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Epistemic Governance as a Methodological Tool Kit

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In this book, we have presented a new way of understanding social change as epistemic governance, or governance that functions by taking into account how people conceive of the world, their place in it, and what is good or desirable to do.

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Alasuutari, P., Qadir, A. (2019). Epistemic Governance as a Methodological Tool Kit. In: Epistemic Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19150-4_8

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