The postcolonial science and technology studies reader / edited by Sandra Harding.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harding, Sandra G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Social aspects.

Science.

Feminism and science.

Science and civilization.

Postcolonialism.

Physical Description:

xiii, 476 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.

Summary:

For Twenty -Years, The Renowned Philosopher of Science Sandra Hardings 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 wantd for classroom use. In classic and recent essays, international scholars from a range of disciplines think through abroad 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 non-Western societies' knowledge traditions, and assess the legacies of colonialism and imperialism. The collection concludes with forward-looking essays, which explore strategies for cultivating new visions of a multicultural democratic world of sciences and for turning those visions into realities. Feminist science and technology concerns run throughout the reader and are the focus of several essays. Harding provides helpful background for each essay in her introductions to the reader's four sections sections. Book jacket.

Contents:

Discovering the Oriental West / John M. Hobson

Long-distance corporations, big sciences, and the geography of knowledge / Steven J. Harris

Heroic narratives of quest and discovery / Mary Terrall

Maria Sibylla Merian : a woman of art and science / Ella Reitsma

Prospecting for drugs : European naturalists in the West Indies / Londa Schiebinger

Science and colonial expansion : the role of the British Royal Botanical Gardens / Lucille H. Brockway

Out of Africa : colonial rice history in the Black Atlantic / Judith Carney

Navigation in the western Carolines : a traditional science / Ward H. Goodenough

Science for the West, myth for the rest? / Colin Scott

Ecolinguistics, linguistic diversity, ecological diversity / Peter Mülhäusler

Gender and indigenous knowledge / Helen Appleton, Maria E. Fernandez, Catherine L. M. Hill, and Consuelo Quiroz

Whose knowledge, whose genes, whose rights? / Stephen B. Brush

The role of the global network of indigenous knowledge resource centers in the conservation of cultural and biological diversity / D. Michael Warren

Development and the anthropology of modernity / Arturo Escobar

Tradition and gender in modernization theory / Catherine V. Scott

Security and survival : why do poor people have many children? / Betsy Hartmann

Call for a new approach / Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment

The Human Genome Diversity Project : what went wrong? / Jenny Reardon

Bioprospecting's representational dilemma / Cori Hayden

Islamic science : the contemporary debate / Ziauddin Sardar

Mining civilizational knowledge / Susantha Goonatilake

Towards the integration of knowledge systems : challenges to thought and practice / Catherine A. Odora Hoppers

Human well-being and federal science : what's the connection? / Daniel Sarewitz

Science in an era of globalization : alternative pathways / David J. Hess

Civic science for sustainability : reframing the role of experts, policymakers, and citizens in environmental governance / Karin Bäckstrand.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822349365

0822349361

9780822349570

0822349574

OCLC:

700406626