Andrew Ede
Biographic Data
| ID | 460909 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Ede |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Ede |
| SIGNATURE | EDE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8583-9259 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Roundtable review of Shola Adenekan's African Literature in the Digital Age (2021)Digital Afropolitan Futures
Shola Adenekan’s African Literature in the Digital Age (2021) is an analysis of how global, local, and continental African digital networks have revolutionised the way in which African literature i
Area Studies
African Literature has gone through many phases: from its being denied a literary category to becoming Third World, Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature respectively and to its latter categorization as a “Global Anglophone Literature” subsumed under an overarching “Area Studies” American academic quota. This essay examines these shifts between categorizations and focalizes the politics, both professional and disciplinary, that undergirds such…
"Teardrops on the Weser" (Excerpts)
Poetry
Afropolitan Genealogies
Afropolitanism’s first enunciation in public discourse can be traced to Taiye Selasi’s 2005 online article, Bye-Bye Babar. This idea of a new subjective experience of African diasporic self-identity then migrated into academic contemplation initially through Achille Mbembe, Wawrzinek and Makokha, Simon Gikandi, and Chielozona Eze’s scholarly and philosophical deepening of Afropolitanism, which has since been variously expanded by many Africanist …
The politics of Afropolitanism
Afropolitanism has evolved over the past 10 years as a rubric for describing transnational African identity. This piece develops a cultural-materialist analysis of that phenomenon as a metropolitan instrument of self-affirmation, in the first instance. I argue that the phenomenon of Afropolitanism is to some extent a subjective and cultivated condition, and has become a cultural instrument of black political agency in the Metropolis. However, the…
Ulf Schmidt. Secret Science. A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments
The history of chemical warfare has been gaining more interest in the past few years in large part because of the centenary of the first major use of chemicals at the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915. Schmidt's book is a welcome addition to the literature and represents a view of chemical warfare that is focused on the medical and political side rather than the military aspects of the weapons. Before looking at some of the contents, however, it sho…
The scientists who came in from the cold
Then and now
Neither Physics nor Chemistry
Neither Physics nor Chemistry: A History of Quantum Chemistry, by Kostas Gavroglu and Ana Simoes. Transformation: Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 2012. xiv, 351 pp. $40.00 US (cloth). Kostas Gavroglu and Ana Simoes have presented a tour de force in their work on the history of quantum chemistry. Neither Physics nor Chemistry is not, however, for the casual reader. The authors assume that the …
The global literary canon and minor african literatures
lnternet, preter, distribuer et vendre des theses partout dans le monde, a des fins commerciales ou autres, sur support microforme, papier, electronique et/ou autres formats
Liquefaction of Helium and the Promotion of National Science
In 1923 John McLennan and his assistants succeeded in the liquefaction of helium. This event was heralded by the Canadian media as a major triumph of science. Yet it was neither a scientific first, nor a terminal experiment, but simply a means of producing material for use in McLennan's cryogenic research program. This article examines the events surrounding the liquefaction as they related to McLennan's efforts to promote national science and es…
Abraham Cressy Morrison in the Agora
Canons to Right of Them, Canons to Left of Them
Can or should the history of science have a master narrative? This is a question that has exercised the minds of many historians since the Strong Programme questioned the deep connection between a sort of philosophical success story and the nitty-gritty of scientific work. 1 Since the 1970s, most of the historians of science have spent our time in the microhistorical trenches, creating thick descriptions, examining winners and losers, problematiz…
Worldviews
Creating an Image of Science
The image of modern science and the modern scientist was the result of complex interactions among scientists, media sources, and the public. In 1937 chemists were the largest and most powerful group of scientists in the United States, but they had a poor public image because of chemical warfare. Morrison’s book was part of a larger effort to improve and Americanize the image of chemists. The article explores the place of Morrison’s book in the co…
The Police Code of Silence in Queensland The Impact of the Fitzgerald Inquiry Reforms
The politics of Afropolitanism
Afropolitanism has evolved over the past 10 years as a rubric for describing transnational African identity. This piece develops a cultural-materialist analysis of that phenomenon as a metropolitan instrument of self-affirmation, in the first instance. I argue that the phenomenon of Afropolitanism is to some extent a subjective and cultivated condition, and has become a cultural instrument of black political agency in the Metropolis. However, the…
Afropolitan Genealogies
Afropolitanism’s first enunciation in public discourse can be traced to Taiye Selasi’s 2005 online article, Bye-Bye Babar. This idea of a new subjective experience of African diasporic self-identity then migrated into academic contemplation initially through Achille Mbembe, Wawrzinek and Makokha, Simon Gikandi, and Chielozona Eze’s scholarly and philosophical deepening of Afropolitanism, which has since been variously expanded by many Africanist …
The global literary canon and minor african literatures
lnternet, preter, distribuer et vendre des theses partout dans le monde, a des fins commerciales ou autres, sur support microforme, papier, electronique et/ou autres formats
The Police Code of Silence in Queensland The Impact of the Fitzgerald Inquiry Reforms
Creating an Image of Science
The image of modern science and the modern scientist was the result of complex interactions among scientists, media sources, and the public. In 1937 chemists were the largest and most powerful group of scientists in the United States, but they had a poor public image because of chemical warfare. Morrison’s book was part of a larger effort to improve and Americanize the image of chemists. The article explores the place of Morrison’s book in the co…
Canons to Right of Them, Canons to Left of Them
Can or should the history of science have a master narrative? This is a question that has exercised the minds of many historians since the Strong Programme questioned the deep connection between a sort of philosophical success story and the nitty-gritty of scientific work. 1 Since the 1970s, most of the historians of science have spent our time in the microhistorical trenches, creating thick descriptions, examining winners and losers, problematiz…
Worldviews
Abraham Cressy Morrison in the Agora
Liquefaction of Helium and the Promotion of National Science
In 1923 John McLennan and his assistants succeeded in the liquefaction of helium. This event was heralded by the Canadian media as a major triumph of science. Yet it was neither a scientific first, nor a terminal experiment, but simply a means of producing material for use in McLennan's cryogenic research program. This article examines the events surrounding the liquefaction as they related to McLennan's efforts to promote national science and es…
Then and now
Neither Physics nor Chemistry
Neither Physics nor Chemistry: A History of Quantum Chemistry, by Kostas Gavroglu and Ana Simoes. Transformation: Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 2012. xiv, 351 pp. $40.00 US (cloth). Kostas Gavroglu and Ana Simoes have presented a tour de force in their work on the history of quantum chemistry. Neither Physics nor Chemistry is not, however, for the casual reader. The authors assume that the …
The global literary canon and minor african literatures
lnternet, preter, distribuer et vendre des theses partout dans le monde, a des fins commerciales ou autres, sur support microforme, papier, electronique et/ou autres formats
The scientists who came in from the cold
Ulf Schmidt. Secret Science. A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments
The history of chemical warfare has been gaining more interest in the past few years in large part because of the centenary of the first major use of chemicals at the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915. Schmidt's book is a welcome addition to the literature and represents a view of chemical warfare that is focused on the medical and political side rather than the military aspects of the weapons. Before looking at some of the contents, however, it sho…
The politics of Afropolitanism
Afropolitanism has evolved over the past 10 years as a rubric for describing transnational African identity. This piece develops a cultural-materialist analysis of that phenomenon as a metropolitan instrument of self-affirmation, in the first instance. I argue that the phenomenon of Afropolitanism is to some extent a subjective and cultivated condition, and has become a cultural instrument of black political agency in the Metropolis. However, the…
Afropolitan Genealogies
Afropolitanism’s first enunciation in public discourse can be traced to Taiye Selasi’s 2005 online article, Bye-Bye Babar. This idea of a new subjective experience of African diasporic self-identity then migrated into academic contemplation initially through Achille Mbembe, Wawrzinek and Makokha, Simon Gikandi, and Chielozona Eze’s scholarly and philosophical deepening of Afropolitanism, which has since been variously expanded by many Africanist …
"Teardrops on the Weser" (Excerpts)
Poetry
Roundtable review of Shola Adenekan's African Literature in the Digital Age (2021)Digital Afropolitan Futures
Shola Adenekan’s African Literature in the Digital Age (2021) is an analysis of how global, local, and continental African digital networks have revolutionised the way in which African literature i
Area Studies
African Literature has gone through many phases: from its being denied a literary category to becoming Third World, Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature respectively and to its latter categorization as a “Global Anglophone Literature” subsumed under an overarching “Area Studies” American academic quota. This essay examines these shifts between categorizations and focalizes the politics, both professional and disciplinary, that undergirds such…
Philosophy (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)