Product Description

This highly original study puts forward the notion that every culture has its own ways of assembling local knowledge, thereby creating space through the linking of people, practices and places.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3411868 in Books
• Published on: 2000-08-08
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 276 pages

Review
"This beautiful, passionate and inspiring book is essential reading for everyone interested in post colonialism and science and technology studies."
-John Law of History of Consciousness Department, University of California at Santa Cruz
"Turnbull is an innovative theorist and astute writer, and this book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the ways knowledge practices work."
-Professor Donna Haraway of History of Consciousness Department, University of California at Santa Cruz

John Law, Lancaster University, UK
This beautiful, passionate and inspiring book is essential reading for everyone interested in post-colonialism and science and technology studies.

From the Back Cover
In an eclectic and highly original study, Turnbull brings together a wide range of traditions as diverse as cathedral building, Micronesian navigation, cartography and turbulence research. He argues that all our differing ways of producing knowledge, including science, are messy, spatial and local. Every culture has its own ways of assembling local knowledge, thereby creating space through the linking of people, practices and places. The spaces we inhabit and assemblages we work with are not as homogeneous and coherent as our modernist perspectives have led us to believe-rather they are complex and heterogeneous motleys.