GSWS 316 Lecture 4: GSWS 316 Week #4
15 Feb 2019
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Race and gender in the making of science. Stores that we tell about ourselves shape scientific research. Stories that we tell in scientific research shape our social lives. Twitter thread about woman on the moon/astronauts: women blocked from research and knowledge, 1967 (ish) that women were due, to a threat of legal action, to be let back into research or something. Neutrality: neutral, doesn"t bring anything else into practice. Best way to produce knowledge is through experimental practices: we can produce material so people can see matter of facts for what they are. Thomas hobbs says no, we need rhetoric and political argument: modes of political reason. Three matters of fact that allows public to see witnessing fact as what they are: scientific revolution 17th century england, political reason scientific fact, laboratory becomes culture of no culture". Modest witness is made: the objective and transparent scientist whose subjectivity, biases, opinions, and body are invisible in research.
