Entangled Histories and Negotiated Universals

Centers and Peripheries in a Changing World

Wolf Lepenies

• Verlag: Campus Verlag
• Jahr: 2024
• Auflage: 2
• eBook-ISBN:
  9783593460161
• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften
• Thema: Soziologie

In this volume, young researchers present their views of the results of a joint project titled »AGORA: Work – Knowledge – Bindung (Social Cohesion)«, which was organized at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. The authors come from nine countries, from Canada to China and from Mozambique to Germany, and represent the fields of history and linguistics, anthropology and ethnology, political and social science, economics, medicine, and materials science. In the course of the common project, the fundamental themes that emerged were not those originally conceived. Attention came to focus on the changed relationship between the private and the public sphere, the valid and so-called universal knowledge, and not least the insight that, all over the world, local histories are inseparably intertwined with other local histories and that, fundamentally, all history is the history of relationships. Two figures of argumentation ultimately developed out of this. The English vocabulary of AGORA termed them »entangled histories« and »negotiated universals«. Unveränderter Nachdruck der Ausgabe von 2003

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• About the author
• Titelseite
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Re-thinking Science: From Reliable Knowledge to Socially Robust Knowledge
• Negotiating Scientific Knowledge
• The Bonds of Democratic Politics - A n Economic Perspective
• Transnational Corporations and the Bretton Woods Twins: Beyond One-Dimensional Perceptions Or How Universals Can Turn Upside Down
• When »Should« Does Not Imply »Can«. The Making of the Washington Consensus on Corruption
• Audit, Corruption, and the Problem of Personhood: Scenes from Postsocialist Poland
• Domesticating Neo-liberal Discipline: Transnationalisation of Law, Fractured States and Legal Plurality in the South
• Epidemics, Interzones and Biosocial Change. Retroviruses and Biologies of Globalisation in West Africa
• A Language Is a Dialect That Has a Search-Engine
• Work and Politics: Towards the End of National Hegemony?
• Circulation, »National Work«, and Identity. Debates About the Mobility of Work in Germany and Japan, 1890-1914
• Work and Societal Order in Africa - Negotiating Social Change
• Cultural Traditions and Contemporaneity - the Case of the New Confucianist Debate
• Agoras: Whose Voice is Heard?
• Biographical Notes