Politics of Knowledge.

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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'. Zusammenfassung Explores how the relation between knowledge and the political is developing in the context of 'knowledge societies'. Analyzing how traditional boundaries and categories of the political are being redefined in the age of communication technologies and information economies, this title offers a perspective on the debates about 'knowledge societies'. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...

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• Authors: Patrick (University of Cambridge Baert
• Assisted by: Patrick Baert (Editor), Baert Patrick (Editor), Fernando Domínguez Rubio (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2011
• EAN: 9780415497107
• ISBN: 978-0-415-49710-7
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Political structure & processes, Information technology: general issues, Human Geography, Information technology: general topics, Library & Information Sciences, Political structure and processes, Library and information sciences / Museology