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Reeds in haar vroegste stellingnamen beweerde de feministische wetenschapskritiek dat de inbreng van vrouwelijke onderzoekers het theoretisch kader, de praktijk en de resultaten van het wetenschappelijk onderzoek drastisch zou wijzigen. In "Reinventing biology" toetsen de biologen Lynda Birke en Ruth Hubbard deze bewering aan de biologie. Zij gaan meer bepaald na hoe het biologisch onderzoek eruit zou zien als wetenschappers de voorwerpen van hun onderzoek - of dit nu dieren, planten, bacteriën of mensen zijn - niet zouden beschouwen als passieve objecten die volledig verschillen van de onderzoekers zelf, maar als actieve partners in het onderzoek, met een eigen geschiedenis, een eigen integriteit, het vermogen te reageren op de buitenwereld en in bepaalde gevallen zelfs met een eigen intelligentie. 13 auteurs uit verschillende disciplines benaderen deze vraagstelling op uiteenlopende wijzen: zo gaat Anne Fausto-Sterling bijvoorbeeld in op de zin en onzin van dierenexperimenten; een historisch artikel confronteert de traditionele scheiding tussen cultuur en natuur, tussen subject en object met de extreme gevolgen van de Nazi-theorieën over 'wilde' en 'getemde' natuur; een ander artikel pleit ervoor om de imperialistische drang van de moderne wetenschap, die erop gericht is flora, fauna en volkeren uit andere gebieden uit te buiten, om te buigen tot een democratische wetenschap die rekening houdt met feministische, ecologische en ontwikkelings-perspectieven.

Animal-human relationships --- Animal-man relationships --- Animals and humans --- Human beings and animals --- Human-animal relationships --- Man and animals --- Man-animal relationships --- Mens-dier relaties --- Relations homme-animal --- Relationships [Human-animal ] --- Animal experimentation --- Biology --- Human-animal relationships. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Research. --- History --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Pure sciences. Natural sciences (general) --- Zoology --- General ethics --- Sociology of occupations --- Philosophy of science --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Philosophy --- Research --- Ethics --- Nazism --- Academic sector --- Exact sciences --- Book --- Animals --- Epistemology

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"The Case for Decentralized Federalism brings together an array of experts around one key idea: decentralized federalism as the best political arrangement for a diverse nation like Canada, Edited by Ruth Hubbard and Gilles Paquet, this book argues that decentralized federalism can most effectively address Canada's regional differences and cultural diversity by dividing the work of public governing among different levels of government, allowing each to address the needs and aspiration of its citizens." "With contributions from Thomas J Courchene, Ian Peach, Gerard Belanger, Hugh D. Segal, Francois Rocher, Marie-Christine Gilbert, Ruth Hubbard and Gilles Paquet, this book presents various arguments for decentralized federalism that show how a variety of issues nagging Canada today---nation-building, subsidiarity, competition, innovation---might be resolved through decentralized federalism." "For the case against decentralization, look for The Case for Centralized Federalism edited by Gordon DiGiacomo and Maryantonett Flumian, also published by the University of Ottawa Press."--BOOK JACKET.

Gouvernement federal --- Decentralisation administrative --- Federal government --- Decentralization in government

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Equality --- Feminism --- Rationalization (Psychology) --- Women --- Social conditions

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"Irregular governance pertains to the exploration and design of unusual or, at least, less habitual forms of governance in order to deal more effectively with emerging forms of turbulence and complexity. This capacity to transform depends on the constant arrival on the scene of the right sort of new actors, new structures and new social technologies. Yet our democratic systems are rooted in administrative conservatorship: too many public administrators conceive their role less as serving their political masters than as preserving institutions in a manner consistent with traditions that supposedly need to be maintained. This elusive, self-granted mandate is quite empowering for public administrators, since they argue that they, and their academic colleagues, are the sole group authorized to define what is to be preserved and why. This book is a challenge to administrative conservatorship. It highlights promising initiatives and perilous ones. It makes the case for ombudspersons and against super-bureaucrats, for public-private partnerships and against single-purpose agencies, and for innovation and against the reluctance to adopt effective management tools. A case is made for irreverence vis-à-vis traditional arrangements, and for experimentation and prototyping of new governing arrangements to be actively pursued. It is argued that organizations and socio-economies need to be progressive (in the new sense of having a greater capacity to transform) and antifragile (becoming ever more creative in dealing with avalanches as they get exposed to nastier shocks)."--

Public administration.

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This book is the first in a series of books is designed to define cumulatively the contours of collaborative decentred metagovernance. At this time, there is still no canonical version of this paradigm: it is en émergence. This series intends to be one of many construction sites to experiment with various dimensions of an effective and practical version of this new approach. Metagovernance is the art of combining different forms or styles of governance, experimented with in the private, public and volunteer sectors, to ensure effective coordination when power, resources and information are widely distributed, and the governing is of necessity decentred and collaborative. The series invites conceptual and practical contributions focused on different issue domains, policy fields, causes célébres, functional processes, etc. to the extent that they contribute to sharpening the new apparatus associated with collaborative decentred metagovernance. In the last few decades, there has been a need felt for a more sophisticated understanding of the governing of the private, public and social sectors: for less compartmentalization among sectors that have much in common; and for new conceptual tools to suggest new relevant questions and new ways to carry out the business of governing, by creatively recombining the tools of governance that have proved successful in all these sectors. These efforts have generated experiments that have been sufficiently rich and wide-ranging in the various laboratories of life to warrant efforts to pull together what we know at this stage. This first volume in the series attempts to scope out, in a provisional way, the sort of general terrain we are going to explore. It is not meant to impose boundaries or orthodoxies, but only to loosely identify the horizons and the frontiers, as we perceive them at the time of launching this journey. Horizons and frontiers are to us not ways to limit the inquiries, but rather invitations to all forms of transgression.

Administrative agencies.