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PaIS Departmental Seminar: Narratives of creation: religious conflict, scientific controversy and the crisis in political moderation in the American Midwest, Alexander Smith
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Alexander Smith (Warwick University, Sociology)
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The paper, 'Narratives of creation: religious conflict, scientific controversy and the crisis in political moderation in the American Midwest‘, is based on a political ethnography of the moderate wing of the Republican Party in Johnson County, Kansas (part of the greater Kansas City metropolitan area).
ex Smith is a Senior Leverhulme Research Fellow in Sociology at Warwick University as well as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sociology at Kansas University. He also holds an Honorary Lectureship in the Institute of Science and Society at Nottingham University. Alex is engaged in long-term ethnographic fieldwork in the greater Kansas City metropolitan area as part of a four-year research project he is leading entitled "Science, religion and the making of publics in the UK and US". This project forms part of the major Leverhulme Trust-funded research programme "Making Science Public: Challenges and Opportunities" (www.nottingham.ac.uk/sociology/research/projects/making-science-public/index.aspx), an interdisciplinary collaboration being led by Nottingham University with colleagues from Sheffield and Warwick Universities.