The Politics of Knowledge. (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Baert, Patrick; Rubio, Fernando Domínguez

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Social scientists often refer to contemporary advanced societies as 'knowledge societies', which indicates the extent to which 'science', 'knowledge' and 'knowledge production' have become fundamental phenomena in Western societies and central concerns for the social sciences. This book aims to investigate the political dimension of this production and validation of knowledge.

In studying the relationship between knowledge and politics, this book provides a novel perspective on current debates about 'knowledge societies', and offers an interdisciplinary agenda for future research. It addresses four fundamental aspects of the relation between knowledge and politics:

. the ways in which the nature of the knowledge we produce affects the nature of political activity

. how the production of knowledge calls into question fundamental political categories

. how the production of knowledge is governed and managed

. how the new technologies of knowledge produce new forms of political action.

This book will be of interest to students of sociology, political science, cultural studies and science and technology studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134004386
• Artikelnr.: 38254267

Autorenporträt

Patrick Baert is Reader in Social Theory at the University of Cambridge, and also Fellow and Director of Studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge. His publications include Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (with F. Carreira da Silva, 2010), and Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society (with S.Koniordos, G.Procacci and C.Ruzza, 2010). Fernando Domínguez Rubio is a Postdoctoral Marie Curie Fellow at New York University and the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change at the Open University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Politics of Knowledge
Fernando D. Rubio and Patrick Baert 1. The Politics of Public Reason
Sheila Jasanoff 2. The Politics of Non-knowing: An Emerging Area of Social and Political Conflict in Reflexive Modernity
Ulrich Beck and Peter Wehling 3. Technology
Legal Knowledge and Citizenship: On the Care of Locked-in Syndrome Patients
Fernando D. Rubio and Javier Lezaun 4. 'Step Inside: Knowledge Freely Available'. The Politics of (making) Knowledge-objects
James Leach 5. Informal Knowledge and its Enablements: The Role of the New Technologies
Saskia Sassen 6. Secularisation and the Politics of Religious Knowledge
Bryan S. Turner 7. Social Fluidity: The Politics of a Theoretical Model
Fernando J. García Selgas 8. Collateral Realities
John Law 9. Transforming the Intellectual
Patrick Baert and Alan Shipman