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Book SynopsisThese essays examine how all sorts of knowledges have been constituted. They concentrate on how particular disciplines came into being; how disciplines are demarcated from each other; how they are ordered internally; and how people learn to become disciplinary practitioners.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Disciplinary Ways of Knowing, Ellen Messer-Davidow, David R. Shumway, and David Sylvan. Part 1 Genealogies: Accounting as Discipline - The Overlooked Supplement, Keith W. Hoskin and Richard H. Macve; Fractured Images of Science, Language and Power - A Postmodern Optic or Just Bad Eyesight?, Evelyn Fox Keller; The Discipline of Nature and the Nature of Disciplines, Timothy Lenoir; Anti-Discipline or Narratives of Illusion, Andrew Pickering. Part 2 Boundary-Work: Disciplinary Boundaries and the Rhetoric of the Social Sciences, Steve Fuller; Division and Difference in the "Discipline" of Economics, Jack Amariglio, Stephen Resnick and Richard D. Wolff; Blurring, Cracking and Crossing - Permeation and the Fracturing of Discipline, Julie Thompson Klein. Part 3 Field Construction: Seeing through Art History, Donald Preziosi; The Medical Division of Labour, David Armstrong; Disciplining Practiced/Practices - Gendered States and Politics, V. Spike Peterson. Part 4 Socialising Practices: Education and the Genesis of Disciplinarity - The Unexpected Reversal, Keith W. Hoskin; Examining Exams, James J. Sosnoski; The Social Construction of Two Biologists' Articles, Greg Myers; The Disciplinarity of Knowledge at the Mathematics-Physics Interface, Eric Livingston. Part 5 Counter- and Post-Disciplinary Projects: Are We (Not) What We Are Becoming? Gay "Identity", "Gay Studies" and the Disciplining of Knowledge, Ed Cohen; Spring Break, David Kennedy.
