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Sheila Jasanoff - States of Knowledge: The Co-Production of Science and the Social Order - 9780415403290 - V9780415403290
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States of Knowledge: The Co-Production of Science and the Social Order

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Description for States of Knowledge: The Co-Production of Science and the Social Order Paperback. The field of science and technology studies has made considerable progress toward illuminating the relationship between scientific knowledge and political power. This book offers a collection of essays by leading scholars, showing how scientific knowledge embeds, and is embedded, in social identities, institutions, representations and discourses. Editor(s): Jasanoff, Sheila. Series: International Library of Sociology. Num Pages: 332 pages, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 512.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Series
International Library of Sociology
Condition
New
Weight
506g
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415403290
SKU
V9780415403290
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Reviews for States of Knowledge: The Co-Production of Science and the Social Order
'A must read for students of [science and technology studies] ... the book should also be read by anyone studying environmental politics ... and it should be of interst for wider audiences in political studies, culture, geography and sociology.' - Tim Forsyth, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics, UK

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