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Author : Sandra Harding
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 40,33 MB
Release : 2011-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0822349574
DIVA collection of foundational and contemporary essays in postcolonial science studies./div
Author : Sandra Harding
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 11,24 MB
Release : 2008-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822381184
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.
Author : Mary Wyer
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,80 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780415926065
This reader provides an introduction to the gendering of science and the impact women are making in laboratories around the world. The republished essays included in this collection are both personal tales from women scientists and essays on the nature of science itself, covering such controversial issues like the under-representation of women in science, reproductive technology, sociobiology, evolutionary theory, and the notion of objective science.
Author : Daniel Lee Kleiman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 10,9 MB
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1405148195
This thoughtful and engaging text challenges the widely held notion of science as somehow outside of society, and the idea that technology proceeds automatically down a singular and inevitable path. Through specific case studies involving contemporary debates, this book shows that science and technology are fundamentally part of society and are shaped by it. Draws on concepts from political sociology, organizational analysis, and contemporary social theory. Avoids dense theoretical debate. Includes case studies and concluding chapter summaries for students and scholars.
Author : Ania Loomba
Publisher :
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 44,40 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822335238
This interdisciplinary volume attempts to expand the temporal and geographic agenda of postcolonial studies.
Author : Deepika Bahri
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816639410
A compelling reclamation of the place of aesthetics in postcolonial literature. "Literature" though it may be, postcolonial literature is studied and understood largely--and often solely--in social and political terms. In neglecting its aesthetic dimension, as this book forcefully demonstrates, we are overlooking not only an essential aspect of this literature but even a critical perspective on its sociopolitical function and value. In Native Intelligence, Deepika Bahri focuses on postcolonial literature's formal and aesthetic negotiations with sociopolitical concerns. How, Bahri asks, do aesthetic considerations contest the social function of postcolonial literature? In answering, her book takes on two tasks: First, it identifies the burden of representation borne by post-colonial literature through its progressive politicization. Second, it draws on Frankfurt School critical theory to reclaim a place for aesthetics in literary representation by closely engaging works of Rohinton Mistry, Salman Rushdie, and Arundhati Roy. Throughout, Bahri shows how attention to the aesthetic innovations and utopian impulses of postcolonial works uncovers their complex and uneven relationship to ideology, reanimating their potential to make novel contributions to the larger project of social liberation.
Author : Sandra Harding
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 10,36 MB
Release : 1998-02-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780253211569
Explores what the last few decades of European/American, feminist, and postcolonial science and technology studies can learn from each other. This book proposes new directions for thinking about objectivity, method, and reflexivity in light of the new understandings developed in the post-World War II world
Author : Theodore M. Porter
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 0691210543
A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification What accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is desirable in social investigation as a result of its successes in science. Trust in Numbers questions whether such success in the study of stars, molecules, or cells should be an attractive model for research on human societies, and examines why the natural sciences are highly quantitative in the first place. Theodore Porter argues that a better understanding of the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research brings a fresh perspective to its role in psychology, physics, and medicine. Quantitative rigor is not inherent in science but arises from political and social pressures, and objectivity derives its impetus from cultural contexts. In a new preface, the author sheds light on the current infatuation with quantitative methods, particularly at the intersection of science and bureaucracy.
Author : Stephen H. Cutcliffe
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 16,49 MB
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780791448458
Maps interconnections between science, technology, and society in order to understand both benefits and costs.
Author : Susan Leigh Star
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 49,85 MB
Release : 1995-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1438420978
Ecologies of Knowledge provides a comprehensive overview of issues relating to work, politics, and the latest perspectives on the role of materials, feminism, "nonhumans," and work practices as shaping scientific and technical knowledge. In addition to theoretical contributions, the authors cover biotechnology, computing, representations and space, aerospace engineering, and a variety of ethical perspectives and controversies in these domains.