Crises and the history of science: a materialist rehabilitation by Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh, Rory Kent, James Poskett

“…In addition to the familiar, contemporary cases of climate change and COVID-19, we sketch out how three historical crises transformed knowledge production in disparate ways: the Ming–Qing transition in late imperial China, crises of labour precarity in seventeenth-century Istanbul and the 1960 Sharpeville massacre in South Africa.…”
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