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Front Cover
Back Cover
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
eBook available at:
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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.
Editorial Reviews
“Through an illuminating series of vignettes and cases, Zhang and Datta Burton reassert the agency of China and India's research communities, and recast their 'epistemic disobedience' as essential to the urgent task of decolonising the global governance of science. This is an important and timely book, packed with insights and provocations that deserve to be widely read by scientific leaders, policymakers, and by scientists themselves. Its conclusions should challenge, destabilise - yet also strengthen and renew - the frameworks and assumptions that govern science in China, India and worldwide.”
—James Wilsdon, Digital Science Professor of Research Policy, University of Sheffield
“The rise of China and India as science powerhouses challenges Western assumptions about the "universality" of science and its global governance. Using vivid examples, the authors argue that Asian life scientists are involved in the constitution of contemporary science that in actuality is a diverse, multi-sited, transnational, and evolving mode of global knowledge.”
—Aihwa Ong, author of
Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian City of Life
“This is the most refreshing, well-informed, and theoretically incisive survey to date of the evolution of Chinese and Indian science-and-technology strategies on the global stage. Using key case studies to ground their argument about how India and China are gradually challenging the hegemonic control of Western science through epistemic disobedience and strategic science diplomacy, physician-STS scholar Zhang and public policy economist Datta-Burton provide a new bench-mark text for future STS (science, technology and society), geopolitical, and national development studies. They prove the value of multi-locale and comparative or juxtapositional methods of analysis which are fundamental to understanding emergent forms of the future.”
—Michael M.J. Fischer, author of
Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice
and
Anthropology in the Meantime
“This compellingly written book reflects on the history and contemporary development of the life sciences in these two countries, and presents an urgent case to rethink global science so that it lives up to its name.”
—Larry Au,
The Journal of Development Studies
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