Entangled Histories and Negotiated Universals: Centers and Peripheries in a Changing World

by Wolf Lepenies (Editor)

Overview

Entangled Histories and Negotiated Universals explores the changing field of local histories. Young researchers from around the world—including scholars from Canada, Mozambique, China, and Germany, representing fields as diverse as history, linguistics, political science, anthropology, medicine, and materials science—present their findings, all of which coincide in their understanding that local histories are inseparably intertwined and that, fundamentally, all history is the history of relationships.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783593372808
Publisher:	Campus Verlag
Publication date:	05/01/2003
Pages:	345
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Wolf Lepenies was rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study) from 1986 to 2001 and is professor of sociology at the Free University in Berlin.  He is the author or editor of many books, including Between Literature and Science: The Rise of Sociology.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Wolf Lepenies
 
Rethinking Science: From Reliable Knowledge to Socially Robust Knowledge
Helga Nowotny
 
Negotiating Scientific Knowledge
Caroline Baillie
 
The Bonds of Democratic Politics — An Economic Perspective
Stefan Voigt
 
Transnational Corporations and the Bretton Woods Twins:  Beyond One-Dimensional Perceptions Or How Universals Can Turn Upside Down
Cord Jakobeit
 
When Should Does Not Imply Can.  The Making of the Washington Consensus on Corruption
Ivan Krastev
 
Audit, Corruption, and the Problem of Personhood: Scenes from Postsocialist Poland
Elizabeth Dunn
 
Domesticating Neo-liberal Discipline:  Transnationalisation of Law, Fractured States and Legal Plurality in the South
Shalini Randeria
 
Epidemics, Interzones and Biosocial Change.  Retroviruses and Biologies of Globalisation in West Africa
Vinh-Kim Nquyen
 
A Language is a Dialect that has a Search-Engine
Daniel Dor
 
Work and Politics:  Towards the End of National Hegemony?
Benedicte Zimmermann
 
Circulation, National Work, and Identity.  Debates About the Mobility of Work in Germany and Japan, 1890-1914
Sebastian Conrad
 
Work and Societal Order in Africa — Negotiating Social Change
Elisio Macamo
 
Cultural Traditions and Contemporaneity — the Case of the New Confucianist Debate
Yi Zheng
 
Agoras: Whose Voice is Heard?
S.C. Humphreys
 
Biographical Notes