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Cognitive justice in a global world : prudent knowledges for a decent life

The book's main argument is that global social injustice is by and large epistemological injustice. It maintains that there can be no global social justice without global cognitive justice.
Print Book, English, 2007
Lexington Books, Lanham, 2007
Aufsatzsammlung
xv, 446 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780739121948, 9780739121955, 0739121944, 0739121952
124074770
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Science wars : whither the two cultures / Richard Lee
On wars and revolutions / Peter Wagner
Authorizing knowledge in science and anthropology / Joan Fujimura
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Global cognitive justice : reconstructing knowledges and world making
Actors, networks, and new knowledge producers : social movements and the paradigmatic transition in the sciences / Arturo Escobar
Reconstructing unruly ecological complexity : science, interpretation, and critical, reflective practice / Peter Taylor
The demise of critical theory in economics / Francisco Louçã
An invitation to a science war / Shiv Visvanathan
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