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In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be more productively linked to social justice projects around the world. Harding illuminates the idea of multiple modernities as well as the major contributions of post-Kuhnian Western, feminist, and postcolonial science studies. She explains how these schools of thought can help those seeking to implement progressive social projects refine their thinking to overcome limiting ideas about what modernity and modernization are, the objectivity of scientific knowledge, patriarchy, and Eurocentricity. She also reveals how ideas about gender and colonialism frame the conventional contrast between modernity and tradition. As she has done before, Harding points the way forward in Sciences from Below.Describing the work of the post-Kuhnian science studies scholars Bruno Latour, Ulrich Beck, and the team of Michael Gibbons, Helga Nowtony, and Peter Scott, Harding reveals how, from different perspectives, they provide useful resources for rethinking the modernity versus tradition binary and its effects on the production of scientific knowledge. Yet, for the most part, they do not take feminist or postcolonial critiques into account. As Harding demonstrates, feminist science studies and postcolonial science studies have vital contributions to make; they bring to light not only the male supremacist investments in the Western conception of modernity and the historical and epistemological bases of Western science but also the empirical knowledge traditions of the global South. Sciences from Below is a clear and compelling argument that modernity studies and post-Kuhnian, feminist, and postcolonial sciences studies each have something important, and necessary, to offer to those formulating socially progressive scientific research and policy.

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Philosophy of science

Sociologie, société et politique

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Publié par	Duke University Press
Date de parution	25 juin 2008
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780822381181
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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H i l a r y r o s e

s a n d r a H a r d i n g

a n n e f a u s t o - s t e r l i n g

n e x t w a v e

d u k e u n i v e r s i t y P r e s s

d a v i d J . H e s s

H a r d i n g

s c i e n c e s f r o m b e low s c i e n c e s f r o m b e l o w

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Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities

s a n d r a H a r d i n g

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Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Why Focus on Modernity? 1 I. problems with modernity’s science and politics Perspectives from Northern Science Studies 1. Modernity’s Misleading Dream:Latour23 2. The Incomplete First Modernity of Industrial Society:Beck 3. Co-evolving Science and Society:Gobbi,snwoNoy,tnndacoStt

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views from (western) modernity’s peripheries 4. Women as Subjects of History and Knowledge 101 5. Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies:TreAulMreheeitlp Sciences?130 6. Women on Modernity’s Horizons:andocolinlaSicneecFinemtisstPo TechnologyStudies155

interrogating tradition: challenges and possibilities 7. Multiple Modernities:stnsoctPliaonoloidpanSt173 8. Haunted Modernities, Gendered Traditions 191 9. Moving On:olodicogAthMenoacitorovlaP214

Notes 235 Bibliography Index 281

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acknowledgments

this book could not have been writtenwithout the assistance, support, and critical thought of many scholars, activists, and friends working in the ﬁelds of science studies, feminisms, postcolonial stud-ies, and modernity studies, especially those working at the intersec-tions and shared paths of these ﬁelds. Particularly valuable were the reviews of all or parts of the penultimate manuscript provided by David Hess, Françoise Lionnet, Sara Melzer, Clayton Pierce, Hilary Rose, E. Ann Tickner, and Sharon Traweek. Doug Kellner and Gail Kligman generously shared materials and critical feedback with me during the years I was working up this project. Lecture audiences at many conferences and universities helped me to see the importance of the issues here and how to position them in useful ways. To two I owe a special debt: the ‘‘Modernity in Transit’’ conference at the University of Ottawa in 2000, organized by Pascal Gin and Walter Moser, which enabled me to think of launching this project in the ﬁrst place; and the commentators and audience at the Faculty Seminar Series of theucl aCenter for the Study of Women, organized by Kathleen McHugh in April 2007, who helped me im-prove the last two chapters. Tanner LeBaron Wallace and Tara Watford helped me track down research materials. Nancy Lee Sayre gave the manuscript a ﬁne copy-editing. My lovely housemates, Emily and Eva Harding-Morick, nourished my soul on a daily basis.

introduction

Why Focus on Modernity?

this is a book about western modernit y and the ways it re-mains haunted by anxieties about the feminine and the primitive, both of which are associated with the traditional. Northern philosophies of science and technology have been complicitous in establishing and maintaining these haunting specters. Scientiﬁc rationality and techni-cal expertise are presented in these philosophies as the one-way time machines that supposedly enable elite Westerners and men around the globe to escape the bonds of tradition, leaving behind for others the responsibility for the ﬂourishing of women, children and other kin, households, and communities, and for the environments upon which their ﬂourishing depends. These others must do the kind of reproduc-tive and ‘‘craft’’ labor necessary to raise acceptably human children of a particular culture, maintain community social bonds, and ‘‘suture’’ the new—such as railroads or electric cars—to the familiar conceptually, materially, morally, and politically. These others are mostly women and non-Western men. How can Western modernity hope to deliver so-cial progress to women and non-Western men when its most valued achievements are measured in terms of its distance from the interests, needs, and desires of the very humans who produce and reproduce human life and the world around us in ways that make Western mo-dernity possible?

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