States of Knowledge
States of Knowledge In the past twenty years, the field of science and technology studies (S&TS) has made considerable progress toward illuminating the relationship between scientific knowledge and…
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States of Knowledge
In the past twenty years, the field of science and technology studies (S&TS) has made considerable progress toward illuminating the relationship between scientific knowledge and political power. The book develops the theme of 'co-production', showing how scientific knowledge both embeds and is embedded in social identities, institutions, representations and discourses. These insights are now ready to be synthesized and presented in forms that systematically highlight the connections between S&TS and other social sciences.This timely collection of essays by leading scholars in the field meets this challenge.
Through studies of emerging knowledges, research practices and political institutions, the authors demonstrate that the idiom of Accordingly, the authors argue, ways of knowing the world are inseparably linked to the ways in which people seek to organize and control it.