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

• Pubblicazione: Oxon [England], : Routledge, 2012; Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.2
• Soggetto topico: Political sociology; Knowledge, Sociology of; Information technology - Political aspects
• Altri autori: BaertPatrick <1961-> RubioFernando Dominguez
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Politics of knowledge
• ISBN: 1-134-00437-0; 1-283-37379-3; 9786613373793; 0-203-87774-8; 1-134-00438-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910968933103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II