Beyond the Veil of Knowledge

Triangulating Security, Democracy, and Academic Scholarship

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, International, International Relations
Cover of the book Beyond the Veil of Knowledge by Piki Ish-Shalom, University of Michigan Press
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Author: Piki Ish-Shalom ISBN: 9780472124664
Publisher: University of Michigan Press Publication: January 28, 2019
Imprint: University of Michigan Press Language: English
Author: Piki Ish-Shalom
ISBN: 9780472124664
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication: January 28, 2019
Imprint: University of Michigan Press
Language: English

Is there a need to remodel constructivism to be more politically attuned? Author Piki Ish-Shalom calls for an activist academy that engages society and the polity to prevent the watering down of democracy, while helping to create a space for criticism. In this book, he suggests several concrete measures for this engagement within three spheres:  individual theoretical work, the academic community as a whole, and within society and the polity. Beyond the Veil of Knowledge suggests that essentially contested concepts are a key medium that politicians use to try to minimize public resistance to their political goals. For constructivists, this means that the social construction of both social knowledge and the social world can be understood as the sociopolitical construction of knowledge and the sociopolitical world.

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Is there a need to remodel constructivism to be more politically attuned? Author Piki Ish-Shalom calls for an activist academy that engages society and the polity to prevent the watering down of democracy, while helping to create a space for criticism. In this book, he suggests several concrete measures for this engagement within three spheres:  individual theoretical work, the academic community as a whole, and within society and the polity. Beyond the Veil of Knowledge suggests that essentially contested concepts are a key medium that politicians use to try to minimize public resistance to their political goals. For constructivists, this means that the social construction of both social knowledge and the social world can be understood as the sociopolitical construction of knowledge and the sociopolitical world.

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