Entangled histories and negotiated universals
Subtitle: centers and peripheries in a changing world
By: Wolf Lepenies (ed.).
Contributors: Lepenies, Wolf.
Publisher: Campus; Campus Verlag
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Frankfurt; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: Work -- Social aspects.; Science -- Social aspects.; Democracy -- Social aspects.; Corporate governance.; Globalization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Contributions for the research project entitled Agora: Work-Knowledge-Bindung.
Table of contents: title: Re-thinking science / Helga Nowotny; title: Negotiating scientific knowledge / Caroline Baillie; title: The bonds of democratic politics / Stefan Voigt; title: Transnational corporations and the Bretton Woods Twins / Cord Jakobeit; title: The making of the Washington consensus on corruption / Ivan Krastev; title: Audit, corruption, and the problem of personhood / Elizabeth Dunn; title: Domesticating Neo-liberal discipline / Shalini Randeria; title: Epidemics, interzones and biosocial change / Vinh-Kim Nguyen; title: A language is a dialect that has a search-engine / Daniel Dor; title: Work and politics / Bénédicte Zimmermann; title: Debates about the mobility of work in Germany and Japan, 1890-1914 / Sebastian Conrad; title: Work and societal order in Africa / Elisio Macamo; title: Cultural traditions and contemporaneity / Yi Zheng; title: Agoras / S.C. Humphreys.