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  Science and Society in Southern Africa (Studies in Imperialism (Paperback)) (Paperback) Edited by Saul Dubow

  

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  Short Description for Science and Society in Southern AfricaExamines the relationship between scientific claims and practices on the one hand and the exercise of colonial power on the other. This title 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.
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  • Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Published: 26 June 2009
  • Format: Paperback 256 pages
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  • Categories: Social & Cultural Anthropology | Impact Of Science & Technology On Society | African History | Colonialism & Imperialism
  • ISBN 13: 9780719080487 ISBN 10: 0719080487
  • Sales rank: 416,115

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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.