Knowledge and Society
Values
What a knower or a community takes to be worth pursuing, protecting or preferring. Values operate inside knowledge production and not just around it: they select the problems, set the acceptable risk of error, and decide which trade-offs count as costs.
Who controls knowledge and its ethical weight. These concepts ask who decides what counts, who benefits, and what knowing something obliges you to do.
Situations that raise values
All 16 situationsReal cases a class can argue about, where this concept is what is actually at stake.
- Measuring national happinessSouth Asia
- What the Chipko villagers knewIndia
- Demonetisation and the missing counterfactualIndia
- The economy that does not count the householdGlobal
- The Green Revolution's two ledgersIndia
- The appetite plant and the patentAfrica
- A film industry the textbooks missedAfrica
- The music the state could not stopThe Middle East and North Africa