Relocating Modern Science

Raj, Kapil

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“…The local expertise of intermediaries is both a necessary and silenced dimension of the making of scientific knowledge. As scholarship in the history and sociology of science has shown, such tension between the local and the global is intrinsic to modern science [ 45 ]. On the one hand, science depends on localized arrangements, including divisions of labour across hierarchies of class, profession, race, and gender; on the other hand, scientific knowledge, to achieve global validity, has to be de-contextualized through material and literary operations [ 46 ].…”

Section: Discussion: Care and Memory As Research Competenciesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neglected Actors in Neglected Tropical Diseases Research: Historical Perspectives on Health Workers and Contemporary Buruli Ulcer Research in Ayos, Cameroon

Lachenal

Ntsama²,

Bekolo³

et al. 2016

PLoS Negl Trop Dis

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Section: Discussion: Care and Memory As Research Competenciesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neglected Actors in Neglected Tropical Diseases Research: Historical Perspectives on Health Workers and Contemporary Buruli Ulcer Research in Ayos, Cameroon

Lachenal

Ntsama²,

Bekolo³

et al. 2016

PLoS Negl Trop Dis

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“…As I will interpret in more detail in conclusion, multiple modernities, in comparison to one singular modernity, is more adequate a concept for facilitating mutual learning between different cultures or civilizations. Although the forte of postcolonialism lies in its criticism of colonialism, many postcolonial empirical studies don’t see, or at least underestimate, the agency of the colonized (Raj, , ). The approach of connected histories, which emphasizes the interaction of internal and external factors, can easily avoid this pitfall.…”

Section: Modernity Entangled Since Emergencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The rise and fall of cotton industry, the alleged motor of Industrial Revolution and world's most important manufacturing industry before 1900, in Britain and India also attest to the “global” history of modernity (Beckert, ; Washbrook, , ). Even science, usually regarded as the hard core of (European) modernity, is proved to be a result of “co‐production” by the colonist and the colonized (Raj, ).…”

Section: Modernity Entangled Since Emergencementioning

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A Rewriting Experiment of Modernity from the Perspective of Connected Histories: Taiwan as a Laboratory of Modernity

Tang¹

2018

J Historical Sociology

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This paper aims at a new understanding of modernity from the perspective of connected history. It demonstrates that with the case of Taiwan, so-called 'modernity' emerged from the interactions and connections among the various regions, cultures, and civilizations.Thus, modernity has been entangled since its birth, and has had diverse variants. When we combine this reconceptualization of modernity with the concept of functional differentiation as the most essential structural condition of modernity, a theoretical escape from the trap of Eurocentrism emerges; additionally, we are able to integrate sociological theoretical reflections with the advancements of world history study. | TAIWAN AS A HEURISTIC CASE TO RETHINK MODERNITYThere is no cognition and knowledge not mediated by observation. The observer 's framing, or in Luhmann's (1998) word, the distinction, which makes observation and indication possible but remains a blind spot for itself, determines what the observer can perceive. Taiwan's development in the 1980s and 1990s, long deemed as a representative example within the frame of "economic development" and "regime transition", has attracted attention from international scholarship; its success wins the nation a label of "miracle", and becomes a familiar story and preferred case in academic research (e.g., Copper, 1997;Gold, 1986). With the rise of China and the dramatic change in the international political-economic situation during the early twenty-first century, Taiwan seems to lose its academic halo.Although it remains visible in academia, it is mostly addressed and discussed in another frame in which strategic interaction or potential conflict across the Taiwan Strait are spotlighted. Nevertheless, if we can hold at bay these conventional observing frames, and adjust our perspective, Taiwan endures as a useful heuristic case that helps us revise some taken-for-granted assumptions of sociology inherited from the nineteenth century. For now, these assumptions prove not only out of date but also problematic, especially when modernity is under discussion.The concept of modernity re-emerges, and has become a heatedly debated issue since the challenge of postmodernism in the 1990s. Arguing for the necessity of a global comparison in the "third phase of modernity", Domingues * Editorial board member of Soziale Systeme.(2011) stresses the importance of incorporating non-Western and peripheral cases, such as China, India, and Brazil, to go "beyond the center". I contend in this paper that Taiwan, as a "periphery of the periphery", provides more epistemic potential for emancipation, if we can use the perspective of connected histories to integrate three separated, sometimes even antagonistic, research trends: revisionist world history study, postcolonialism, and theoretical reflection on multiple modernities.Substituting connected histories for the old Eurocentric frame of observation, we will encounter the fact that modernity has formed in the interactions between different regions of the world, rather than ...

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“…Por ejemplo, un grupo sustancial de estudios han mostrado las interacciones creativas que produce la circulación pluridireccional de saberes en situaciones de fuerte desequilibrio de poder académico, económico o político, por ejemplo, entre metrópolis y colonias o entre «centros» y «periferias» (Raj, 2007;Raj, 2013;Gavroglu, 2008). Estas desigualdades condicionan la diversa capacidad de acción de los protagonistas, sin que pueda por ello limitarse la circulación en una dirección, ni tampoco quede anulada la creatividad de los grupos subalternos.…”

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François Bienvenu y la popularización científica en la Ilustración: demostraciones experimentales, entretenimiento y públicos de la ciencia

Suay–Matallana

Sánchez

2016

ensciencias

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En el presente trabajo se estudian las prácticas experimentales realizadas por demostradores itinerantes en la Ilustración. Se mostrará el recorrido por España de uno de los demostradores más populares, François Bienvenu, con el fin de analizar diversos aspectos relacionados con la popularización de la ciencia: los espacios, los públicos destinatarios y la cultura material. Las demostraciones estudiadas muestran que sus experiencias de física y química cumplieron diferentes funciones, relacionadas tanto con la diversión y el espectáculo, como con la formación y la utilidad de los fenómenos naturales. Asimismo, se discutirá la labor de los demostradores de ciencias en la creación, el desarrollo y la popularización de novedades de la física y la química, así como en la circulación de prácticas experimentales e instrumentos científicos.

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Relocating Modern Science

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Cited by 443 publications

References 1 publication

Neglected Actors in Neglected Tropical Diseases Research: Historical Perspectives on Health Workers and Contemporary Buruli Ulcer Research in Ayos, Cameroon

Neglected Actors in Neglected Tropical Diseases Research: Historical Perspectives on Health Workers and Contemporary Buruli Ulcer Research in Ayos, Cameroon

A Rewriting Experiment of Modernity from the Perspective of Connected Histories: Taiwan as a Laboratory of Modernity

François Bienvenu y la popularización científica en la Ilustración: demostraciones experimentales, entretenimiento y públicos de la ciencia

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