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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 17th
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 civilisations. 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?
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 17th
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 civilisations. 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?
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