{"product_id":"historical-sociologies-of-knowledge-science-and-modernity-volume-2","title":"Historical Sociologies of Knowledge, Science, and Modernity, Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis edited collection offers an exploration and critical reassessment of the sciences in educational research, foregrounding its agential and material qualities rather than treating it as a neutral instrument of knowledge. Addressing the enduring allure of research as expertise and of science as an elixir for enabling the good life, the book examines a distinctive form of activism within modernity and challenges the ahistorical assumptions that often frame the practices of the human sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe two volumes comprise original historical and sociological studies by international scholars who examine the infrastructures of ideas, theories, methods, and technologies through which scientific knowledge is produced. Across a wide range of educational contexts, the authors interrogate how science operates performatively, shaping norms, subjectivities, and modes of governance. Part of a two-volume series, Volume Two, \u003ci\u003eVisual Cultures and Affective Economies in Education\u003c\/i\u003e gives attention to science as projection that sustains norms of anticipated potentialities that compare different kinds of people; and how these projections travel and settle in different historical spaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt will appeal to scholars and researchers across interdisciplinary fields including sociology of education, sociology of knowledge, historical sociology, political philosophy, educational policy, comparative and international education, and transnational studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57427834601816,"sku":"9781032954196","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/historical-sociologies-of-knowledge-science-and-modernity-volume-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}