ISBN:
0585037671
,
9780585037677
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 242 pages)
Series Statement:
Race, gender, and science
Parallel Title:
Print version Is science multicultural?
DDC:
501
Keywords:
Science
;
Technology
;
Feminism
;
Science Social aspects
;
Science History
;
Technology History
;
Feminism
;
Decolonization
;
Ciencia
;
Tecnología
;
Feminismo
;
SCIENCE ; Philosophy & Social Aspects
;
Decolonization
;
Feminism
;
Science
;
Science ; Social aspects
;
Technology
;
Feminismus
;
Kulturimperialismus
;
Technik
;
Wissenschaft
;
Wissenschaftlich-technischer Fortschritt
;
Wissenschaftstheorie
;
Entkolonialisierung
;
Naturwissenschaften
;
Natuurwetenschappen
;
Culturele verschillen
;
Cultuur
;
Postkolonialisme
;
Sekseverschillen
;
Sciences ; Aspect social
;
Épistémologie
;
History
;
Industriestaaten
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books History
Abstract:
"Sandra Harding explores what practitioners of European/American, feminist, and postcolonial science and technology studies can learn from each other. She discusses the array of postcolonial science studies that have flourished over the last three decades and probes their implications for "northern" science."--Jacket
Abstract:
A Role for Postcolonial Histories of Science in Theories of Knowledge? Conceptual Shifts -- Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies: A Space for New Questions -- Voyages of Discovery: Imperial and Scientific -- Cultures as Toolboxes for Sciences and Technologies -- Postcolonial Feminist Science Studies: Resources, Challenges, Dialogues -- Are There Gendered Standpoints on Nature? -- Gender, Modernity, Knowledge: Postcolonial Standpoints -- Recovering Epistemological Resources: Strong Objectivity -- Borderlands Epistemologies -- Dysfunctional Universality Claims? Scientific, Epistemological, and Political Issues -- Robust Reflexivity.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-238) and index. - Description based on print version record
