February 20, 2006 - 00:04
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I was just looking through the book list on the course site. And I noticed that all of the books appear to have been written by white men. I was just wondering if anyone knew of any books written by women/minority scholars, too. I know the book list is a work in progress, and I'd be happy to see if we can flesh it out a little more. But, if Emergence/Complexity is a male-dominated field, that'd be interesting to know, too.
I did a quick amazon search of emergence and didn't find much. Anyone else?
Comments
Emergence - Beyond white males
Submitted by PaulGrobstein on February 20, 2006 - 09:31 Permalink
This is just off the top of my head. So, yes, there are a lot of relevant books by people other than white males. So how come I didn't think of them before? Notice that these titles not only don't for the most part sound "scientific" but don't include words like "complexity" or "emergence". They are in fact very much about "complexity/emergence" but they don't treat it as a noteworthy thing in and of itself, distinct from the circumstances within which the perspective is being employed. So maybe the point is that its only white males (or a subset of them) who think complexity/emergence is "surprising" and hence write about it? For most other people its ... just the way life is?
And a book list is, at any given time, emergent and emerging?
More white males: on agents and religion
Submitted by Doug Blank on February 20, 2006 - 10:12 Permalink
And one more white male...
Submitted by Doug Blank on February 20, 2006 - 10:32 Permalink
Thank you!
Submitted by Flora Shepherd on February 20, 2006 - 10:46 Permalink