Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

For twenty years, the renowned philosopher of science Sandra Harding 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 wanted for classroom use. In classic and recent essays, international scholars from a range of disciplines think through a broad 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.ContributorsHelen AppletonKaren BackstrandLucille H. BrockwayStephen B. BrushJudith CarneyCommittee on Women, Population, and the EnvironmentArturo EscobarMaria E. FernandezWard H. GoodenoughSusantha GoonatilakeSandra HardingSteven J. HarrisBetsy HartmannCori HaydenCatherine L. M. HillJohn M. HobsonPeter MuhlhauslerCatherine A. Odora HoppersConsuelo QuirozJenny ReardonElla ReitsmaZiauddin SardarDaniel SarewitzLonda SchiebingerCatherine V. ScottColin ScottMary TerrallD. Michael Warren

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 493
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822393849
• Artikelnr.: 54817264

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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