This postfeminist position is almost always reluctant to acknowledge the energy and massive commitment that was required to make a case for a curriculum which brought gender issues to the forefront across what we might call epistemic communities.
Her research interests focus on epistemic communities of social and political science, and the role they play in transforming the \ social state\" project in Scandinavia and the United States in the 1930s, 1960s, and the present.
An international community opposes war crimes and supports humanitarian goals; epistemic communities share information and ideas for common causes like climate change; security communities, such as NATO, spread peace and deter aggression among members; and democratic communities like the European Union innovate "best practices" of governance and defend human rights.
The case study on Brescia mechanical firms shows that knowledge, rather than flowing freely within the cluster boundaries, circulates within a few smaller "epistemic communities", each centered around the mechanical engineers of individual machine producers, and spanning to a selected number of suppliers' and customers' technicians.
Some feminists have focused squarely on the internal democratic conditions of epistemic communities required for objectivity.
Robert Jungk Bibliothek Salzburg; 55 Jungk & Galtung; 91 Seefried, pp 195ff; for "epistemic communities" 38 Haas.
In recent years, international organizations have begun to play increasingly active role within social policy epistemic communities.
Second, national and international epistemic communities of professionals and experts may play an important role in mobilizing and framing information.
Informal institutions include epistemic communities, transnational networks, and the basic structure of transnational norms that make the world 'hang together' (Ruggie 1998).
Situations of oppression, and the marginalization of groups within society damage the epistemic potential of both specific epistemic communities and society at large.
According to such arguments, epistemic improvement requires improvement to the structure of our social relations understood more broadly than just inside the epistemic communities themselves.
