Science in motion: what postcolonial science studies can offer
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Science in motion : what postcolonial science studies
One of the greatest contributions of Science and Technology Studies (STS), in the last 30 years, has been to show that the contours of science/technology and society are inextricably interwoven (Bloor [1976] 1991, Latour & Woolgar [1979] 1986; Knorr Cetina 1981; Shapin & Schaffer 1985; Latour 1987; Haraway 1991). These studies have highlighted that techno-scientific developments are path-depend...
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عنوان ژورنال: RECIIS
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1981-6286
DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v2i2.187en