Science and society in Southern Africa / edited by Saul Dubow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dubow, Saul.

Series:

Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)

Studies in imperialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Social aspects--Africa, Southern.

Science.

Science--Social aspects.

Science--Political aspects.

Southern Africa.

Science--Political aspects--Africa, Southern.

Physical Description:

x, 256 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

This collection, dealing with case studies drawn from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Mauritius, examines the relationship between scientific claims and practices on the one hand and the exercise of colonial power on the other. 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0719058120

OCLC:

44915189