In this book John A. Weaver suggests curriculum studies scholars need to
engage more in science matters. It offers a review of science studies
writing from Ludwick Fleck and Thomas Kuhn to Philip Mirowski. The
volume includes chapters on the rhetoric of science with a focus on the
history of rhetoric and economics then on the rhetoric of models,
statistics, and data, a critique of neoliberalism and its impact on
science policy and the foundations of democracy, Harry Collin's and
Robert Evans' theory of expertise followed by chapters on feminism with
a focus on the work of Sharon Traweek, Karen Barad, and Vinciane
Despret, postcolonial thought, with attention paid to the work of
Daniela Bleichmar, Londa Schiebinger, Judith Carney, Sylvia Wynter, Paul
Gilroy, and Sandra Harding, and a final chapter on Nietzsche's
philosophy of science. Each section is introduced by an interlude
drawing on autobiographical connections between curriculum studies and
science studies.