Science and Society in Southern Africa (Studies in Imperialism) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719058120 ISBN 13: 9780719058127

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2001

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Saul Dubow is Reader in History in the School of African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex.

Review:

‘‘A strength of the volume is its coverage of the “applied” aspects of knowledge, from Anthropology through to Eugenics and state and social planning.  There is also a commendable sensitivity to the unique ethnic dynamics of southern Africa, not least, for example, the complications of an “indigenized” and powerful Afrikaner nationalism.” --Donal Lowry, Oxford Brookes University

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0719058120
• ISBN 13: 9780719058127
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Dubow Saul