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A Commonwealth of Knowledge - Science, Sensibility, and White South Africa 1820-2000 (Hardcover, New)
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A Commonwealth of Knowledge - Science, Sensibility, and White South Africa 1820-2000 (Hardcover, New)
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A Commonwealth of Knowledge addresses the relationship between
social and scientific thought, colonial identity, and political
power in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. It hinges
on the tension between colonial knowledge, conceived of as a
universal, modernizing force, and its realization in the context of
a society divided along complex ethnic and racial fault-lines. By
means of detailed analysis of colonial cultures, literary and
scientific institutions, and expert historical thinking about South
Africa and its peoples, it demonstrates the ways in which the
cultivation of knowledge has served to support white political
ascendancy and claims to nationhood. In a sustained commentary on
modern South African historiography, the significance of `broad'
South Africanism - a political tradition designed to transcend
differences between white English- and Afrikaans-speakers - is
emphasized. A Commonwealth of Knowledge also engages with wider
comparative debates. These include the nature of imperial and
colonial knowledge systems; the role of intellectual ideas and
concepts in constituting ethnic, racial, and regional identities;
the dissemination of ideas between imperial metropole and colonial
periphery; the emergence of amateur and professional intellectual
communities; and the encounter between imperial and indigenous or
local knowledge systems. The book has broad scope. It opens with a
discussion of civic institutions (eg. museums, libraries, botanical
gardens and scientific societies), and assesses their role in
creating a distinctive sense of Cape colonial identity; the book
goes on to discuss the ways in which scientific and other forms of
knowledge contributed to the development of a capacious South
Africanist patriotism compatible with continued membership of the
British Commonwealth; it concludes with reflections on the
techno-nationalism of the apartheid state and situates contemporary
concerns like the `African Renaissance', and responses to HIV/AIDS,
in broad historical context.
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