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Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers: Makers of Knowledge and Space (Studies in the History of Science, Technology & Medicine)
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Product Description
We live in interesting times. Science and technology have created many of the problems besetting us at the turn of the century yet, paradoxically, we cannot address them without their assistance. This book takes a fresh approach to resolving the problems of progress and modernity by reframing science and technology. This work brings together a wide range of traditions as diverse as catherdral building, Micronesian navigation, cartography and turbulence research. It argues that all our differeing ways of producing knowledge, including science, are messy, spatial and local. Every culture has its own ways of assembling local knowledge, thereby creating space thought the linking of people, practices and places. The spaces we inhabit and assemblages we work with are not as homogenous and coherent as our modernist perpsectives have led us to believe - rather they are complex and heterogenous motleys.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #43698 in Books
- Published on: 2000-08-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 276 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"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.
About the Author
David Turnbull is a lecturer in science studies at Deakin University, Australia. He was a co-author, along with Max Charlesworth, Lyndsay Farrall, and Terry Stokes, of Life Among The Scientists, an Anthropological Study of an Australian Scientific Community and in 1993 he published Maps are Territories; Science is an Atlas.
