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 BLUMCZYNSKI 2024 ROBINSON 2024 BENNETT E NEVES 2024 BENNETT 2023 BENNETT, Karen. Approaches to Knowledge Translation. In : MEYLAERTS, Reine; MARAIS, Kobus (eds.). Routledge Handbook of Concepts and Theories of Translation . London: Routledge, 2023. pp. 443-462. BENNETT, Karen. Popular Science as Inter-Epistemic Translation: A Case Sudy. The Translator , v. 30, n. 3, pp. 407-21, 2024a. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13556509.2024.2350221 . BENNETT, Karen. Epistemic Translation: Towards an Ecology of Knowledges. Perspectives, Online , 2024b. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2023.2294123 .

 LIVINGSTONE 2003 , ver 1995 The suggestion that science has a geography goes against the grain 1 Exemplo Darwin During the first year of its existence in 1863 , readers of Auckland’s Southern Monthly Magazine heard the praises of Darwin’s theory of evolution sung long and loud. Darwinism, they were assured, had shed new light on the settling of New Zealand by conclusively demonstrating how a “weak and ill- furnished race” inevitably had “to give way before one which is strong.” Here Darwinism was welcomed because it perfectly suited the needs of New Zealand imperialists. It enabled the Maori to be portrayed in the language of barbarism and thereby provided legiti- macy for land-hungry colonists longing for their extinction. At the same time, things were dramatically different in the American South. Here Darwin’s theory was resisted by proponents of racial politics. Why? Because it threatened traditional beliefs about the separate cre- ation of the different races and ...

BOVO 2021 KORPA 2020 NAVARRO 2014 The first is Gustave Le Bon, the right-wing anthropologist and social psychologist. He began his career as a positivist. He used a Social Darwinist conception of society to argue that struggle and inequality were necessary for society. In his words, “to live is to struggle.”73 Yet his work highlights one of the underlying questions about the meaning of progress: did scientific progress create morality or destroy it? According to Le Bon, progress was in fact double; scientific and technological advance rapidly transformed society, but human nature itself, and its sense of morality lagged behind. This was a problem, because while science destroyed religious conceptions of the world, no new ideas arrived to replace them. Western civilization was in a state of transition, losing its unifying beliefs and solidarity. 18 From the beginning of his career, he held two competing theories; one, a positivist idea of science and progress, and the other, a criticism...