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

Entangled Histories and Negotiated Universalsexplores 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.

Wolf Lepenieswas 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, includingBetween Literature and Science: The Rise of Sociology.

Foreword

 

Rethinking Science: From Reliable Knowledge to Socially Robust Knowledge

 

Negotiating Scientific Knowledge

 

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Audit, Corruption, and the Problem of Personhood: Scenes from Postsocialist Poland

 

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