The Politics of Knowledge (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Baert, Patrick; Rubio, Fernando Domínguez

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores how the relation between knowledge and the political is developing in the rapidly evolving context of 'knowledge societies'. By analysing how the traditional boundaries and categories of the political are being redefined in the age of communication technologies and information economies, this monograph provides a novel perspective on current debates about 'knowledge societies'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134004379
• Artikelnr.: 42636087

Autorenporträt

Patrick Baert is Reader in Social Theory at the University of Cambridge, and also Fellow and Director of Studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge. His publications include Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (with F. Carreira da Silva, 2010), and Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society (with S.Koniordos, G.Procacci and C.Ruzza, 2010). Fernando Domínguez Rubio is a Postdoctoral Marie Curie Fellow at New York University and the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change at the Open University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Politics of Knowledge
Fernando D. Rubio and Patrick Baert 1. The Politics of Public Reason
Sheila Jasanoff 2. The Politics of Non-knowing: An Emerging Area of Social and Political Conflict in Reflexive Modernity
Ulrich Beck and Peter Wehling 3. Technology
Legal Knowledge and Citizenship: On the Care of Locked-in Syndrome Patients
Fernando D. Rubio and Javier Lezaun 4. 'Step Inside: Knowledge Freely Available'. The Politics of (making) Knowledge-objects
James Leach 5. Informal Knowledge and its Enablements: The Role of the New Technologies
Saskia Sassen 6. Secularisation and the Politics of Religious Knowledge
Bryan S. Turner 7. Social Fluidity: The Politics of a Theoretical Model
Fernando J. García Selgas 8. Collateral Realities
John Law 9. Transforming the Intellectual
Patrick Baert and Alan Shipman