Politics of Knowledge.
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...
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Taylor & Francis,
2011
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; The Politics of Knowledge; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; The Politics of Knowledge: An introduction; 1 The politics of public reason; 2 The politics of non-knowing: an emerging area of social and political conflict in reflexive modernity; 3 Technology, legal knowledge and citizenship: on the care of locked-in syndrome patients; 4 'Step inside: knowledge freely available'
- the politics of (making) knowledge-objects; 5 Informal knowledge and its enablements: the role of the new technologies; 6 Secularisation and the politics of religious knowledge.
- 7 Social fluidity: the politics of a theoretical model8 Collateral realities; 9 Transforming the intellectual; Index.
