{"product_id":"who-speaks-for-nature-on-the-politics-of-science-hardback-9780812249811","title":"Who Speaks for Nature?; On the Politics of Science (Hardback) 9780812249811","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWho Speaks for Nature?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOn the Politics of Science\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLaura Ephraim (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812249811\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 20 December 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.47 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This exquisitely written book poses a question that sits at the intersection of political theory and science studies: how do natural scientists come to be privileged spokespersons for nature? . . . Ephraim makes the case that the scientific authority to speak for non-humans (i.e. 'nature') is as worldly as is the political authority to speak for humans . . . [A] thoughtful, creative, and illuminating work.\" (\u003ci\u003eTheory \u0026amp; Event\u003c\/i\u003e) \"Laura Ephraim brilliantly unsettles and constructively reorganizes the terms of political theory's approach to the intersection of science and politics. \u003ci\u003eWho Speaks for Nature?\u003c\/i\u003e is an outstanding book, deeply informed by the history of modern political and scientific thought yet engaged with the immediate political stakes of controversies about scientific authority, in the social and natural sciences alike.\" (Patchen Markell, University of Chicago) \"\u003ci\u003eWho Speaks for Nature?\u003c\/i\u003e is an impressive piece of scholarship and a fascinating book filled with new and creative readings of Arendt, Vico, Hobbes, and Descartes. It will be an important book for anyone interested in the political theory of scientific authority.\" (Kennan Ferguson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen natural scientists speak up in public about the material phenomena they have observed, measured, and analyzed in the lab or the field, they embody a distinctive version of political authority. Where does science derive its remarkably resilient, though often contested, capacity to give voice to nature? What efforts on the part of scientists and nonscientists alike determine who is regarded as a legitimate witness to material reality and whose speech is discounted as idle chatter, mere opinion, or noise?\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eWho Speaks for Nature?\u003c\/i\u003e, Laura Ephraim reveals the roots of scientific authority in what she calls \"world-building politics\": the collection of practices through which scientists and citizens collaborate with and struggle against each other to engage natural things and events and to construct a shared yet heterogeneous world. Through innovative readings of some of the most important thinkers of science and politics of the near and distant past, including RenÉ Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Giambattista Vico, and Hannah Arendt, Ephraim argues that the natural sciences are political because they are crucial sites in which the worldly relationships that bind together the human and nonhuman are inherited, augmented, and reconstructed.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWho Speaks for Nature?\u003c\/i\u003e opens a novel conversation between political theory, science, and technology studies and augments existing efforts by feminists, environmentalists, and democratic theorists to challenge the traditional binary separating nature and politics. In an age of climate change and climate-change denial, Ephraim brings theoretical understandings of politics to bear on real-world events and decisions and uncovers fresh insights into the place of scientists in public life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559201730840,"sku":"9780812249811","price":41.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/who-speaks-for-nature-on-the-politics-of-science-hardback-9780812249811","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}