Inscriptions-The Elephant and the Dragon in Contemporary Life Sciences A Call for Decolonising Global Governance

Name: Inscriptions-The Elephant and the Dragon in Contemporary Life Sciences
Author: Saheli Datta Burton

Auteur: Joy Y. Zhang

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Joy Y. Zhang Saheli Datta Burton

Engels
Hardcover
9781526159526
15 maart 2022
224 pagina's

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This book demonstrates that the ‘subversiveness’ assumed in China’s and India’s rise in the life sciences reflects many of the regulatory challenges that are shared globally. It stresses a decolonial imperative for science governance to be responsive and effective in a cosmopolitan world.

'An important and timely book, packed with insights and provocations that deserve to be widely read by scientific leaders, policymakers, and scientists themselves. Its conclusions should challenge, destabilise – yet also strengthen and renew – the frameworks and assumptions that govern science in China, India and worldwide.'
James Wilsdon, University of Sheffield

'The rise of China and India as science powerhouses challenges Western assumptions about the "universality" of science and its global governance. Using vivid examples, the authors argue that Asian life scientists are involved in the constitution of contemporary science that is a diverse, multi-sited, transnational, and evolving mode of global knowledge.'
Aihwa Ong, author of Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian City of Life

'This is the most refreshing, well-informed, and theoretically incisive survey to date of the evolution of Chinese and Indian science-and-technology strategies on the global stage. Using key case studies, physician-STS scholar Zhang and public policy economist Datta-Burton provide a new benchmark text for future studies.'
Michael M. J. Fischer, author of Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice

In the field of the life sciences, China and India are seen as both emerging ‘dragons’ and as ‘elephants’. Both countries have formidable resources and are determined to have their presence felt, but do these scientific ‘dragons’ abide by the rules? This book provides essential insight into the logic of science governance and strategic disobedience, exploring critical events including gene research, stem cell therapies, GM crops, CRISPR technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic. It argues that as science outgrows traditional colonies of expertise and authority, good governance must be decolonised to acquire the capacity to think from and with others. By highlighting epistemic injustice within contemporary science, the book extends theories of decolonisation for science-society relations in a global age.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 15 maart 2022
Aantal pagina's: 224

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Hoofdauteur: Joy Y. Zhang
Tweede Auteur: Saheli Datta Burton
Hoofduitgeverij: Manchester University Press

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Product lengte: 216 mm
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Verpakking hoogte: 16 mm
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