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The Elephant and the Dragon in Contemporary Life Sciences: A Call for Decolonising Global Governance
Authors:
Joy Y. Zhang, Saheli Datta Burton
ISBN:
9789395474191
Binding:
Hardcover
Year:
2025
Pages:
219 with 1 b/w figure and 2 tables
Size:
15 x 23 x 3 cm
Weight:
423 grams
Price:
INR
1495
1346.00
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About the Book
In the field of the life sciences, China and India are seen as both emerging ‘dragons’ and as ‘elephants’. Both countries have formidable resources and are determined to have their presence felt, but do these scientific ‘dragons’ abide by the rules? This book provides essential insight into the logic of science governance and strategic disobedience, exploring critical events including gene research, stem cell therapies, GM crops, CRISPR technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic. It argues that as science outgrows traditional colonies of expertise and authority, good governance must be decolonised to acquire the capacity to think from and with others. By highlighting epistemic injustice within contemporary science, the book extends theories of decolonisation for science-society relations in a global age.
About the Authors
Joy Y. Zhang
Joy Y. Zhang is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent.
Saheli Datta Burton
Saheli Datta Burton is a Research Fellow at University College London.
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