Goldsmiths - University of London

Image bar

Dr Andrew Barry

BA DPhil

Andrew Barry is Professor of Political Geography at Oxford University. Originally trained in the natural sciences, he completed a DPhil in Science and Technology Studies at SPRU, University of Sussex, and taught sociology at Goldsmiths from 1991 until 2005. Andrew’s research interests broadly revolve around the relations between science, technology and politics, and the significance of materials in political life. His most recent research has been on interdisciplinarity (2006-8), on the politics of oil in the South Caucasus (2004-10), and on the social theory of Gabriel Tarde.

 Recent Publications

 Books

  1. (2012) edited with Georgina Born, Interdisciplinarity: Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences, London: Routledge
  2. (2005) edited with Don Slater, The Technological Economy, London: Routledge
  3. (2001) Political Machines: Governing a Technological Society, London: Athlone

Articles

  1. (2010) ‘Materialist Politics: Metallurgy’ in Bruce Braun and Sarah Whatmore (eds.) Political Matter: Technoscience, Democracy and Public Life, Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 89-118
  2. (2010)  (with Georgina Born) ‘Art-Science: from Public Understanding to Public Experiment’, Journal of Cultural Economy, 3, 1, 103-119
  3. (2010) ‘Networks’, Radical Philosophy, 165, 35-41
  4. (2010) ‘Transparency as a Political Device’, in Madeleine Akrich et al (eds) Débordements, Paris: Presses des Mines, 21-40
  5. (2010) ‘Tarde’s Method: Between Statistics and Experimentation’, in Matei Candea (ed) The Social after Tarde: Debates and Assessments, London: Routledge, 177-190
  6. (2009) ‘Visible Invisibility’, New Geographies, 3, 67-74
  7. (2008)  (with Georgina Born and Gisa Weszkalnys) ‘Logics of Interdisciplinarity’, Economy and Society, 37, 1, 20-49
  8. (2007) (with Nigel Thrift) ‘Gabriel Tarde: Imitation, Invention and Economy’, Economy and Society, 36, 4, 509-525
  9. (2006) ‘Technological Zones’, European Journal of Social Theory, 9, 2, 239-253
  10. (2005) ‘Pharmaceutical Matters: the Invention of Informed Materials’, Theory, Culture and Society, 22,1, 51-69