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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

Variations of the social: some reflections on public health, social research and the health-society relation

Saúde e Sociedade, 2015
The idea of a social dimension of health is widely accepted as unavoidable and relevant for public health. This article proposes a reflection around the notion of the social examining some of the manifold ways in which it might be inherited by ...
Patricio Rojas
doaj   +1 more source

Ontological imagination: transcending methodological solipsism and the promise of interdisciplinary studies [PDF]

, 2013
This text is a presentation of the notion of ontological imagination. It constitutes an attempt to merge two traditions: critical sociology and science and technology studies - STS.
Nowak, Andrzej W.
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Grounding knowledge and normative valuation in agent-based action and scientific commitment [PDF]

, 2018
Philosophical investigation in synthetic biology has focused on the knowledge-seeking questions pursued, the kind of engineering techniques used, and on the ethical impact of the products produced.
A Clark, A Clark, A Clark, A Minelli, A Pickering, B Calcott, B Goodwin, C Kendig, C Kendig, C Kendig, C Swanton, D Dellomonaco, D Endy, D Erwin, D Gibson, D Sprinzak, EF Keller, EJ Lowe, G Wagner, H Chang, H Chang, H Chang, H Chang, H Longino, H-J Rheinberger, I Hacking, I Hacking, J Dupré, J Dupré, J Hornsby, J Rouse, J Rouse, Latour, B./Johnson, J, M Grene, M Grene, M Kirschner, M Morange, M Morange, M O’Malley, M O’Malley, M Polanyi, M West-Eberhard, M West-Eberhard, P Mullins, P Schyfter, R Brent, R Georgianna, R Wilson, TT Eckdahl, VJ Martin, Weihua Wang   +50 more
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Fertility myths, technology myths and their sources - Lay reasoning about age-related fertility decline

Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 2018
In many societies the average age for giving birth is rising. One factor which could contribute to the timing of childbirth – which has not been explored to a sufficient degree with qualitative research – is lay understanding of fertility and the ...
L. Vicsek
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

Mettre en récits et partager l’expérience

Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2013
In this paper, we develop an analysis of the processes by which individual experiments are shared within a group of farmers. Based on observations from a community of practice organized around direct seeding techniques, we question the ways in which ...
Frédéric Goulet
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Innovation and institutional change : the transition to a sustainable electricity system [PDF]

, 2005
The aim of this book is to specify this perspective by analysing patterns of change in the electricity system. Scientifically, the relevance of the book is in its analysis and explanation of fundamental processes of change, a topic relevant for a range ...
Hofman, Peter Silvester
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Wicked futures:meaning, matter and the sociology of the future [PDF]

, 2017
Sociologists and futurists have come to see that 'fabrications' of the future as entirely open to being remade in the present have become more difficult to sustain in a complex and contingent world.
Tutton, Richard James Christopher
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Implementing an Indigenous Research Methodology to Develop a Culturally Appropriate Survey and Yarning Protocol: Challenges With Retention of the Aboriginal Health, Ageing and Disability Workforce

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aboriginal staff play a vital part in improving culturally safe and effective services and supports for Aboriginal people. Research on the Aboriginal workforce helps advance a culturally safe environment for workers and Aboriginal people accessing health and community services. This study aims to identify the barriers and enablers to workforce
F. Talbot, J. Gilroy, J. Gwynn, K. Bulkeley, C. Alcorso, K. Gwynne, Rob Heard, Sarah Peter, A. Haines, M. Lincoln, B. Rambaldini   +10 more
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