What Gets Lost in Translation? Epistemic Tensions between Translation and Diffusion in Practice-Oriented Scholarship.
This paper proposes a feminist-informed metascience theory to explain the interconnected processes of idea creation, translation, and diffusion. Drawing on feminist critiques of science centered on perspective, power, and praxis, we develop a creation–diffusion model that jointly examines how ideas...
| Publicado en: | Gender & Society Vol. 40; no. 4; pp. 535 - 568 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Aug2026
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