Research Catalog

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Description

1. 283 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. "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 description

Series statement

1. Next wave

Uniform title

1. Next wave (Duke University Press)

Subject

1. Science > Social aspects
2. Science > Philosophy
3. Technology > Philosophy
4. Philosophy > History
5. Civilization, Modern
6. Women in science
7. Feminist theory
8. Ciencia > Aspectos sociales
9. Ciencia > Filosofía
10. Teoría feminista
11. Civilization, Modern
12. Feminist theory
13. Philosophy
14. Science > Philosophy
15. Science > Social aspects
16. Technology > Philosophy
17. Women in science
18. Feminismus
19. Wissenschaftsphilosophie
20. Postkolonialismus
21. Filosofi > naturvetenskap
22. Teknik
23. Feministisk teori
24. Filosofi och naturvetenskap
25. Vetenskapssociologi
26. Modernitet

Genre/Form

1. History

Contents

1. Why focus on modernity? -- Problems with modernity's science and politics -- Modernity's misleading dream -- The incomplete first modernity of industrial society -- Co-evolving science and society -- Views from (Western) modernity's peripheries -- Women as subjects of history and knowledge -- Postcolonial science and technology studies : are there multiple sciences? -- Women on modernity's horizons : feminist postcolonial science and technology studies -- Interrogating tradition : challenges and possibilities -- Multiple modernities : postcolonial standpoints -- Haunted modernities, gendered traditions -- Moving on : a methodological provocation.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-280) and index.