In the Image of Pasteur
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8940286 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aro Velmet (0009-0007-5174-1588, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 633-666 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00161071-8552489 |
| OpenAlex | W3088204537 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 41 |
How does an imperial lens change our view of capitalism and science in early twentieth-century France? Using the colonial expansion of the Pasteur Institutes as a case study, this article argues that French microbiologists developed both new business models and new values of masculine comportment during their time in the colonies. There the dynamic interaction between economic success and demonstration of scientific masculinity became particularly important in reshaping how Pastorians both saw the future of their institution and interpreted the meaning of its past. Against the image of the ascetic, nonprofit scientist, Pastorians in the colonies opposed an ambitious and entrepreneurial hero. After the Great War undermined the ascetic model and weakened the economic power of the metropolitan institute, colonial Pastorians were able to shape representations of the Pastorian network to the public and narrate the history of its founder as a heroic conqueror of the microbial world. Comment une optique impériale change-t-elle notre perspective sur le capitalisme et la science au début du vingtième siècle ? Prenant l'expansion coloniale des instituts Pasteur comme exemple, cet article avance que les microbiologistes français ont développé à la fois de nouveaux modèles économiques et de nouvelles valeurs du comportement masculin au cours de leur séjour dans les colonies. Ici, l'interaction dynamique entre le succès économique et la démonstration de la masculinité scientifique est devenue particulièrement importante pour remodeler à la fois la façon dont les pastoriens voyaient l'avenir de leur institution et interpretaient le sens de son passé. Contre l'image du scientifique ascétique, les pastoriens coloniaux opposaient un héros ambitieux et entreprenant. Après que la Grande Guerre a sapé le modèle ascétique et affaibli le pouvoir économique de l'Institut métropolitain, les pastoriens coloniaux ont pu façonner des représentations publiques du réseau pastorien et raconter l'histoire de son fondateur comme conquérant héroïque du monde microbien
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A mission to civilize
The Image of Man
Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France
Science-Mart
Medicine and the Saints
Remaking the Male Body
The Trial of Madame Caillaux
The pasteurization of France
The Colonial Unconscious
The Pasteurization of Algeria
Beauty and big business
Embodying ‘the new white race’
Objectivity and the Escape from Perspective
Rhetoric, Enterprise and Professional Authority
The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood
Heroes of Empire
Heroes of EmpireFive Charismatic Men and the Conquest of Africa
Colonial Pathologies
Creating French Settlements Overseas
A Body Worth Defending
Masters of Theory
Introduction
Le premier sexe. Mutations et crise de l'identite masculine
An Introduction toScientific Masculinities
The Scientific Life
"Medicine and Science as Masculine "Fields of Honor
The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |