Science(s) which, when and whose? Probing the metanarrative of scientific knowledge in the social construction of nature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8091259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dena Pedynowski (Stanford University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 735-752 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Progress in Human Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1325 • E-ISSN: 1477-0288 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1191/0309132503ph459oa |
| OpenAlex | W2071472208 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 34 |
The role of ‘scientific knowledges’ in the social construction of nature(s) and realities has become a focal point of deconstruction and debate in both geography and science and technology studies over the past decades. In this article, I demonstrate that many authors have constructed a metanarrative of ‘science’ as a discursive strategy for their critiques of society. Science is portrayed as a homogenous activity with its ‘products’ implicated in various aspects of poltical-economic-social exploitation/oppression. This metanarrative belies the contempo-rary complexity of scientific endeavor and its diverse epistemic cultures. Suggestions to clarify the epistemologies of scientific knowledges and arbitrate between competing knowledges are presented
Biology · Deconstruction (building · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Metanarrative · Narrative · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Science studies · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of scientific knowledge · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Polar Research and Ecology · Ecology
Pausing at the Brink of Interdisciplinarity
Many Eyes on Nature
Message in a bottle
Mobile phone masts
‘Societal Relationships with Nature’
Advancing geographical understanding
We do not want to leave our land’
From interdisciplinary to inter‐epistemological approaches
Conflict in Common
Cultural ecology (and political ecology) in the ‘environmental borderlands
Volumising territorial sovereignty
The Biodiversity Discourse
Science and the Sociology of Knowledge
Higher superstition
Science as Practice and Culture
The Scientific Revolution
The social construction of reality
Constructing identities
The Social Creation of Nature
Victorian Sensation
Uncommon Ground
Ecology, objectivity and critique in writings on nature and human societies
Objectivity, Science and Society
The Nature of Produced Nature
The Social Construction of Nature
Social Constructions of Nature
Buried Epistemologies
We Have Never Been Modern
Knowledge as Culture
The Manufacture of Knowledge
Primate Visions
A Social History of Truth
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2024 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |