Book Review: The Green Salesman: reflections on the book and film, 'An inconvenient truth' by Albert Gore Jr.
The Green Salesman: reflections on the book and film, 'An inconvenient truth', by Albert Gore Jr. Emmaus, PA, Rodale Press, 2006. ISBN: 9781594865671
Learning from Lomborg: or where do anti‐environmentalists come from?
SCIENCE GOES TO MARKET Whether we think of it as a new mode of knowledge production or as a more general condition of ‘epistemic drift’, there has been a rather significant change in the social relations of science over the past 20 years. As a neo-liberal ideology has spread around the world, infusing public policy and the public sphere itself with a kind of overarching commercial mentality, a large part of the scientific enterprise has gone to market. In almost all countries of the world, scientists are now routinely expected to sell themselves and their expertise to the highest bidder, while governments, as well as intergovernmental bodies such as the European Commission, spend much of the time and energy devoted to science policy deliberations to devising ways to bring university researchers into more intimate relations with private companies. For Michael Gibbons and his co-authors (1994), traditional forms of discipline-based knowledge production (what they term ‘mode 1’) have been more or less replaced by new forms that transcend disciplinary boundaries and are directly oriented toward ‘contexts of application’. A new mode of knowledge production—socalled ‘mode 2’—has emerged which challenges the values or norms that had previously governed the scientific enterprise. Already in the 1980s, Aant Elzinga (1985) had come to view the emerging commercialization with alarm, as he noted that established epistemic criteria, that is, the ways in which scientific truth claims are justified, were being put out of operation, as scientists increasingly found themselves in a condition of what he termed ‘epistemic drift’. More recently, the notion of a ‘triple helix’ of government, industry and
Looking for regional words in late seventeenth-century England: Bishop White Kennett and his glossary to Parochial Antiquities (1695) 1
The analysis of regional dialects in the Early Modern period has commonly been disregarded in favour of an ample scholarly interest in the ‘authorised’ version of English which came to be eventually established as a standard. The history of regional ‘Englishes’ at this time still remains to a very great extent in oblivion, owing mainly to an apparent dearth of direct textual evidence which might provide trustworthy data. Research in this field has been for the most part focused on phonological, orthographical and morphological traits by virtue of the rather more abundant information that dialect testimonies yield about them. Regional lexical diversity has, on the contrary, deserved no special attention as uncertainty arises with regard to what was provincially restricted and what was not. This paper endeavours to offer additional data to the gloomy lexical setting of Early Modern regional English. It is our aim to give a descriptive account of the dialect words collated by Bishop White Kennett’s glossary to Parochial Antiquities (1695). This underutilised specimen does actually widen the information furnished by other well known canonical word-lists and provides concrete geographical data that might contribute to bridging the gaps still existing in the history of lexical provincialisms at the time.