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Postcolonial narratives of modern science in the making: the exchange of scientific knowledge between India and Europe (1700-1950)
Postkoloniale Beschreibungen der entstehenden modernen Wissenschaft: der Austausch wissenschaftlichen Wissens zwischen Indien und Europa (1700-1950)
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Körperschaftlicher Herausgeber
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS)
Abstract "Postcolonial theory of science professes to mark a departure in the way science and modernity in non-Western regions is either narrativised or discussed. This papertakes up the particular case of India, and proposes that over the last two and a half centuries three frames have historically been ava... mehr
"Postcolonial theory of science professes to mark a departure in the way science and modernity in non-Western regions is either narrativised or discussed. This papertakes up the particular case of India, and proposes that over the last two and a half centuries three frames have historically been available for the understanding of science and modernity. These broad historical frames are those of orientalism, nationalism and post-colonialism. Each of these in turn is marked by a multiplicity of investigative themes and theories. This paper specifically looks at historical writing on the subject of science and modernity in India, the historiographic and thematic variations and differences marking these broad frames. Further, it explores the continuities and relationships both in theme and theory between this multiplicity of theories of science and Indian modernity. For it becomes evident that what we have is a criss-crossing of genealogical lines across the three frames, rather than a distinct evolution along each of the registers of the triptych. Thus the nationalist discourse on science in India itself emerges out of different strands of Orientalist scholarship. Nationalist historiography of the pre-colonial period itself is fractured along several lines, though each of them shares the same theory of science. In the post-colonial accounts, which are themselves informed by the nationalist historiographie(s) of the previous periods, thisborder-crossing is complicated by the crumbling of the positivist theory of science and the emergence of embodied conceptions of science and scientific knowledge." (author's abstract)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Wissenschaft; Indien; Europa; Kolonie; Wissenstransfer; Asien; Südasien; Wissenschaftsgeschichte; Kolonialismus; Kolonisation; wissenschaftlicher Fortschritt; Entwicklungsland; Nationalismus; Wissen; Modernisierung
Klassifikation
Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung
Wissenschaftssoziologie, Wissenschaftsforschung, Technikforschung, Techniksoziologie
Methode
deskriptive Studie; historisch
Titel Sammelwerk, Herausgeber- oder Konferenzband
Soziale Ungleichheit, kulturelle Unterschiede: Verhandlungen des 32. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in München. Teilbd. 1 und 2
Herausgeber
Rehberg, Karl-Siegbert
Konferenz
32. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie "Soziale Ungleichheit - kulturelle Unterschiede". München, 2004
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2006
Verlag
Campus Verl.
Erscheinungsort
Frankfurt am Main
Seitenangabe
S. 4306-4315
ISBN
3-593-37887-6
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Lizenz
Deposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitung