Sandra Harding Is Science Multicultural? (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Is Science Multicultural?Condition: NewSubtitle: Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and EpistemologiesAuthor: Sandra HardingFormat: PaperbackISBN-10: 0253211565EAN: 9780253211569ISBN: 9780253211569Publisher: Indiana University PressGenre: Science Nature & MathRelease Date: 02/22/1998Description: Is Science Multicultural? explores what the last three decades of European/American, feminist, and postcolonial science and technology studies can learn from each other. Sandra Harding introduces and discusses an array of postcolonial science studies, and their implications for "northern" science. All three science studies strains have developed in the context of post-World War II science and technology projects. They illustrate how technoscientific projects mean different things to different groups. The meaning attached by the culture of the West may not be shared or may be diametrically opposite in the cultures in other parts of the world. All, however, would agree that scientific projects—modern science included—are "local knowledge systems." The interests and discursive resources that the various science studies bring groups to their projects, and the ways that they organize the production of their kind of science studies, are distinctively culturally-local also. While their projects may be unintentionally converging, they also conflict in fundamental respects.How is this inevitable cultural-situatedness of knowledge both an invaluable resource as well as a limitation on the advance of knowledge about nature? What are the distinctive resources that the feminist and postcolonial science theorists offer in thinking about the history of modern science; the diversity of "scientific" traditions in non-European as well as in European cultures; and the directions that might be taken by less androcentric and Eurocentric scientific projects? How might modern sciences' projects be linked more firmly to the prodemocratic yearnings that are so widely voiced in contemporary life? Carefully balancing poststructuralist and conventional epistemological resources, this study concludes by proposing new directions for thinking about objectivity, method, and reflexivity in light of the new understandings developed in the post-World War II world.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 155mmRelease Year: 1998 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: Is Science Multicultural?

Title: Is Science Multicultural?

Subtitle: Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies

ISBN-10: 0253211565

EAN: 9780253211569

ISBN: 9780253211569

Genre: Science Nature & Math

Release Date: 02/22/1998

Release Year: 1998

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Number of Pages: 256 Pages

Publication Name: Is Science Multicultural? : Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies

Language: English

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Subject: Feminism & Feminist Theory, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Multicultural Education, Study & Teaching, Women's Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism

Publication Year: 1998

Item Height: 0.6 in

Item Weight: 14.5 Oz

Type: Textbook

Subject Area: Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Education, Science

Author: Sandra Harding

Item Length: 8.7 in

Item Width: 6.6 in

Series: Race, Gender, and Science Ser.

Format: Trade Paperback