The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader
1st Edition
Published on 14. May 2014
495 pages
978-0-8223-9384-9 (ISBN)
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A collection of foundational and contemporary essays in postcolonial science studies.
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English
Place of publication
Durham, NC
United States
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Digital original
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3 maps, 3 figures, 3 tables
3 maps, 3 figures, 3 tables
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2,85 MB
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978-0-8223-9384-9 (9780822393849)
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Sandra Harding is Professor of Education and Women's Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her many books include Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities, also published by Duke University Press; The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader: Intellectual and Political Controversies; Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies; and The Science Question in Feminism.
Content
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction. Beyond Postcolonial Theory: Two Undertheorized Perspectives on Science and Technology 1
I. Counterhistories 33
1. Discovering the Oriental West / John M. Hobson 39
2. Long-Distance Corporations, Big Sciences, and the Geography of Knowledge / Steven J. Harris 61
3. Heroic Narratives of Quest and Discovery / Mary Terrall 84
4. Maria Sibylla Merian: A Woman of Art and Science / Ella Reitsma 103
5. Prospecting for Drugs: European Naturalists in the West Indies / Londa Schiebinger 110
6. Science and Colonial Expansion: The Role of the British Royal Botanical Gardens / Lucille H. Brockway 127
7. Out of Africa: Colonial Rice History in the Black Atlantic / Judith Carney 140
II. Other Cultures' Sciences 151
8. Navigation in the Western Carolines: A Traditional Science / Ward H. Goodenough 159
9. Science for the West, Myth for the Rest? / Colin Scott 175
10. Ecolinguistics, Linguistic Diversity, Ecological Diversity / Peter Mühlhäusler 198
11. Gender and Indigenous Knowledge / Helen Appleton, Maria E. Fernandez, Catherine L. M. Hill, and Consuelo Quiroz 211
12. Whose Knowledge, Whose Genes, Whose Rights? / Stephen B. Brush 225
13. The Role of the Global Network of Indigenous Knowledge Resource Centers in the Conservation of Cultural and Biological Diversity / D. Michael Warren 247
III. Residues and Reinventions
14. Development and the Anthropology of Modernity / Arturo Escobar 269
15. Tradition and Gender in Modernization Theory / Catherine V. Scott 290
16. Security and Survival: Why Do Poor People Have Many Children? / Betsy Hartmann 310
17. Call for a New Approach / Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment 318
18. The Human Genome Diversity Project: What Went Wrong? / Jenny Reardon 321
19. Bioprospecting's Representational Dilemma / Cori Hayden 343
IV. Moving Forward: Possible Pathways 365
20. Islamic Science: The Contemporary Debate / Ziauddin Sardar 383
21. Mining Civilizational Knowledge / Susantha Goonatilake 380
22. Toward the Integration of Knowledge Systems: Challenges to Thought and Practice / Catherine A. Odora Hoppers 388
23. Human Well-Being and Federal Science: What's the Connection? / Daniel Sarewitz 403
24. Science in a Era of Globalization: Alternative Pathways / David J. Hess 419
25. Civic Science for Sustainability: Reframing the Role of Experts, Policymakers, and Citizens in Environmental Governance / Karen Bäckstrand 439
Copyright Acknowledgments 459
Index 463
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction. Beyond Postcolonial Theory: Two Undertheorized Perspectives on Science and Technology 1
I. Counterhistories 33
1. Discovering the Oriental West / John M. Hobson 39
2. Long-Distance Corporations, Big Sciences, and the Geography of Knowledge / Steven J. Harris 61
3. Heroic Narratives of Quest and Discovery / Mary Terrall 84
4. Maria Sibylla Merian: A Woman of Art and Science / Ella Reitsma 103
5. Prospecting for Drugs: European Naturalists in the West Indies / Londa Schiebinger 110
6. Science and Colonial Expansion: The Role of the British Royal Botanical Gardens / Lucille H. Brockway 127
7. Out of Africa: Colonial Rice History in the Black Atlantic / Judith Carney 140
II. Other Cultures' Sciences 151
8. Navigation in the Western Carolines: A Traditional Science / Ward H. Goodenough 159
9. Science for the West, Myth for the Rest? / Colin Scott 175
10. Ecolinguistics, Linguistic Diversity, Ecological Diversity / Peter Mühlhäusler 198
11. Gender and Indigenous Knowledge / Helen Appleton, Maria E. Fernandez, Catherine L. M. Hill, and Consuelo Quiroz 211
12. Whose Knowledge, Whose Genes, Whose Rights? / Stephen B. Brush 225
13. The Role of the Global Network of Indigenous Knowledge Resource Centers in the Conservation of Cultural and Biological Diversity / D. Michael Warren 247
III. Residues and Reinventions
14. Development and the Anthropology of Modernity / Arturo Escobar 269
15. Tradition and Gender in Modernization Theory / Catherine V. Scott 290
16. Security and Survival: Why Do Poor People Have Many Children? / Betsy Hartmann 310
17. Call for a New Approach / Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment 318
18. The Human Genome Diversity Project: What Went Wrong? / Jenny Reardon 321
19. Bioprospecting's Representational Dilemma / Cori Hayden 343
IV. Moving Forward: Possible Pathways 365
20. Islamic Science: The Contemporary Debate / Ziauddin Sardar 383
21. Mining Civilizational Knowledge / Susantha Goonatilake 380
22. Toward the Integration of Knowledge Systems: Challenges to Thought and Practice / Catherine A. Odora Hoppers 388
23. Human Well-Being and Federal Science: What's the Connection? / Daniel Sarewitz 403
24. Science in a Era of Globalization: Alternative Pathways / David J. Hess 419
25. Civic Science for Sustainability: Reframing the Role of Experts, Policymakers, and Citizens in Environmental Governance / Karen Bäckstrand 439
Copyright Acknowledgments 459
Index 463
