The knowledge of experience

This book explores the role of social and epistemic diversity in science, technology, and medicine in the 21st century. It argues that most contemporary endeavours to democratize science are epistemically conservative. Using illustrative case studies, Dr Dana Mahr shows how epistemic diversity can contribute to a renewal of the production of scientific knowledge. Her exploration of online self-help cultures, radical feminist health movements, and grassroots environmentalism in Thailand emphasize that experiential knowledge and performativity are important epistemic strategies for marginalized social groups to critically engage with institutionalized knowledge.

Engages with timely empirical sites of inquiry and theoretical debates to offer valuable new insights into scientific knowledge production in the West and the epistemology of diversity Comprises a cutting-edge resource for scholars and students in sociology of health and medicine, philosophy and bioethics, digital culture, and science and technology studies (STS) Provides a unique epistemic "diversity matrix for scientists, which not only focuses on external diversity like biographies and cultural backgrounds, but also will help to plan projects with an enhanced form of methodological and epistemological diversity in mind Offers new reflections and critical insights into the much-vaunted ideals of diversity and participation in the context of science

Autorentext
Dana Mahr is Assistant Professor at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her research centres on how marginalised social groups make sense of the normative aspects of science and technology. Against the backdrop of personal experiences, she advocates for the betterment of the healthcare structures for LGBTQIA+ individuals in Germany and Switzerland.

Inhalt
1 Introduction.- 2 Why is science the way it is today?.- 3 Digital resilience.- 4 Radical feminist movements and the re-imagination of performative epistemology.- 5 Thai Baan research: locality as a key for diversity.- 6 Summary.