Science, Africa and Europe: processing information and creating knowledge

by Harries, Patrick Lengwiler, Martin Penn, Nigel

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Full title :Science, Africa and Europe : processing information and creating knowledge / edited by Patrick Harries, Martin Lengwiler and Nigel Penn.

Summary

"Historically, scientists and experts have played a prominent role in shaping the relationship between Europe and Africa. Starting with travel writers and missionary intellectuals in the seventeenth century, European savants have engaged in the study of nature and society in Africa. Knowledge about realms of the world like Africa provided a foil against which Europeans came to view themselves as members of enlightened and modern civilizations. Science and technology also offered crucial tools with which to administer, represent and legitimate power relations in a new global world but the knowledge drawn from contacts with people in far-off places provided Europeans with information and ideas that contributed in everyday ways to the scientific revolution and that provided explorers with the intellectual and social capital needed to develop science into modern disciplines at home in the metropole. This book poses questions about the changing role of European science and expert knowledge from early colonial times to post-colonial times. How did science shape understanding of Africa in Europe and how was scientific knowledge shaped, adapted and redefined in African contexts?" ...

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2019

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge, Taylor et Francis Group
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 260 Seiten : : Illustrationen, Karten, Diagramme

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780815378310, 0815378319
oclc:on1082335722
LC Classification:Q175.52.A35
Dewey Decimal:509.4

Subjects

Africa Africa -- Intellectual life Africa -- Relations -- Europe Afrika Afrique -- Relations -- Europe Afrique -- Vie intellectuelle Aufsatzsammlung Europa Europe Europe -- Intellectual life Europe -- Relations -- Africa Europe -- Relations -- Afrique Europe -- Vie intellectuelle History Intellectual life international relations Knowledge, Theory of Knowledge, Theory of -- History. -- Afr… Knowledge, Theory of -- History. -- Eur… Science -- Social aspects