Decentralizing knowledges : Essays on distributed agency. / Leandro Rodriguez Medina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodriguez Medina, Leandro.

Contributor:

Leandro Rodriguez Medina

funder.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2025.

Durham Duke University Press, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Leandro Rodriguez Medina is Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Universidad Alberto Hurtado.Sandra Harding (1935-2025) was Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Summary:

In recent decades, there has been a call for decentering knowledge in the social sciences and humanities, bringing to light perspectives from previously ignored or undervalued groups or areas of the world. Feminist epistemologies and postcolonial studies have led this trend. However, there has been less interest in the specific infrastructures and practices that make decentering possible. Drawing from science and technology studies, Decentralizing Knowledges examines how to bring about such change. Contributors explore the multiple practices of knowledge production and circulation that favor and nurture nonhegemonic standpoints in academic fields, disciplines, and institutions—what they call epistemic decentralizing. The contributors combine theoretical and philosophical inquiry with empirical and historical case studies in settings ranging from palliative care in Taiwan, the repatriation of archaeological remains to Peru, and an experimental research platform in Kenya to a center of interdisciplinary ethnography in Ecuador and duck hunting as a knowledge practice of many indigenous Sámi people. Throughout, the contributors provide an overview of the complex processes required to challenge mainstream epistemology. Contributors: Linda Martín Alcoff, Elías Barticevic, Johan Henrik Buljo, Ronald Cancino, Cristina Flores, Kim Fortun, Sandra Harding, Line Aimee Kalak, Duygu Kasdogan, Wiebke Keim, Aalok Khandekar, Daniel Lee Kleinman, Wen-Hua Kuo, John Law, Les Levidow, Leandro Rodriguez Medina, Angela Okune, Liv Østmo, Ari Sitas, Maka Suarez, Sharon Traweek, Hebe Vessuri

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Leandro Rodriguez Medina, Sandra Harding

I Thinking from the Margins

One. Extractivist Epistemologies / Linda Martín Alcoff

Two. Epistemic Decentralizing: Revisiting Knowledge Asymmetries from the Periphery / Leandro Rodriguez Medina

Three. The Urgency and Benefits of Decentering and Decentralizing Knowledge Production: Knowledge from the Margins and the Social Studies of Ignorance / Daniel Lee Kleinman

Four. Making Difference at the Edge / Sharon Traweek

II Infrastructuring Postcolonialities

Five. Colonial Struggle and the Infrastructures of Knowing: A Story from Sápmi / Liv Østmo, Johan Henrik M. Buljo, Line Kalak, John Law

Six. Remooring Academia: Postcolonial and Infrastructural Challenges / Angela Okune, Duygu Kaşdoğan, Aalok Khandekar, Maka Suarez, Kim Fortun

Seven. Agroecological Innovation: Decentralizing Knowledge and Democratizing Brazil's Agrifood Economy / Les Levidow

III Creating Alternative Spaces

Eight. Therapeutic Space as Knowledge Space: Decentralizing Biomedicine in Inpatient Hospice and Palliative Care / Wen-Hua Kuo

Nine. Decentered Scientific Agendas and Decentralized Actors and Capacities in Patagonian Science / Ronald Cancino, Cristina Flores, Elías Barticevic, Hebe Vessuri

Ten. A State-Led Strategy of Decentralization: The BRICS Experience / Wiebke Keim, Ari Sitas

Contributors

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-4780-9428-1

OCLC:

1513062378