Helen Tilley
Biographic Data
| ID | 200385 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Tilley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Tilley |
| SIGNATURE | TILLEY H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9524-546X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ignoring the Obvious About the World
This essay takes up four kinds of “not knowing” that have been central to knowledge-making in African Studies. I chose ignorance and African history to open a dialogue with the other authors in this issue. The essay deals with therapeutic non-systems, cultural ignorance, disappearing knowledge, and sovereign forms of community care. It uses a now-classic article by Murray Last, on the health-seeking practices of Hausa speakers in northern Nigeria…
A place-based system? Regional policy levers and the UK’s productivity challenge
National governments are increasingly focusing on ‘place’ in attempts to tackle economic challenges. This puts pressure on regions to deliver productivity improvements. Drawing from stakeholder interviews, document analysis and secondary data analysis, this paper considers the productivity policy levers available to regional leaders. Three UK regions are compared in relation to four policy levers (nodality; authority; treasure; organization) and …
Beyond “Plato to Nato”. Navigating the Global Turn in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
International audience
Beyond “Plato to Nato”. Navigating the global turn in the history of science, technology, and medicine
Medical Cultures, Therapeutic Properties, and Laws in Global History
Previous articleNext article FreeMedical Cultures, Therapeutic Properties, and Laws in Global HistoryHelen TilleyHelen Tilley*History Department, Northwestern University, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA; [email protected].For their astute feedback and comments on earlier drafts, my heartfelt thanks to Projit Mukharji, Suman Seth, Ronald Numbers, Paul Ramírez, David Schoenbrun, W. Patrick McCray, Justin Stearns, Sheila Ann Dean, and tw…
Traditional Medicine Goes Global
The concept of traditional medicine, for all its multifaceted roots, achieved global prominence only during the Cold War era in the wake of massive decolonization. While developments within Asia contributed to this shift, it was often leaders and diplomats from newly independent African countries who first put different aspects of traditional medicine forward for debate within United Nations agencies. The Organization of African Unity (OAU), alon…
Covid-19 across Africa
In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, few journalists or scholars in Europe and North America paid much attention to how people or governments were responding to SARS-coV-2 anywhere in Africa. As the pandemic progressed, in fact, key agencies—from the World Economic Forum to the Economic Commission for Africa to the Global Health Security Index—all predicted or implied that there would be catastrophic fatality rates in African countries. …
A Great (Scientific) Divergence
Historians of science have a lingering Europe (and U.S.) problem, even as the field has undergone its own transnational, imperial, and global turns that have broadened its scope. Likewise, area studies scholars have a lingering science problem, in spite of the growing chorus of voices insisting that non-European peoples’ knowledge and innovations warrant a place in global histories about science, technology, and medicine. This essay examines thes…
General editor’s introduction
The relationship between anthropology and imperialism has long been a subject of debate -at least from the years between the two world wars of the twentieth century.However, although anthropology has been seen to have its origins and development deeply implicated in the practice, performance and perceptions of imperial rule, it is far from being unique in this regard.The disciplines of Geography, Museology, Archaeology, Tropical Medicine and Agri…
Index
Medicine, Empires, and Ethics in Colonial Africa
This essay examines the history of European empire building and health work in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on four patterns that shed light on the ethics of outside interventions: (1) the epidemiological and bodily harms caused by conquest and economic development; (2) the uneven and inadequate health infrastructures established during the colonial era, including certain iatrogenic consequences; (3) the ethical ambiguities and transgressions of …
Racial Science, Geopolitics, and Empires
Scholars interested in the history of racial science continue to puzzle over the ways in which such ideas endure. This essay takes up a variant on this theme by considering how critiques of ideas about racial purity and hierarchies, expressed at the Universal Races Congress of 1911, were part of a larger intellectual project that simultaneously under- mined ideas of fixed racial types and bolstered identity categories defined in racial terms. Eff…
Africa as a Living Laboratory
Utopia/Dystopia
Introduction: Utopia and Dystopia beyond Space and Time 1 PART ONE: ANIMA CHAPTER 1: Fredric Jameson Utopia as Method, or the Uses of the Future 21 CHAPTER 2: Jennifer Wenzel Literacy and Futurity: Millennial Dreaming on the Nineteenth- Century Southern African Frontier 45 CHAPTER 3: Dipesh Chakrabarty Bourgeois Categories Made Global: The Utopian and Actual Lives of Historical Documents in India 73 CHAPTER 4: Luise White The Utopia of Working Ph…
Introduction. Utopia and Dystopia beyond Space and Time
Global Histories, Vernacular Science, and African Genealogies; or, Is the History of Science Ready for the World
Scholars in imperial and science studies have recently begun to examine more systematically the different ways knowledge systems around the world have intersected. This essay concentrates on one aspect of this process, the codification of research into "primitive" or "indigenous" knowledge, especially knowledge that was transmitted orally, and argues that such investigations were a by-product of four interrelated phenomena: the globalization of t…
Ordering Africa
Ecologies of Complexity
Tropical Africa was one of the last regions of the world to experience formal European colonialism, a process that coincided with the advent of a range of new scientific specialties and research methods. The history of British attempts to understand and control African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in cattle), following the intense human epidemics that broke out between 1895 and 1910, reveals hitherto ignored scientific …
A Colonial Lexicon
Ordering Africa
Global Histories, Vernacular Science, and African Genealogies; or, Is the History of Science Ready for the World
Scholars in imperial and science studies have recently begun to examine more systematically the different ways knowledge systems around the world have intersected. This essay concentrates on one aspect of this process, the codification of research into "primitive" or "indigenous" knowledge, especially knowledge that was transmitted orally, and argues that such investigations were a by-product of four interrelated phenomena: the globalization of t…
A place-based system? Regional policy levers and the UK’s productivity challenge
National governments are increasingly focusing on ‘place’ in attempts to tackle economic challenges. This puts pressure on regions to deliver productivity improvements. Drawing from stakeholder interviews, document analysis and secondary data analysis, this paper considers the productivity policy levers available to regional leaders. Three UK regions are compared in relation to four policy levers (nodality; authority; treasure; organization) and …
Ecologies of Complexity
Tropical Africa was one of the last regions of the world to experience formal European colonialism, a process that coincided with the advent of a range of new scientific specialties and research methods. The history of British attempts to understand and control African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in cattle), following the intense human epidemics that broke out between 1895 and 1910, reveals hitherto ignored scientific …
Racial Science, Geopolitics, and Empires
Scholars interested in the history of racial science continue to puzzle over the ways in which such ideas endure. This essay takes up a variant on this theme by considering how critiques of ideas about racial purity and hierarchies, expressed at the Universal Races Congress of 1911, were part of a larger intellectual project that simultaneously under- mined ideas of fixed racial types and bolstered identity categories defined in racial terms. Eff…
Medical Cultures, Therapeutic Properties, and Laws in Global History
Previous articleNext article FreeMedical Cultures, Therapeutic Properties, and Laws in Global HistoryHelen TilleyHelen Tilley*History Department, Northwestern University, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA; [email protected].For their astute feedback and comments on earlier drafts, my heartfelt thanks to Projit Mukharji, Suman Seth, Ronald Numbers, Paul Ramírez, David Schoenbrun, W. Patrick McCray, Justin Stearns, Sheila Ann Dean, and tw…
Traditional Medicine Goes Global
The concept of traditional medicine, for all its multifaceted roots, achieved global prominence only during the Cold War era in the wake of massive decolonization. While developments within Asia contributed to this shift, it was often leaders and diplomats from newly independent African countries who first put different aspects of traditional medicine forward for debate within United Nations agencies. The Organization of African Unity (OAU), alon…
A Great (Scientific) Divergence
Historians of science have a lingering Europe (and U.S.) problem, even as the field has undergone its own transnational, imperial, and global turns that have broadened its scope. Likewise, area studies scholars have a lingering science problem, in spite of the growing chorus of voices insisting that non-European peoples’ knowledge and innovations warrant a place in global histories about science, technology, and medicine. This essay examines thes…
A Colonial Lexicon
A Colonial Lexicon
Ecologies of Complexity
Tropical Africa was one of the last regions of the world to experience formal European colonialism, a process that coincided with the advent of a range of new scientific specialties and research methods. The history of British attempts to understand and control African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in cattle), following the intense human epidemics that broke out between 1895 and 1910, reveals hitherto ignored scientific …
Ordering Africa
Utopia/Dystopia
Introduction: Utopia and Dystopia beyond Space and Time 1 PART ONE: ANIMA CHAPTER 1: Fredric Jameson Utopia as Method, or the Uses of the Future 21 CHAPTER 2: Jennifer Wenzel Literacy and Futurity: Millennial Dreaming on the Nineteenth- Century Southern African Frontier 45 CHAPTER 3: Dipesh Chakrabarty Bourgeois Categories Made Global: The Utopian and Actual Lives of Historical Documents in India 73 CHAPTER 4: Luise White The Utopia of Working Ph…
Introduction. Utopia and Dystopia beyond Space and Time
Global Histories, Vernacular Science, and African Genealogies; or, Is the History of Science Ready for the World
Scholars in imperial and science studies have recently begun to examine more systematically the different ways knowledge systems around the world have intersected. This essay concentrates on one aspect of this process, the codification of research into "primitive" or "indigenous" knowledge, especially knowledge that was transmitted orally, and argues that such investigations were a by-product of four interrelated phenomena: the globalization of t…
Africa as a Living Laboratory
Racial Science, Geopolitics, and Empires
Scholars interested in the history of racial science continue to puzzle over the ways in which such ideas endure. This essay takes up a variant on this theme by considering how critiques of ideas about racial purity and hierarchies, expressed at the Universal Races Congress of 1911, were part of a larger intellectual project that simultaneously under- mined ideas of fixed racial types and bolstered identity categories defined in racial terms. Eff…
Medicine, Empires, and Ethics in Colonial Africa
This essay examines the history of European empire building and health work in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on four patterns that shed light on the ethics of outside interventions: (1) the epidemiological and bodily harms caused by conquest and economic development; (2) the uneven and inadequate health infrastructures established during the colonial era, including certain iatrogenic consequences; (3) the ethical ambiguities and transgressions of …
General editor’s introduction
The relationship between anthropology and imperialism has long been a subject of debate -at least from the years between the two world wars of the twentieth century.However, although anthropology has been seen to have its origins and development deeply implicated in the practice, performance and perceptions of imperial rule, it is far from being unique in this regard.The disciplines of Geography, Museology, Archaeology, Tropical Medicine and Agri…
Index
A Great (Scientific) Divergence
Historians of science have a lingering Europe (and U.S.) problem, even as the field has undergone its own transnational, imperial, and global turns that have broadened its scope. Likewise, area studies scholars have a lingering science problem, in spite of the growing chorus of voices insisting that non-European peoples’ knowledge and innovations warrant a place in global histories about science, technology, and medicine. This essay examines thes…
Covid-19 across Africa
In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, few journalists or scholars in Europe and North America paid much attention to how people or governments were responding to SARS-coV-2 anywhere in Africa. As the pandemic progressed, in fact, key agencies—from the World Economic Forum to the Economic Commission for Africa to the Global Health Security Index—all predicted or implied that there would be catastrophic fatality rates in African countries. …
Medical Cultures, Therapeutic Properties, and Laws in Global History
Previous articleNext article FreeMedical Cultures, Therapeutic Properties, and Laws in Global HistoryHelen TilleyHelen Tilley*History Department, Northwestern University, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA; [email protected].For their astute feedback and comments on earlier drafts, my heartfelt thanks to Projit Mukharji, Suman Seth, Ronald Numbers, Paul Ramírez, David Schoenbrun, W. Patrick McCray, Justin Stearns, Sheila Ann Dean, and tw…
Traditional Medicine Goes Global
The concept of traditional medicine, for all its multifaceted roots, achieved global prominence only during the Cold War era in the wake of massive decolonization. While developments within Asia contributed to this shift, it was often leaders and diplomats from newly independent African countries who first put different aspects of traditional medicine forward for debate within United Nations agencies. The Organization of African Unity (OAU), alon…
Beyond “Plato to Nato”. Navigating the Global Turn in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
International audience
Beyond “Plato to Nato”. Navigating the global turn in the history of science, technology, and medicine
A place-based system? Regional policy levers and the UK’s productivity challenge
National governments are increasingly focusing on ‘place’ in attempts to tackle economic challenges. This puts pressure on regions to deliver productivity improvements. Drawing from stakeholder interviews, document analysis and secondary data analysis, this paper considers the productivity policy levers available to regional leaders. Three UK regions are compared in relation to four policy levers (nodality; authority; treasure; organization) and …
Ignoring the Obvious About the World
This essay takes up four kinds of “not knowing” that have been central to knowledge-making in African Studies. I chose ignorance and African history to open a dialogue with the other authors in this issue. The essay deals with therapeutic non-systems, cultural ignorance, disappearing knowledge, and sovereign forms of community care. It uses a now-classic article by Murray Last, on the health-seeking practices of Hausa speakers in northern Nigeria…
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