Dr. Michael Kuhn is director of Knowwhy Global Research and president of the World Social Sciences and Humanities Network. His background is philosophy, political science, and international economics. His research interests include epistemological and organizational implications of internationalizing social sciences communities. Kazumi Okamoto is Secretary General of the World Social Sciences and Humanities Network.
8 Ebooks by Shujiro Yazawa
Kazumi Okamoto & Michael Kuhn: Spatial Social Thought: Local Knowledge in Global Science Encounters
Global, local, glocal – reflecting on the area of world social science seems to be above all a matter of space. In these spatial dichotomies the global has no location and locations seem beyond this …
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€16.99
Shujiro Yazawa & Michael Kuhn: Theories about and Strategies against Hegemonic Social Sciences
This innovative book provides new perspectives on the globalization of knowledge and the notion of hegemonic sciences. Tying together contributions of authors from all across the world, it challenges …
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€19.99
Michael Kuhn: How the Social Sciences Think about the World’s Social
At the beginning of the new millennium, the social sciences discover an epochal “turn” making it necessary to revolutionize their theory-building: As a response to what they call the globalization of …
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€22.99
Michael Kuhn & Hebe Vessuri: The Global Social Sciences
The European social sciences tend to absorb criticism that has been passed on the European approach and re-label it as a part of what the critique opposes; criticism of European social sciences by “s …
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€22.99
Hebe Vessuri & Michael Kuhn: Contributions to Alternative Concepts of Knowledge
In the past, the European social sciences labelled and discredited knowledge that did not follow the definition for scientific knowledge as applied by the European social sciences as an alternative c …
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€22.99
Kazumi Okamoto: Academic Culture: An Analytical Framework for Understanding Academic Work
That we live in a world ruled and confused by cultural diversities has become common sense. It was the social sciences that gave birth to a new theoretical paradigm, the creation of cultural theories …
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English
€26.99
Michael Kuhn: Die Sozialwissenschaft der Bürgergesellschaft
Zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts entdecken die Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften weltweit die Notwendigkeit, ihre Theoriebildung selbstkritisch umgestalten zu müssen. Die erste Kritik sozialwissenschaf …
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German
€22.99
Leon-Marie Nkolo Ndjodo: La Théorie Postcoloniale
La théorie culturelle et esthétique postcoloniale fixe les difficultés du continent africain dans une stylistique de l’horreur et une anthropologie de l’échec et de l’impuissance culturelle. Elle pro …
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French
€22.99
