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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968933103321

Titolo

Politics of knowledge / / edited by Fernando Dominguez Rubio and Patrick Baert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxon [England], : Routledge, 2012

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-134-00437-0

1-283-37379-3

9786613373793

0-203-87774-8

1-134-00438-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BaertPatrick <1961->

RubioFernando Dominguez

Disciplina

306.2

Soggetti

Political sociology

Knowledge, Sociology of

Information technology - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 social sciences. This book aims to investigate the political dimension of this production and validation of knowledge.In studying the relationship between knowledge and politics, this book provides a novel perspective on current debates about 'knowledge societies', and offers an interdisciplinary agenda for future research. It