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The politics of knowledge

Summary: 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.

Subject: Political sociology.; Knowledge, Sociology of.; Information technology > Political aspects.

Responsibility: edited by Fernando Dominguez Rubio and Patrick Baert.
Content: The Politics of Knowledge: An introduction / Fernando Domínguez 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 Domínguez 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.
ISBN: 9780415704755; 9780415497107; 9780203877746

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
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