Colonial History and Postcolonial Science Studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4054007 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sanjay Seth (0000-0002-2591-6977, corresponding author), Suman Seth |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 2017 |
| Issue | 127 |
| Pages | 63-85 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Radical History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/01636545-3690882 |
| OpenAlex | W2594005467 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 59 |
It was once not uncommon for histories of colonial science and medicine to draw on postcolonial theory. Today one finds many fewer such histories, despite the growing popularity of postcolonial science studies. This essay seeks to understand why and to make the case for expanding postcolonial science studies to once again include the colonial within its remit. It offers a history of postcolonial approaches to science and medicine from the mid-1980s to the end of the twentieth century. It then examines the turn, around 2000, toward studies of the present and near past in works on postcolonial technoscience. Perhaps ironically, the very suitedness of postcolonial approaches to our "globalized" present may have seemed to limit their applicability to the colonial and precolonial past. Finally, the essay looks to the future and argues that attention to colonial history would inform and improve contemporary studies of postcoloniality
Neocolonialism · Popularity · Technoscience · History of Science and Medicine · History of Science and Natural History · Race, Genetics, and Society
Nineteenth-century survey sciences
Difference and Disease
Deep Empire
(New) Histories of Science, in and beyond Modern Europe
White Supremacy, Scientific Racism, and Extractivism
Re-examining Postcolonial Science Education Within a Power-Knowledge Framework
West-Centric Divide, Global Health, and Postcolonial Intervention
Trans-Himalayan science in mid-twentieth century China and India
Framing regenerative medicine
Im/mobilities and dis/connectivities in medical globalisation
Taj Mahal, circulations of science, and (post) colonial present
Developing CTS 4-o
Psychology and psychiatry in the global world
Technology and Critique
Botanizing in the borderlands
Making heart-lung machines work in India
Strategies for including communication of non-Western and indigenous knowledges in science communication histories
Epilogue
Innovation in a crisis
Postcolonial technoscience revisited
Blood purity and scientific independence
[Un]Muffled Histories
Settler Computing
The Disappearing Microbiota
How Do Metrics Shape Polities? From Analogue to Digital Measurement Regimes in International Health Politics
International development and the social sciences
Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa
Staying alive
When Nature Goes Public
Imperial Eyes
Provincializing Europe
La Tierra Es Plana
Race to the Finish
The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader
Culture, globalization, and the world-system
Agricultural Hybridity and the “Pathology” of Traditional Ways
Linguistics and Indigenous American Languages
Beyond Postcolonialism … and Postpositivism
Where is the postcolonial history of medicine
Science in motion
Entangled Knowledge
Inventing the Indigenous
Making Global Health History
The Mitochondrial eve of modern genetics
Bioprospecting's representational dilemma
The Half-Life of Empire in Outer Space
Rupture-Talk in the Nuclear Age
Randomized Controlled Crime
A Postcolonial Moment in Science Studies
Security, Disease, Commerce
Latent life
Inventing the Indigenous
Far-Fetched Facts
A Postcolonial Moment in Science Studies
Re-imagining land ownership in Australia
Postcolonial Disorders
Randomized Controlled Crime
Genomic articulations of indigeneity
Orphan DNA
Indigenous body parts, mutating temporalities, and the half-lives of postcolonial technoscience
Security, Disease, Commerce
Introduction
The importance of being Uros
Subaltern Studies as Postcolonial Criticism
Sex in Development
Social and public experiments and new figurations of science and politics in postcolonial Africa1
From subjugated knowledge to conjugated subjects
Postcolonial and feminist philosophies of science and technology
Science "Gone Native" in Colonial India
When Science Became Western
Sciences and the Global
Global Histories, Vernacular Science, and African Genealogies; or, Is the History of Science Ready for the World
Encountering Development
The Anthropology of Development and Globalization
The Possession of Kuru
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,78 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |