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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Science is under threat. Scientists are marching to defend it against populist attacks, antiscientific sentiment, and censorship. At the same time, science is expected to solve our biggest crises - climate change, biodiversity loss, or rising social inequality - while becoming increasingly entangled with big money, technological solutionism, and promises of progress. So, what kind of science are we defending This book takes a critical look at the dominant model of science: shaped by colonialism, imperialism, a belief in human control over nature, and economic pressures. It reveals how this model - purportedly neutral and universal - is in fact deeply political and reductionist. We ask what other forms of science we might aspire to. Bringing together decolonial, feminist, and ecological perspectives, we propose more democratic, humble, and pluralistic ways of knowing and researching the world: convivial sciences. 242 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Science is under threat. Scientists are marching to defend it against populist attacks, antiscientific sentiment, and censorship. At the same time, science is expected to solve our biggest crises - climate change, biodiversity loss, or rising social inequality - while becoming increasingly entangled with big money, technological solutionism, and promises of progress. So, what kind of science are we defending This book takes a critical look at the dominant model of science: shaped by colonialism, imperialism, a belief in human control over nature, and economic pressures. It reveals how this model - purportedly neutral and universal - is in fact deeply political and reductionist. We ask what other forms of science we might aspire to. Bringing together decolonial, feminist, and ecological perspectives, we propose more democratic, humble, and pluralistic ways of knowing and researching the world: convivial sciences. 242 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Science is under threat. Scientists are marching to defend it against populist attacks, antiscientific sentiment, and censorship. At the same time, science is expected to solve our biggest crises - climate change, biodiversity loss, or rising social inequality - while becoming increasingly entangled with big money, technological solutionism, and promises of progress. So, what kind of science are we defending This book takes a critical look at the dominant model of science: shaped by colonialism, imperialism, a belief in human control over nature, and economic pressures. It reveals how this model - purportedly neutral and universal - is in fact deeply political and reductionist.We ask what other forms of science we might aspire to. Bringing together decolonial, feminist, and ecological perspectives, we propose more democratic, humble, and pluralistic ways of knowing and researching the world: convivial sciences. …

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Administrative asylum procedures are permeated by tensions between rationalities of legality, efficiency, and deterrence in asylum casework and their various effects on cases. Based on ethnographic research in the Swiss asylum administration, this book unveils the pragmatics and politics of rendering asylum cases resolvable by re-cording the lives of applicants in terms of asylum. With his reading of power and agency in administrations, Ephraim Poertner offers a critical view of the intricate relationship between practices of asylum casework and the governmental need to resolve claims of people seeking protection. This book offers a critical analysis of how asylum seekers' lives become tied to asylum cases and their administrative governing. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Administrative asylum procedures are permeated by tensions between rationalities of legality, efficiency, and deterrence in asylum casework and their various effects on cases. Based on ethnographic research in the Swiss asylum administration, this book unveils the pragmatics and politics of rendering asylum cases resolvable by re-cording the lives of applicants in terms of asylum. With his reading of power and agency in administrations, Ephraim Pörtner offers a critical view of the intricate relationship between practices of asylum casework and the governmental need to resolve claims of people seeking protection.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Administrative asylum procedures are permeated by tensions between rationalities of legality, efficiency, and deterrence in asylum casework and their various effects on cases. Based on ethnographic research in the Swiss asylum administration, this book unveils the pragmatics and politics of rendering asylum cases resolvable by re-cording the lives of applicants in terms of asylum. With his reading of power and agency in administrations, Ephraim Pörtner offers a critical view of the intricate relationship between practices of asylum casework and the governmental need to resolve claims of people seeking protection. 454 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Administrative asylum procedures are permeated by tensions between rationalities of legality, efficiency, and deterrence in asylum casework and their various effects on cases. Based on ethnographic research in the Swiss asylum administration, this book unveils the pragmatics and politics of rendering asylum cases resolvable by re-cording the lives of applicants in terms of asylum. With his reading of power and agency in administrations, Ephraim Pörtner offers a critical view of the intricate relationship between practices of asylum casework and the governmental need to resolve claims of people seeking protection. 454 pp. Englisch.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Administrative asylum procedures are permeated by tensions between rationalities of legality, efficiency, and deterrence in asylum casework and their various effects on cases. Based on ethnographic research in the Swiss asylum administration, this book unveils the pragmatics and politics of rendering asylum cases resolvable by re-cording the lives of applicants in terms of asylum. With his reading of power and agency in administrations, Ephraim Pörtner offers a critical view of the intricate relationship between practices of asylum casework and the governmental need to resolve claims of people seeking protection.…

Condition: New. Autor/Autorin: Ephraim PoertnerEphraim Poertner is co-executive director of Critical Scientists Switzerland. He holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Zurich. His dissertation, Re-Cording Lives, was published as a book by Transcript Ve.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Administrative asylum procedures are permeated by tensions between rationalities of legality, efficiency, and deterrence in asylum casework and their various effects on cases. Based on ethnographic research in the Swiss asylum administration, this book unveils the pragmatics and politics of rendering asylum cases resolvable by re-cording the lives of applicants in terms of asylum. With his reading of power and agency in administrations, Ephraim Pörtner offers a critical view of the intricate relationship between practices of asylum casework and the governmental need to resolve claims of people seeking protection.…

Condition: New. Administrative asylum procedures are permeated by tensions between rationalities of legality, efficiency, and deterrence in asylum casework and their various effects on cases. Based on ethnographic research in the Swiss asylum administration, this book unve.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Science is under threat. Scientists are marching to defend it against populist attacks, antiscientific sentiment, and censorship. At the same time, science is expected to solve our biggest crises - climate change, biodiversity loss, or rising social inequality - while becoming increasingly entangled with big money, technological solutionism, and promises of progress. So, what kind of science are we defending This book takes a critical look at the dominant model of science: shaped by colonialism, imperialism, a belief in human control over nature, and economic pressures. It reveals how this model - purportedly neutral and universal - is in fact deeply political and reductionist.We ask what other forms of science we might aspire to. Bringing together decolonial, feminist, and ecological perspectives, we propose more democratic, humble, and pluralistic ways of knowing and researching the world: convivial sciences.oekom verlag GmbH, Goethestraße 28, 80336 München 242 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Science is under threat. Scientists are marching to defend it against populist attacks, antiscientific sentiment, and censorship. At the same time, science is expected to solve our biggest crises - climate change, biodiversity loss, or rising social inequality - while becoming increasingly entangled with big money, technological solutionism, and promises of progress. So, what kind of science are we defending This book takes a critical look at the dominant model of science: shaped by colonialism, imperialism, a belief in human control over nature, and economic pressures. It reveals how this model - purportedly neutral and universal - is in fact deeply political and reductionist. We ask what other forms of science we might aspire to. Bringing together decolonial, feminist, and ecological perspectives, we propose more democratic, humble, and pluralistic ways of knowing and researching the world: convivial sciences.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Towards Convivial Sciences | Uniting Strands of Critical Inquiry | Ephraim Pörtner (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | 242 S. | Englisch | 2025 | Oekom Verlag GmbH | EAN 9783987261664 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: oekom - Gesellschaft für ökologische Kommunikation mit besch, Goethestr. 28, 80336 München, info[at]oekom[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Re-Cording Lives | Ephraim Pörtner | Taschenbuch | 454 S. | Englisch | 2025 | transcript Verlag | EAN 9783837653496 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: transcript Verlag, Gero Wierichs, Hermannstr. 26, 33602 Bielefeld, live[at]transcript-verlag[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Administrative asylum procedures are permeated by tensions between rationalities of legality, efficiency, and deterrence in asylum casework and their various effects on cases. Based on ethnographic research in the Swiss asylum administration, this book unveils the pragmatics and politics of rendering asylum cases resolvable by re-cording the lives of applicants in terms of asylum. With his reading of power and agency in administrations, Ephraim Pörtner offers a critical view of the intricate relationship between practices of asylum casework and the governmental need to resolve claims of people seeking protection.transcript Verlag, Hermannstraße 26, 33602 Bielefeld 454 pp. Englisch.…