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Overview

Wiebe E. Bijker is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands and specializes in Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Biomedical Engineering, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, and Business and International Management.

The research topics covered by Bijker's work encompass biofuel production and bioconversion, bioeconomy and sustainability development, photovoltaic systems and sustainability, sustainability and climate change governance, innovation and socioeconomic development, as well as education, healthcare, and sociology research.

Bijker has authored publications in diverse academic venues, including:

  • Science Technology and Society
  • East Asian Science Technology and Society An International Journal
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Bijker include:

  • Technoscientific Dialogues. Expertise, Democracy and Technological Cultures, 2023, DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
  • Responsible Research and Innovation in the Global South: Agriculture, Renewable Energy and the Pursuit of Symmetry, 2020, Science Technology and Society
  • "All We Want, Is to Get Rid of the Straw": How Biofuel Policies Need to Be Multiple, 2021, East Asian Science Technology and Society An International Journal

Bijker frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Poonam Pandey, Govert Valkenburg, Annapurna Mamidipudi, Andrew Nelson, and Sonja Schmid.

Best Publications

  • The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology might Benefit Each Other:

    Trevor J. Pinch;Wiebe E. Bijker

  • The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology

    Wiebe E. Bijker;Thomas Parke Hughes;T. J. Pinch

  • Science in action : How to follow scientists and engineers through society

    Wiebe E. Bijker;Bruno Latour

  • Shaping technology, building society : studies in sociotechnical change

    Wiebe E. Bijker;John Law

  • Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change

    Wiebe E. Bijker

  • The Paradox of Scientific Authority: The Role of Scientific Advice in Democracies

    Wiebe E. Bijker;Roland Bal;Ruud Hendriks

  • How is technology made?—That is the question!

    Wiebe E. Bijker

  • Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change.

    Terry Smith;Wiebe E. Bijker

  • The social construction of bakelite: toward a theory of invention

    Wiebe E. Bijker

  • Constructing a City: The Cerdà Plan for the Extension of Barcelona:

    Eduardo Aibar;Wiebe E. Bijker

  • Do Not Despair: There Is Life after Constructivism

    Wiebe E. Bijker

  • The social construction of technology

    Wiebe E. Bijker

  • The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology

    Susan E. Cozzens;Wiebe E. Bijker;Thomas P. Hughes;Trevor Pinch

  • Sociohistorical technology studies

    Wiebe E. Bijker

  • Dikes and Dams, Thick with Politics

    Wiebe E. Bijker

  • Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change

    Thomas F. Gieryn;Wiebe E. Bijker;John Law

  • Techno therapy or nurtured niches? Technology studies and the evaluation of radical innovations

    Anique Hommels;Peter Peters;Wiebe E. Bijker

  • The Oosterschelde Storm Surge Barrier. A Test Case for Dutch Water Technology, Management and Politics

    Wiebe E. Bijker

  • Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change

    Jeffrey L. Meikle;Wiebe E. Bijker

  • Mobilising Discourses Handloom as Sustainable Socio-Technology

    Annapurna Mamidipudi;B. Shyamasundari;W.E. Bijker

  • American and Dutch coastal engineering: differences in risk conception and differences in technological culture

    Wiebe E. Bijker

Frequent Co-Authors

Trevor Pinch
Trevor Pinch Cornell University
John Law
John Law The Open University
Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour Sciences Po
Robert W. Sauerwein
Robert W. Sauerwein Radboud University
Steve Woolgar
Steve Woolgar University of Oxford
Harold Maurice Collins
Harold Maurice Collins Cardiff University

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