Gender Knowledge and Knowledge Networks in International Political Economy - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 3832952381 ISBN 13: 9783832952389

Casa editrice: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Mbh & Co, 2010

Riassunto

This collection explores the apparent gender neutrality of knowledge generation and dissemination through knowledge networks in the various subfields of international political economy. The contributions present the gender knowledge concept, which starts from the assumption that every form of knowledge is based upon a specific form of gender knowledge. That knowledge is power and that traditional knowledge has been constructed in the interests of the powerful has been a critique of contemporary feminist scholarship from the start. The individual contributions in the book address not so much the gendered effects of different policies, but rather the imprint that "gender knowledge" leaves both on the academic knowledge justifying and underpinning the policies, and normative assumptions of the policy community. Focusing on gender knowledge as a research agenda is all the more important, since, at the Lisbon summit of the EU Council in 2000, it was agreed to make the EU 'globally the most competitive knowledge-based economy' by 2010. The key question is: What is the epistemic and philosophical foundation of the knowledge economy and through what channels and networks is the scientific knowledge disseminated? Who decides what knowledge is, where the knowledge is produced, and who are the knowledge producers?

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Mbh & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3832952381
• ISBN 13: 9783832952389
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 201
• Redattore: Young Brigitte, Scherrer Christoph
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile