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Decentralizing Knowledges
Essays on Distributed Agency
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Edited by:
Leandro Rodriguez Medina
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Funded by:
UCLA
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
Decentralizing Knowledges argues that epistemic decentralizing—the diverse infrastructures and nonhegemonic practices of knowledge production—should be a main objective in studying the specific infrastructures and practices that make such decentering possible.
Author / Editor information
Leandro Rodriguez Medina is Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Universidad Alberto Hurtado.
Sandra Harding (1935-2025) was Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Sandra Harding (1935-2025) was Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Reviews
“I can think of no other volume that takes up epistemic decentralization as its primary focus. Building on feminist standpoint theory, actor network theory, agnotology, and calls to decolonize social theory, Decentralizing Knowledges will attract great attention from a range of scholars in science and technology studies and beyond.”
-- Heather Paxson, editor of Eating Beside Ourselves: Thresholds of Foods and Bodies
-- Heather Paxson, editor of Eating Beside Ourselves: Thresholds of Foods and Bodies
“This volume addresses an important cluster of questions about decentralization and decentering as methods, practices, and theories in the context of decolonial approaches to science and technology. It makes a clear case that commitments to decentralization and decentering make different demands than inclusivity in relation to race, region, economies, agencies, and other intertwined axes of power and knowledge. Important to both the politics and scholarship of decolonial science and technology studies, Decentralizing Knowledges will have a broader audience in cultural studies and anthropology, and among people committed to more globally inclusive knowledge practices.”
-- Donna J. Haraway, author of Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
-- Donna J. Haraway, author of Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
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Epistemic Decentralizing: Distributed Agency in a Context of Knowledge Asymmetries Leandro Rodriguez Medina and Sandra Harding Open Access Download PDF |
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I Thinking from the Margins
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Daniel Lee Kleinman Open Access Download PDF |
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II Infrastructuring Postcolonialities
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Liv Østmo, Johan Henrik M. Buljo, Line Kalak and John Law Open Access Download PDF |
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Angela Okune, Duygu Kaşdoğan, Aalok Khandekar, Maka Suarez and Kim Fortun Open Access Download PDF |
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III Creating Alternative Spaces
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Ronald Cancino, Cristina Flores, Elías Barticevic and Hebe Vessuri Open Access Download PDF |
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Wiebke Keim and Ari Sitas Open Access Download PDF |
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eBook published on:
June 6, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9781478094289
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Main content:
320
eBook ISBN:
9781478094289
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Professional and scholarly;
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BY-NC 4.0
