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"This book studies the circulation of social knowledge by focusing on the reception of Niklas Luhmann's systems theory in the Hispanic Americas. It presents a detailed analysis of knowledge circulation from a science and technology studies perspective and shows that theories need active involvement from scholars in the receiving field in order to travel. As Holub has argued, the success of any transplanted theory is the ability "on the part of advocates to situate a foreign tradition in its new environment and to account for the differences that are operative in the new settings.""--

This book examines the circulation of knowledge within globalization, focusing on the differences between centers and peripheries of knowledge production in the social sciences. It explores not only how knowledge is appropriated in peripheral fields but also how foreign ideas shape those fields and the trajectories of scholars, and uses actor-network theory to explain circulation of knowledge as an extension of socio-technical networks that transcend borders

An intriguing look at how the utilization of material hermeneutics can augment the social and political scientist's capability to interpret social events beyond the traditional parameters that textual hermeneutic and linguistic models would generally present.

El concepto de posverdad se ha ido imponiendo desde el periodismo y la política, hacia otras áreas del conocimiento, sin embargo su vaguedad ha planteado numerosos problemas. Particularmente, lo que la posverdad parece señalar en la política actual se corresponde con realidades ya conocidas y antiguas de América Latina, como es el caso de los populismos. Lo que le ha aportado el actual debate, y se observa en el tratamiento en los estudios de ciencia, tecnología y sociedad (CTS), es la conexión de esos populismos con el conocimiento y sus formas de producción. Esa relación es la que la noción propuesta de populismo epistémico pretende capturar.