Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader

Name: Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader
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ISBN: 9780822349570

ISBN-10: 0822349574

ISBN-13: 9780822349570

Edition: 2011

Authors: Sandra Harding

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For twenty years, the renowned philosopher of science Sandra Harding has argued that science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, and feminist critique must inform one another. In The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader, Harding puts those fields in critical conversation, assembling the anthology that she has long wanted for classroom use. In classic and recent essays, international scholars from a range of disciplines think through a broad array of science and technology philosophies and practices. The contributors reevaluate conventional accounts of the West's scientific and technological projects in the past and present, rethink the strengths and limitations of…

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List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 9/12/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 504
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 1.04" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

SANDRA HARDING, a philosopher, is Professor of Education and Women Studies at UCLA. She is author of Whose Science: Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives and The Science Question in Feminism, and editor of Feminism and Methodology: Social Science Issues.



Preface


Acknowledgments


introduction Beyond Postcolonial Theory:Two Undertheorized Perspectives on Science and Technology



Counterhistories



Discovering the Oriental West




Long-Distance Corporations, Big Sciences, and the Geography of Knowledge




Heroic Narratives of Quest and Discovery




Maria Sibylla Merian: A Woman of Art and Science




Prospecting for Drugs: European Naturalists in the West Indies




Science and Colonial Expansion:The Role of die British Royal Botanic Gardens




Out of Africa: Colonial Rice History in the Black Atlantic




Other Cultures Sciences



Navigation in the Western Carolines: A Traditional Science




Science for the West, Myth for the Rest? The Case of James Bay Cree Knowledge Construction




Ecolinguistics, Linguistic Diversity, Ecological Diversity




Gender and Indigenous Knowledge




Whose Knowledge, Whose Genes, Whose Rights?




The Role of the Global Network of Indigenous Knowledge Resource Centers in the Conservation of Cultural and Biological Diversity




Residues and Reinventions



Development and the Anthropology of Modernity




Tradition and Gender in Modernization Theory




Security and Survival:Why Do Poor People Have Many Children?




Call for a New Approach Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment



The Human Genome Diversity Project: What Went Wrong?




Bioprospecting's Representational Dilemma




Moving Forward: Possible Pathways



Islamic Science: The Contemporary Debate




Mining Civilizational Knowledge




Towards the Integration of Knowledge Systems:Challenges to Thought and Practice




Human Well-Being and Federal Science:What's the Connection?




Science in an Era of Globalization: Alternative Pathways




Civic Science for Sustainability: Reframing the Role of Experts, Policy-Makers, and Citizens in Environmental Governance



CopyRight Acknowledgements


Index