Theories about and strategies against hegemonic social sciences

This innovative book provides new perspectives on the globalization of knowledge and the notion of hegemonic sciences. Tying together contributions of authors from all across the world, it challenges existing theories of hegemonic sciences and sheds new light on how they have been and are being cons...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Kuhn, Michael, 1947- editor (editor), Yazawa, Shūjirō, 1942- editor, Okamoto, Kazumi, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stuttgart : Ibidem-Verlag 2015.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection.
Beyond the social sciences ; v. 1.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b46067188*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword; Table of Contents; Preface; Theories about ""Globalization""and ""Hegemonic Sciences""?; Philosophies and Ideologies of Globalization: Postmodernism, Postcolonialism and How to Go Beyond Them; ""Hegemonic Science"": Critique Strands, Counterstrategies, and Their Paradigmatic Premises; What is Hegemonic Science? Power in Scientific Activities in Social Sciences in International Contexts; Counter Strategies?; The Emergence of Hegemonic Social Sciences and Strategies of Non (counter) Hegemonic Social Sciences.
  • The Transcendental Dimension in the Construction of the Universal Social SciencesThree Decades of Chinese Indigenous Psychology: A Contribution to Overcoming the Hegemonic Structures of International Science?; Towards Internationalism: Beyond Colonial and Nationalist Sociologies; Who is the Social Scientist in the Twenty-First Century? Commentaries from Academic and Applied Contexts in the Mainstream and the Periphery; Making Social Knowledge One-Step Outside Modern Science: Some Cases of Social Knowledge-Making Strategies from Peripheries; Alternative Theories?
  • A Universal but ""Nonhegemonic"" Approach to Human Rights in International Politics: A Cosmopolitan Exploration for ChinaIndividualization and Community Networks in East Asia: How to Deal with Global Difference in Social Science Theories?; Notes on the Contributors.