Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Familiar Studies of Men and Books
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Sciences from Below
Author: Sandra Harding
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822381184
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be more productively linked to social justice projects around the world. Harding illuminates the idea of multiple modernities as well as the major contributions of post-Kuhnian Western, feminist, and postcolonial science studies. She explains how these schools of thought can help those seeking to implement progressive social projects refine their thinking to overcome limiting ideas about what modernity and modernization are, the objectivity of scientific knowledge, patriarchy, and Eurocentricity. She also reveals how ideas about gender and colonialism frame the conventional contrast between modernity and tradition. As she has done before, Harding points the way forward in Sciences from Below. Describing the work of the post-Kuhnian science studies scholars Bruno Latour, Ulrich Beck, and the team of Michael Gibbons, Helga Nowtony, and Peter Scott, Harding reveals how, from different perspectives, they provide useful resources for rethinking the modernity versus tradition binary and its effects on the production of scientific knowledge. Yet, for the most part, they do not take feminist or postcolonial critiques into account. As Harding demonstrates, feminist science studies and postcolonial science studies have vital contributions to make; they bring to light not only the male supremacist investments in the Western conception of modernity and the historical and epistemological bases of Western science but also the empirical knowledge traditions of the global South. Sciences from Below is a clear and compelling argument that modernity studies and post-Kuhnian, feminist, and postcolonial sciences studies each have something important, and necessary, to offer to those formulating socially progressive scientific research and policy.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822381184
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be more productively linked to social justice projects around the world. Harding illuminates the idea of multiple modernities as well as the major contributions of post-Kuhnian Western, feminist, and postcolonial science studies. She explains how these schools of thought can help those seeking to implement progressive social projects refine their thinking to overcome limiting ideas about what modernity and modernization are, the objectivity of scientific knowledge, patriarchy, and Eurocentricity. She also reveals how ideas about gender and colonialism frame the conventional contrast between modernity and tradition. As she has done before, Harding points the way forward in Sciences from Below. Describing the work of the post-Kuhnian science studies scholars Bruno Latour, Ulrich Beck, and the team of Michael Gibbons, Helga Nowtony, and Peter Scott, Harding reveals how, from different perspectives, they provide useful resources for rethinking the modernity versus tradition binary and its effects on the production of scientific knowledge. Yet, for the most part, they do not take feminist or postcolonial critiques into account. As Harding demonstrates, feminist science studies and postcolonial science studies have vital contributions to make; they bring to light not only the male supremacist investments in the Western conception of modernity and the historical and epistemological bases of Western science but also the empirical knowledge traditions of the global South. Sciences from Below is a clear and compelling argument that modernity studies and post-Kuhnian, feminist, and postcolonial sciences studies each have something important, and necessary, to offer to those formulating socially progressive scientific research and policy.
The "A.L.A." Index
Author: American Library Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indexes
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Publisher:
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Category : Indexes
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Holy Science
Author: Banu Subramaniam
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295745606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Behind the euphoric narrative of India as an emerging world power lies a complex and evolving relationship between science and religion. Evoking the rich mythology of comingled worlds where humans, animals, and gods transform each other and ancient history, Banu Subramaniam demonstrates how Hindu nationalism sutures an ideal past to technologies of the present to make bold claims about the Vedic Sciences and the scientific Vedas. Moving beyond a critique of India’s emerging bionationalism, this book explores the generative possibility of myth and story, interweaving compelling new stories into a rich analysis that animates alternative imaginaries and “other” worlds of possibilities.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295745606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Behind the euphoric narrative of India as an emerging world power lies a complex and evolving relationship between science and religion. Evoking the rich mythology of comingled worlds where humans, animals, and gods transform each other and ancient history, Banu Subramaniam demonstrates how Hindu nationalism sutures an ideal past to technologies of the present to make bold claims about the Vedic Sciences and the scientific Vedas. Moving beyond a critique of India’s emerging bionationalism, this book explores the generative possibility of myth and story, interweaving compelling new stories into a rich analysis that animates alternative imaginaries and “other” worlds of possibilities.
The Third Wave of Science Studies
Author: Harry M. Collins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781872330662
Category : Human services
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781872330662
Category : Human services
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Feminist Science Studies
Author: Maralee Mayberry
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000082814
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This essential text contains contributions from a wide range of fields and provides role models for feminist scientists. Including chapters from scientists and feminist scholars, the book presents a wide range of feminist science studies scholarship-from autobiographical narratives and experimental and theoretical projects, to teaching tools and courses and community-based projects.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000082814
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This essential text contains contributions from a wide range of fields and provides role models for feminist scientists. Including chapters from scientists and feminist scholars, the book presents a wide range of feminist science studies scholarship-from autobiographical narratives and experimental and theoretical projects, to teaching tools and courses and community-based projects.
Knowledge
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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General Catalogue of the Books
Author: Detroit Public Library
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
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Catalogue of Books in the Classes of Natural Science and Useful Arts
Author: San Francisco Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Esoteric Science, Volume 1
Author:
Publisher: Jeff Williams
ISBN: 0615745482
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Publisher: Jeff Williams
ISBN: 0615745482
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description