Science and society in southern Africa

By: Saul Dubow (Editor), John M. MacKenzie (Editor)

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Paperback | 26 June 2009

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This collection, dealing with case studies drawn from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Mauritius, examines the relationship between scientific claims and practices, and the exercise of colonial power. 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.

Not only did science assist in bolstering aspects of colonial power and exploitation, it also possessed a significant ideological component: it offered a means of legitimating colonial authority by counter-poising Western rationality to native superstition and it served to enhance the self-image of colonial or settler elites in important respects. This innovative volume ranges broadly through topics such as statistics, medicine, eugenics, agriculture, entomology and botany. -- .

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‘‘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

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Non-Fiction Science Science in General Impact of Science & Technology on Society History Specific Events & Topics in History Colonialism & Imperialism Regional & National History African History Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

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Introduction
Field sciences in scientific fields: entomology, botany and the early ethnographic monograph in the work of H. A. Junod
Making canes credible in colonial Mauritius
A commonwealth of science: the British Association in South Africa, 1905 and 1929
"For the public benefit": livestock statistics and expertise in the late-nineteenth century Cape Colony
A mania for measurement: statistics and statecraft in the transition to apartheid
Police dogs and state rationality in early twentieth-century South Africa
The Race Welfare Society: eugenis and birth control in Johannesburg, 1930-1940
Doctors and the state: George Gale and South Africa's experiment in social medicine
Technical development and the human factor: sciences of development in Rhodesia's Native Affairs Department
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