States of Knowledge: The Co-production of Science and the Social Order - Couverture souple

Jasanoff, Sheila

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0415403294 ISBN 13 : 9780415403290

Editeur : Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

In the past twenty years, the field of science and technology studies (S&TS) has made considerable progress toward illuminating the relationship between scientific knowledge and political power. These insights are now ready to be synthesized and presented in forms that systematically highlight the connections between S&TS and other social sciences.

This timely collection of essays by leading scholars in the field meets this challenge. The book develops the theme of 'co-production', showing how scientific knowledge both embeds and is embedded in social identities, institutions, representations and discourses. Accordingly, the authors argue, ways of knowing the world are inseparably linked to the ways in which people seek to organize and control it. Through studies of emerging knowledges, research practices and political institutions, the authors demonstrate that the idiom of co-production importantly extends the vocabulary of the traditional social sciences, offering fresh analytic perspectives on the nexus of science, power and culture.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sheila Jasanoff

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415403294
• ISBN 13: 9780415403290
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 332
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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