Saul Dubow 
Science and society in southern Africa [PDF ebook] 

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This collection, dealing with case studies drawn from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Mauritius, examines the relationship between scientific claims and practices, and the exercise of colonial power. It challenges conventional views that portray science as a detached mode of reasoning with the capacity to confer benefits in a more or less even-handed manner. That science has the potential to further the collective good is not fundamentally at issue, but science can also be seen as complicit in processes of colonial domination.
Not only did science assist in bolstering aspects of colonial power and exploitation, it also possessed a significant ideological component: it offered a means of legitimating colonial authority by counter-poising Western rationality to native superstition and it served to enhance the self-image of colonial or settler elites in important respects. This innovative volume ranges broadly through topics such as statistics, medicine, eugenics, agriculture, entomology and botany.

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Saul Dubow is Professor of History at the University of Sussex

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Idioma Inglés ● Formato PDF ● Páginas 256 ● ISBN 9781526119780 ● Tamaño de archivo 16.1 MB ● Editor Saul Dubow ● Editorial Manchester University Press ● Ciudad Manchester ● País GB ● Publicado 2017 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 7649139 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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