large ignored in studies of the sciences, i.e. how such situations are managed. It therefore offers a comprehensive overview of the dynamics at work and which lead to the setting up of a new laboratory, as well as the practices and discourse of laboratory members with respect to the merge. Portrayed, in literature and by those involved, as an ideal entity for producing scientific knowledge, the laboratory is here questioned. The situation studied, in which two laboratories are encouraged to merge, calls into question the very nature of these laboratories (both before and after the merge) and the dynamics at work. These are conceptualised in terms of uncoupling, detachment, framing and embeddedness. The research is based on observation carried out in the field and interviews with the actors. The ethnographic survey questions dimensions relating to laboratory life, which are usually studied very little. It attempts to report on the processes at work and document the way the laboratories are transformed. It underlines the importance of the management processes and the stakes these represent for the researchers with respect to their work strategy. It portrays scientific activity as an object of management, whose modes of existence we attempt to explain.
786	0		_nRevue d'anthropologie des connaissances | 1o 2 | 2 | 2007-07-01 | p. 267-296
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-anthropologie-des-connaissances-2007-2-page-267?lang=en
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