Abstract
Many authors have repeatedly argued that in order to start solving the complicated problems of science and other forms of knowledge in the contemporary world, it is necessary to go beyond conventional claims to the universality of scientific knowledge and introduce into the analysis the dimensions of power and domination. The power to narrate, or to block the development or emergence of other narratives, has proved very important to culture and to political domination, and it is one of the main links between them (Said, 1994). Throughout its history, science has fashioned a very powerful narrative that has been instrumental in delegitimizing other descriptions of the world, while consolidating its own position as the preeminent form of knowledge.
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Vessuri, H. (2007). The Hybridization of Knowledge: Science and Local Knowledge in Support of Sustainable Development. In: Sörlin, S., Vessuri, H. (eds) Knowledge Society vs. Knowledge Economy. Issues in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230603516_8
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