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Dr

Darrin Durant

Senior Lecturer In Science And Technology Studies
Historical and Philosophical Studies
social sciences
arts & humanities
history & philosophy of science
politics
expertise
sociology
3rd wave
social sciences, interdisciplinary
science
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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works from 36 for Darrin Durant.

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Are Honest Brokers Good for Democracy?

Darrin Durant

Journal article  |  2022  |  SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY

In Roger Pielke Jr.’s The Honest Broker (2007) he discusses different roles a scientist can adopt when giving advice to policymake..

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A new method for computational cultural cartography: From neural word embeddings to transformers and Bayesian mixture models

John VP McLevey, Tyler Crick, Pierson Browne, Darrin Durant

Journal article  |  2022  |  CANADIAN REVIEW OF SOCIOLOGY-REVUE CANADIENNE DE SOCIOLOGIE

Recently, computational social scientists have proposed exciting new methods for 'mapping meaning space' and analysing the structu..

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Fusion Power: Big Energy Fuses with Big Spin

Darrin Durant

Journal article  |  2022  |  Arena Online

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Amazon's Ring: Surveillance as a Slippery Slope Service

Evan Selinger, Darrin Durant

Journal article  |  2021  |  SCIENCE AS CULTURE

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The Nuclear White Elephant

Darrin Durant

Journal article  |  2021  |  Arena Online

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Post-truth dystopia: Huxleyan distraction or Orwellian control?

D Durant

Book Chapter  |  2021

This chapter depicts post-truth as a politics of control through chaos. Unlike much academic and cultural-political commentary, wh..

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Experts and the Will of the People Society, Populism and Science

Harry Collins, Robert Evans, Darrin Durant, Martin Weinel

Book  |  2020

This book will be of value to scholars and practitioners working across STS as well as to anyone interested in decoding the populi..

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Australia’s nuclear fantasies: the technological creationism of nuclear power

Darrin Durant

Journal article  |  2019  |  Nuclear Monitor

Dr. Darrin Durant from Melbourne University looks beneath the surface of pro-nuclear argumentation to expose ‘Gish Gallop’ ‒ an ar..

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Nuclear Fantasies Down Under: The Political And Economic Problems With Old Money Power

Darrin Durant

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2019

The nuclear energy ‘industry’ in Australia should be dead, but somehow it keeps getting revived. Dr Darrin Durant weighs in in New..

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Ignoring Experts

Darrin Durant

Book Chapter  |  2019

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Policy and Administration
Government and Politics
Expanding Knowledge
History and Philosophy of Specific Fields
Political Science
Environmentally Sustainable Energy Activities
Sociology
Energy Transformation
Environmental Policy, Legislation and Standards
Historical Studies

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Servant or partner? The role of expertise and knowledge in democracy

Darrin Durant

Welcome to the first piece in our new occasional series Zoom Out. Here we offer authors a slightly longer essay format to widen their focus..

March 8, 2018
conversation Article
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Who are you calling 'anti-science'? How science serves social and political agendas

Darrin Durant

Florida recently passed a law that “authorizes county residents to challenge use or adoption of instructional materials” in schools. It’s b..

July 30, 2017
conversation Article

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Credentials

Positions

Senior Lecturer In Science And Technology Studies

Historical and Philosophical Studies

Member

Society for Social Studies of Science

Education

Doctorate of Philosophy

University of Toronto

Masters of Arts

University of Toronto

Bachelor of Arts (Hons)

University of Wollongong

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