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Book Chapters

Kearnes M; Rickards L, 2020, 'Knowing Earth, Knowing Soil: Epistemological Work and the Political Aesthetics of Regenerative Agriculture', in Thinking with Soils, Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 71 - 88, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350109568.ch-005

Tironi M; Kearnes M; Krzywoszynska A; Granjou C; Salazar JF, 2020, 'Soil Theories: Relational, Decolonial, Inhuman', in Salazar JF; Granjou C; Kearnes M; Krzywoszynska A; Tironi M (ed.), Thinking with Soils: Material Politics and Social Theory, pp. 15 - 15

Salazar JF; Granjou C; Krzywoszynska A; Tironi M; Kearnes M, 2020, 'Thinking-with Soils: An Introduction', in Salazar JF; Granjou C; Kearnes M; Krzywoszynska A; Tironi M (ed.), Thinking with Soils: Material Politics and Social Theory, Bloomsbury, London, pp. 1 - 13

Kearnes MB, 2016, 'Knowing and not knowing climate change: pedagogy for a new dispensation', in Hall S; LeMenager S; Siperstein S (ed.), Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities, Routledge, Abingdon Oxon, pp. 37 - 45

Kearnes M, 2016, 'Miraculous engineering and the climate emergency: Climate modification as divine economy', in Technofutures, Nature and the Sacred: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Taylor & Francis, pp. 219 - 237, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315611952

Chilvers J; Kearnes MB, 2016, 'Participation in the making: Rethinking public engagement in co-productionist terms', in Chilvers J; Kearnes MB (ed.), Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and Emergent Publics, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN, pp. 31 - 63, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203797693

Chilvers J; Kearnes MB, 2016, 'Remaking participation practice: towards reflexive engagement', in Chilvers J; Kearnes MB (ed.), Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and Emergent Publics, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 261 - 288, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203797693

Chilvers J; Kearnes MB, 2016, 'Science, democracy and emergent publics', in Chilvers J; Kearnes MB (ed.), Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and Emergent Publics, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN, pp. 1 - 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203797693

Chilvers J; Kearnes M, 2015, 'Participation in the making: Rethinking public engagement in co-productionist terms', in Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and Emergent Publics, pp. 31 - 63

Chilvers J; Kearnes M, 2015, 'Remaking participation: Towards reflexive engagement', in Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and Emergent Publics, pp. 261 - 288

Chilvers J; Kearnes M, 2015, 'Science, democracy and emergent publics', in Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and Emergent Publics, pp. 1 - 27

Kearnes M, 2015, 'Miraculous engineering and the climate emergency: Climate modification as divine economy', in Technofutures, Nature and the Sacred: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Taylor & Francis, pp. 219 - 237

Kearnes MB; Klauser FR; Lane SN, 2012, 'Introduction: Risk Research after Fukushima', in , pp. 1 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119962748.ch1

Kearnes MB; Klauser FR; Lane SN, 2012, 'Preface', in , http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119962748

Lane S; Klauser F; Kearnes M, 2012, 'Conclusion: Reflections on 'Critical' Risk Research', in Lane SN; Klauser FR; Kearnes MB (ed.), Critical Risk Research: Practices, Politics and Ethics, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 219 - 238

Kearnes M; Klauser F; Lane S, 2012, 'Risk Research after Fukushima', in Lane SN; Klauser FR; Kearnes MB (ed.), Critical Risk Research: Practices, Politics and Ethics, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 1 - 20

Kearnes M, 2012, 'Technologies of risk and responsibility: attesting to the truth of novel things', in Lane SN; Klauser FR; Kearnes MB (ed.), Critical Risk Research: Practices, Politics and Ethics, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 125 - 148

Davies S; Kearnes M; Macnaghten P, 2010, 'Nanotechnology and Public Engagement', in Nano Meets Macro, Pan Stanford Publishing, pp. 473 - 499, http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b11126-33

Davies S; Macnaghten P; Kearnes M, 2010, 'Narrative and public engagement: some findings from the DEEPEN project', in von Schomberg R; Davies S (ed.), Understanding Public Debate on Nanotechnologies: Options For Framing Public, European Commission, Brussels, pp. 13 - 29

Wienroth M; Kearnes M, 2010, 'Science policy as discourse: the governance of nanotechnology in the United Kingdom', in Feideler U; Coenen C; Davies S; Ferrari A (ed.), Understanding Nanotechnology: Philosophy, Policy and Publics, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Heidelberg, pp. 101 - 120

Degen M; Whatmore S; Hinchliffe S; Kearnes M, 2010, 'The urban green: passionate involvements with urban natures', in Miles M; Degen M (ed.), Culture & Agency, University of Plymouth Press, Plymouth, pp. 62 - 82

Kearnes M; Doubleday R, 2010, 'United Kingdom', in SAGE Encyclopaedia of Nanoscience and Society, SAGE, London

Davies S; Kearnes M; Macnaghten P, 2009, 'Nanotechnology and Public Engagement: A New Kind of (Social) Science?', in Kjølberg K; Wickern F (ed.), Nano meets Macro: Social Perspectives on Nanosciences and Technologies, Pan Stanford, Singapore, pp. 473 - 500

Kearnes M, 2009, 'Nanotechnology and the constitution of the social', in Gammel S; Ferrari, A (ed.), Visions of Nanotechnology, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin

Kearnes M; Rip A, 2009, 'The emerging governance landscape of nanotechnology', in Gammel S; Lösch A; Nordmann A (ed.), Jenseits von Regulierung: Zum politischen Umgang mit der Nanotechnologie, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin

Kearnes M, 2009, 'The time of science: deliberation and the ‘new governance’ of nanotechnology', in Maasen S; Kaiser M; Kurath M; Rehmann-Sutter C (ed.), Governing Future Technologies: Nanotechnology and the Rise of an Assessment Regime, (Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook) Springer, Heidelberg

Hinchliffe S; Kearnes M; Degen M; Whatmore S, 2008, 'Urban wild things: a cosmopolitical experiment', in Contemporary Movements in Planning Theory: 3, Ashgate, pp. 501 - 516, http://aldershot/

Edited Books

Salazar JF; Granjou C; Kearnes M; Krzywoszynska A; Tironi M, (eds.), 2020, Thinking with Soils: Material Politics and Social Theory, Bloomsbury, London

Chilvers J; Kearnes MB; Kearnes MB, (eds.), 2016, Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and Emergent Publics, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203797693

Kearnes M; Klauser F; Lane S, (eds.), 2012, Critical Risk Research: Practices, Politics and Ethics, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford

Journal articles

Braine MF; Kearnes M; Khan SJ, 2024, 'Quality and risk management frameworks for biosolids: An assessment of current international practice', Science of the Total Environment, 915, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.169953

Neale T; Dahlgren K; Howey K; Kearnes M, 2023, 'Converging old and new carbon frontiers in northern Australia', Area, 55, pp. 523 - 531, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/area.12893

Munro PG; Samarakoon S; Kearnes M; Paisley C, 2023, 'The right to repairable energy: A political ecology off-grid solar repair in Zambia', Political Geography, 106, pp. 102962, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102962

Addison C; Neale T; Lancaster K; Kearnes M, 2023, 'Latour and After, or What Comes After Latour?', Science Technology and Human Values, 48, pp. 969 - 972, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01622439231190895

Rogers D; Kearnes M, 2023, 'Geographies of COVID-19', Geographical Research, 61, pp. 312 - 319, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12593

Addison C; Kearnes M; Lancaster K; Neale T, 2023, 'Thank you to our reviewers for 2021 and 2022', Science Technology and Human Values, 48, pp. 237 - 242, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01622439231155034

Neale T; Lancaster K; Addison C; Kearnes M, 2023, 'What Is an STS Contribution Now?', Science Technology and Human Values, 48, pp. 3 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01622439221138631

McLauchlan L; Lancaster K; Kearnes M; Mellor R; Ritter A, 2022, '“It's professional but it's personal”: Participation, personal connection, and sustained disagreement in drug policy reform', International Journal of Drug Policy, 110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103903

Mellor R; Kearnes M; Lancaster K; McLauchlan L; Ritter A, 2022, 'Established Tables and Emergent Huddles: Exploring the Processes of Participation Associated With the Policy Changes to Opioid Pharmacotherapy Treatment in Australia in the Context of COVID-19', Contemporary Drug Problems, 49, pp. 385 - 404, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00914509221123001

Barrett L; Mellor R; Ritter A; McLauchlan L; Kearnes M, 2022, 'Navigating the grey: Experiences of incremental cannabis reform in Australia', Drug and Alcohol Review, 41, pp. 1621 - 1629, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.13518

Munro PG; Samarakoon S; Hansen UE; Kearnes M; Bruce A; Cross J; Walker S; Zalengera C, 2022, 'Towards a repair research agenda for off-grid solar e-waste in the Global South', Nature Energy, 8, pp. 1 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41560-022-01103-9

Manwaring K; Kearnes M; Morgan B; Munro P; Pala R; Samarakoon S, 2022, 'What does a right to repair tell us about our relationship with technology?', Alternative Law Journal, 47, pp. 179 - 179, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1037969X221108557

Miller G; Kuch D; Kearnes M, 2022, 'Reimagining Health as a ‘Flow on Effect’ of Biomedical Innovation: Research Policy as a Site of State Activism', Minerva, 60, pp. 235 - 256, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11024-021-09456-3

Neale T; Addison C; Lancaster K; Kearnes M, 2022, 'A Meeting Point for STS Interventions and Conversations', Science, Technology and Human Values, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01622439221102994

Samarakoon S; Munro P; Zalengera C; Kearnes M, 2022, 'The afterlives of off-grid solar: The dynamics of repair and e-waste in Malawi', Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 42, pp. 317 - 330, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2022.01.009

Dalziell J; Keaney J; Kearnes M; Thierry B; Winter M, 2022, 'Bioengineering human placentas: social implications of an advancing field', Trends in Biotechnology, 40, pp. 137 - 140, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2021.10.011

Grove K; Rickards L; Anderson B; Kearnes M, 2022, 'The uneven distribution of futurity: Slow emergencies and the event of COVID-19', Geographical Research, 60, pp. 6 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12501

Kamstra P; Cook B; Edensor T; Kennedy D; Kearnes M, 2021, 'Relational Risk and Collective Management: A Pathway to Transformational Risk Management', Risk Analysis, 41, pp. 1782 - 1794, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/risa.13691

Kuch D; Kearnes M; Gulson K, 2020, 'The promise of precision: datafication in medicine, agriculture and education', Policy Studies, 41, pp. 527 - 546, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2020.1724384

Duché G; Thordarson P; Kearnes M, 2020, 'The importance of reflecting on treatment and post-treatment care when assessing the social aspects of cosmetic nanomedicine and transdermal delivery system', Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine, 28, pp. 102214, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nano.2020.102214


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