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Re: Luke Rondinaro's world system theory by Andre Gunder Frank 13 August 2002 00:48 UTC |
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SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER ABOUT THE SCIENTIFIC EMPEROR'S CLOTHES A Review Essay of Naked Science. Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries, Power, and Knowledge edited by Laura Nader. New York & London: Routledge 1996, xvi,318 pp. $ ?? by ANDRE GUNDER FRANK abstract The editor explains: "The point is to open up people's minds to other ways of looking and questioning to change attitudes about knowledge, to reframe the organization of science - to formulate ways of thinking globally about science traditions .... There are different kinds of knowledge that provide valid truths of use to human kind. If a dominant [Western] science silences that knowledge, we all lose.... The myth of a single science can be seen as a myth; the false separation between science and nonscience may be considered a barrier to new thinking; and a whole range of vital and experimental thinking is possible" [23-24]. The central theses and the abundant evidence in this book are that "science is not free of culture; rather, it is full of it. Militarization has certainly had an effect on American science... [and] has also fired the pervasive commercialization of the scientific effort.... Politicization of science is unavoidable, [because] behaviour is affected by those who control funding and who often determine the research questions [and] virtually all science has social and political implications.... Denial of a contexutalized science, or the assertion that science is autonomous, strikes at the scientific endeavor, defined as a process of free inquiry" [xiii,9]. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ANDRE GUNDER FRANK Senior Fellow Residence World History Center One Longfellow Place Northeastern University Apt. 3411 270 Holmes Hall Boston, MA 02114 USA Boston, MA 02115 USA Tel: 617-948 2315 Tel: 617 - 373 4060 Fax: 617-948 2316 Web-page:csf.colorado.edu/agfrank/ e-mail:franka@fiu.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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