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Javier Lezaun

Researcher at University of Oxford

Publications -  66
Citations -  2446

Javier Lezaun is an academic researcher from University of Oxford. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public health & Global health. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 61 publications receiving 2019 citations. Previous affiliations of Javier Lezaun include Cornell University & London School of Economics and Political Science.

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The Wrong Bin Bag: A Turn to Ontology in Science and Technology Studies?

TL;DR: There is in science and technology studies a perceptible new interest in matters of "ontology" as mentioned in this paper, and the notion of "enactment" has been explored in the context of ontology.
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Consulting citizens : technologies of elicitation and the mobility of publics

TL;DR: The authors explored the configuration of legitimate constituency in two such exercises: the UK "GM Nation?" public debate on food biotechnology, and a Swedish "Transparency Forum" on the risks of mobile telephones.
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Materials and devices of the public: an introduction

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the connections between social studies of material participation and political theory, and define the contours of an empiricist approach to material publics, one that takes as its central cue that the values and criteria particular to these publics emerge as part of the process of their organization.
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A market of opinions: the political epistemology of focus groups

TL;DR: The focus group is a pervasive technology of social investigation, a versatile experimental setting where a multitude of ostensibly heterogeneous issues, from politics to economics, from voting to spending, can be productively addressed as discussed by the authors.