{"product_id":"sciences-from-below-9780822342595","title":"Sciences from Below","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA preeminent science studies scholar shows how feminist and postcolonial science studies challenge the problematic modernity versus tradition binary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It seems that a work of this nature is long overdue and, will significantly improve the communication between modernity theorists and those working in feminist or postcolonial studies.” - Carolyn Anderson, \u003ci\u003ePerspectives on Science and Christian Faith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is an ambitious and impressive book. . . . Harding’s book is a significant contribution to the literature on science, feminism, and postcoloniality. It is certainly a step in the direction of the transformation of science and politics that is Harding’s goal.” - Susan Hekman,\u003ci\u003e Contemporary Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSciences from Below \u003c\/i\u003eis a brilliant synthesis of three approaches to science and technology studies and a call for increased exchange between\u003cbr\u003ethem.” - Nancy Tuana, \u003ci\u003eIsis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[T]he philosophical—and human—imperatives that led [Harding] to write this book are extremely important, and the book itself opens possibilities that philosophers must explore.” - Emily R. Grosholz, \u003ci\u003eWomen’s Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] stunning synthesis of research from post-positivist, feminist, and postcolonial science studies scholars.” - Bonnie Shulman, \u003ci\u003eTechnology and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSciences from Below\u003c\/i\u003e is a splendid book. Sandra Harding’s project of intellectual integration, bringing together some of the most influential literatures on modernity, science, and feminism, is a welcome, much-needed project. Her project is needed because the social justice movements need synthetic scholarship, and it is needed because there is an academic tower of Babel with few translators.”—\u003cb\u003eHilary Rose\u003c\/b\u003e, author of\u003ci\u003e Love, Power, and Knowledge: Towards a Feminist Transformation of the Sciences\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sandra Harding fills significant gaps in three crucial, overlapping, yet strangely independent scholarly literatures on science and technology: feminist analyses of science, “traditional” science and technology studies, and postcolonial science studies. This is a unifying and strengthening project of great significance both practically (for the future of science throughout the world) and within academe.”—\u003cb\u003eAnne Fausto-Sterling\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eSexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sandra Harding’s voice is one of the most important in the science and technology studies field. With \u003ci\u003eSciences from Below\u003c\/i\u003e, she opens up a broad vista, one in which the entire field of social movements and alternative visions of modernity is gendered.”—\u003cb\u003eDavid J. Hess\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Director of the Program in Ecological Economics, Values, and Policy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSciences from Below \u003c\/i\u003eis a brilliant synthesis of three approaches to science and technology studies and a call for increased exchange between\u003cbr\u003ethem.” -- Nancy Tuana * Isis *\u003cbr\u003e“[A] stunning synthesis of research from post-positivist, feminist, and postcolonial science studies scholars.” -- Bonnie Shulman * Technology and Culture *\u003cbr\u003e“[T]he philosophical—and human—imperatives that led [Harding] to write this book are extremely important, and the book itself opens possibilities that philosophers must explore.” -- Emily R. Grosholz * Women's Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e“It seems that a work of this nature is long overdue and, will significantly improve the communication between modernity theorists and those working in feminist or postcolonial studies.” -- Carolyn Anderson * Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith *\u003cbr\u003e“This is an ambitious and impressive book. . . . Harding’s book is a significant contribution to the literature on science, feminism, and postcoloniality. It is certainly a step in the direction of the transformation of science and politics that is Harding’s goal.” -- Susan Hekman * Contemporary Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Why Focus on Modernity? 1\u003cbr\u003e I. Problems with Modernity's Science and Politics: Perspectives from Northern Science Studies \u003cbr\u003e 1. Modernity's Misleading Dream: Latour 23\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Incomplete First Modernity of Industrial Society: Beck 49\u003cbr\u003e 3. Co-evoloving Science and Society: Gibbons, Nowotny, and Scott 75\u003cbr\u003e II. Views from (Western) Modernity's Peripheries \u003cbr\u003e 4. Women as Subjects of History and Knowledge 101\u003cbr\u003e 5. Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies: Are There Multiple Sciences? 130\u003cbr\u003e 6. Women on Modernity's Horizons: Feminist Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies 155\u003cbr\u003e III. Interrogating Tradition: Challenges and Possibilities \u003cbr\u003e 7. Multiple Modernities: Postcolonial Standpoints 173\u003cbr\u003e 8. Haunted Modernities, Gendered Traditions 191\u003cbr\u003e 9. Moving On: A Methodological Provocation 214\u003cbr\u003e Notes 235\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 257\u003cbr\u003e Index 281","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406051778903,"sku":"9780822342595","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822342595.jpg?v=1730494366","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sciences-from-below-9780822342595","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}