Development as experiment: Science and state building in late colonial and postcolonial Africa, 1930-1970

被引:109
作者
Bonneuil, C [1 ]
机构
[1] CNRS, Ctr Koyre Hist Sci & Tech, Paris, France
关键词
D O I
10.1086/649330
中图分类号
N09 [自然科学史]; B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号
01 ; 0101 ; 010108 ; 060207 ; 060305 ; 0712 ;
摘要
This paper explores the continuous role that science has played in the establishment of a colonial and post-colonial "development regime" in Africa. Examining development schemes that flourished between 1930 and 1970, the paper shows how African agrarian societies became objects of both state intervention and expert knowledge. In pursuing large scale social engineering and social experiments, these schemes constituted a particular-coionial?-way of managing the African environment and of crafting knowledge on African societies. In constructing development ideologies and practices in the late colonial and post independence periods, they also played an important part in the construction of the African state. Their approaches shaped the future of tropical medicine, agriculture, and development studies. Ironically, they also created the preconditions for later interest in the values of indigenous knowledge.
引用
收藏
页码:258 / 281
页数:24
相关论文
共 90 条
[1]  
ADAS M, 1997, TECHNOL CULT, V38, P478
[2]  
AMARA HA, 1989, AGR AFRICAINE CRISE
[3]  
[Anonymous], MALAWI ALTERNATIVE P
[4]  
[Anonymous], 1976, Perspectives on the Emergence of Scientific Disciplines
[5]  
[Anonymous], AFRICAN EC HIST
[6]  
[Anonymous], 1985, INDIGENOUS AGR REVOL
[7]  
[Anonymous], 1997, HIST EPISTEMIC THING
[8]  
[Anonymous], 1944, AFRIQUE TERRE QUI ME
[9]  
[Anonymous], RELATIONS INT
[10]  
[Anonymous], 1981, POLITIQUE AFRICAINE