Global, local, glocal – reflecting on the area of world social science seems to be above all a matter of space. In these spatial dichotomies the global has no location and locations seem beyond this world. Discourses about world social science thought not only distinguish social thought along spaces where they are created. Space has become an attribute of thinking when social scientists reflect on the world of social thought: Southern, Western and Northern knowledge, the location in which thoughts are created, is not only a hint about the address of a thinker, but about the theoretical perspective through which social science thinkers look at social reality. Social thoughts are imagined as imprisoned in the spatial context in which they are created, and social science thinkers are imagined as representatives of spaces, whether these are defined politically, culturally, or in any other context in which their thoughts must be rooted as if the product of human minds was nothing but a voicing of the nature of spaces. And should we imagine the world social science arena, the encounter of all these spatially bound thoughts, as the encounter of many parochial knowledges that never manage to arrive at shared thoughts unless they already share the same spatial context? Why should we then at all meet each other? This book discusses examples of spatially constructed knowledges and the struggles these knowledges encounter as they seek to meet one another and escape from the mind prison of their spatial contexts. Or does the world social science arena after all only prove that the ‘Western’ dogma of contextualizing social thought is a dead end road for social thought – everywhere?
Michael Kuhn
Michael Kuhn is president of the World Social Sciences and Humanities Network. He has published several books, among them The Global Social Sciences (2016) and Spatial Social Thought (2013).
Kazumi Okamoto
Michael Kuhn is president of the World Social Sciences and Humanities Network and director of Knowwhy Global Research. Shujiro Yazawa is a professor of Sociology at Faculty of Social Innovation, Seijo University in Tokyo.
Alparslan Acikgenc
Shirin Ahmadnia
Rigas Arvanitis
Justine Baer
Carmen Bueno
Hebe Vessuri is a social anthropologist, Emeritus researcher at the Center of Science Studies, Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC), Caracas, and a Collaborating Scholar at the Center for Environmental Geography (CIGA), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Dr. Vessuri's general interests are on the sociology and contemporary history of science in Latin America, science policy, and sociology of technology. She is also interested in the challenges and dilemmas of expertise and democracy in developing country contexts. Michael Kuhn is President of the World Social Sciences and Humanities Network ad director of Knowwhy Global Research. His background is philosophy, political science and international economics. His current interests focus on theories of social sciences.
Nestor Castro
Mahmoud Dhaouadi
Sari Hanafi
Kamal Mellakh
Leon-Marie Nkolo Ndjodo
Michael Kuhn is president of the World Social Sciences and Humanities Network and director of Knowwhy Global Research. His background is philosophy, political science, and international economics. His research interests include philosophy of science, epistemological and infrastructural implications of internationalizing social sciences, and economy and politics in the era of globalization. Hebe Vessuri is a social anthropologist at the Centre of Science Studies of the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC), Caracas. Dr. Vessuri’s general interests are on the sociology and contemporary history of science in Latin America, science policy, and sociology of technology.
Kumaran Rajagopal
Michael Kuhn is president of the World Social Sciences and Humanities Network and director of Knowwhy Global Research. Shujiro Yazawa is a professor of Sociology at Faculty of Social Innovation, Seijo University in Tokyo.
Youssef Salameh
Ebrahim Towfigh
Hebe Vessuri
Michael Kuhn is president of the World Social Sciences and Humanities Network and director of Knowwhy Global Research. Shujiro Yazawa is a professor of Sociology at Faculty of Social Innovation, Seijo University in Tokyo.
Doris Weidemann
Doris Weidemann ist Kulturpsychologin und Professorin für Interkulturelles Training mit dem Schwerpunkt chinesischsprachiger Kulturraum und International Business Administration an der Westsächsischen Hochschule Zwickau. In ihrer Forschung beschäftigt sie sich mit den interkulturellen Aspekten deutsch-chinesischer Kommunikation und Zusammenarbeit. Tina Paul ist Diplom-Wirtschaftssinologin (FH) und promoviert an der Technischen Universität Chemnitz im Fach Interkulturelle Kommunikation. Ihre Forschungsinteressen sind deutsch-chinesische Wissenschaftskooperationen, Vertrauen sowie postkoloniale Perspektiven. Anja Brandl-Naik absolvierte an der Westsächsischen Hochschule Zwickau ihr Studium zur Diplom-Wirtschaftssinologin (FH). Ihre Interessen liegen im Bereich deutsch-chinesischer Forschungskooperationen und deren interkulturellen Herausforderungen.
Rui Yang
Shujiro Yazawa
Michael Kuhn is president of the World Social Sciences and Humanities Network and director of Knowwhy Global Research. Shujiro Yazawa is a professor of Sociology at Faculty of Social Innovation, Seijo University in Tokyo.
Lieferzeit
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Lieferzeit 2-3 Werktage.
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herausgegeben von | Michael Kuhn, Kazumi Okamoto |
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Beiträge von | Alparslan Acikgenc, Shirin Ahmadnia, Rigas Arvanitis, Justine Baer, Carmen Bueno, Nestor Castro, Mahmoud Dhaouadi, Sari Hanafi, Kamal Mellakh, Leon-Marie Nkolo Ndjodo, Kumaran Rajagopal, Youssef Salameh, Ebrahim Towfigh, Hebe Vessuri, Doris Weidemann, Rui Yang, Shujiro Yazawa |
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306
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Sprache |
Englisch
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Erscheinungsdatum |
01.10.2013
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24,0 cm x 17,0 cm
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Paperback
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ISBN
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978-3-8382-0526-7
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Gewicht
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554 g
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