Is Science Multicultural?: Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies

摘要: "Is Science Multicultural?" explores what the last three decades of European/American, feminist, and postcolonial science technology studies can learn from each other. Sandra Harding introduces discusses an array studies, their implications for 'northern' science. All strains have developed in context post-World War II projects. They illustrate how techno-scientific projects mean different things to groups. The meaning attached by culture West may not be shared or diametrically opposite cultures other parts world. All, however, would agree that scientific - modern included are 'local knowledge systems.' interests discursive resources various bring groups projects, ways they organise production kind distinctively culturally local also. While unintentionally converging, also conflict fundamental respects. How is this inevitable cultural-situatedness both invaluable resource as well a limitation on advance about nature? What distinctive feminist theorists offer thinking history science; diversity 'scientific' traditions non-European European cultures; directions might taken less androcentric Eurocentric projects? sciences' linked more firmly prodemocratic yearnings so widely voiced contemporary life? Carefully balancing poststructuralist conventional epistemological resources, study concludes proposing new objectivity, method, reflexivity light understandings