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Author : William Beinart,Saul Dubow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108837088
An innovative three hundred year exploration of the social and political contexts of science and the scientific imagination in South Africa.
Author : David Trippett,Benjamin Walton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107111257
Explores the rich and varied interactions between nineteenth-century science and the world of opera for the first time.
Author : Zamanzima Mazibuko
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780639986692
Nanotechnology is sweeping the world. This science of very small particles, which includes genetic modification and the reconfiguring of the arrangement of atoms, presents possibilities beyond imagination. It also has huge implications for all South Africans, especially at home. How exactly is this new technology playing out in South Africa? In countries like India, nanotechnology is being supported as a source of income and innovation. It has the potential to improve both the human condition and a countrys productivity and competitiveness. Is South Africa doing what it should and could to foster nanotechnology and biotechnology, and to advance bioeconomies within the country? And what does the new technology mean for us as consumers? How many of us know that this technology is already being employed in substances like suntan cream and lipstick, with potential health implications for users? The application of nanotechnology poses risks as well as huge benefits, so we need to be particularly vigilant of the ethics and dangers of it. This book provokes discussion around these important topics and relays eyeopening information to those of us who thought all of this was sci-fi.
Author : Saul Dubow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 052147907X
A study of the history of intellectual and scientific racism in modern South Africa.
Author : Paul S. Gray,John B. Williamson,David A. Karp,John R. Dalphin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139467025
The idea that science is a blueprint for research, and imagination gives research its life and purpose inspired this comprehensive explanation of research methodology. The authors' decades of experience have revealed that research is a craft requiring judgment and creativity, not simply memorization and application of the rules of science. Whether one is conducting an intimate one-on-one interview or a large-scale examination of an entire society, human imagination and scientific principles of inquiry go hand in hand. To that end, this book emphasizes scientific method, but also acknowledges its critics. It covers a wide variety of data-collection techniques, but presents them as reinforcing rather than competing with one another, thus striking a balance between qualitative and quantitative methods. It is designed for students and instructors who want a comprehensive treatment of a variety of research techniques with special emphasis on qualitative approaches.
Author : Weingart, Peter,Joubert, Marina,Facade, Bankole
Publisher : African Minds
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781928502036
Why do we need to communicate science? Is science, with its highly specialised language and its arcane methods, too distant to be understood by the public? Is it really possible for citizens to participate meaningfully in scientific research projects and debate? Should scientists be mandated to engage with the public to facilitate better understanding of science? How can they best communicate their special knowledge to be intelligible? These and a plethora of related questions are being raised by researchers and politicians alike as they have become convinced that science and society need to draw nearer to one another. Once the persuasion took hold that science should open up to the public and these questions were raised, it became clear that coming up with satisfactory answers would be a complex challenge. The inaccessibility of scientific language and methods, due to ever increasing specialisation, is at the base of its very success. Thus, translating specialised knowledge to become understandable, interesting and relevant to various publics creates particular perils. This is exacerbated by the ongoing disruption of the public discourse through the digitisation of communication platforms. For example, the availability of medical knowledge on the internet and the immense opportunities to inform oneself about health risks via social media are undermined by the manipulable nature of this technology that does not allow its users to distinguish between credible content and misinformation. In countries around the world, scientists, policy-makers and the public have high hopes for science communication: that it may elevate its populations educationally, that it may raise the level of sound decision-making for people in their daily lives, and that it may contribute to innovation and economic well-being. This collection of current reflections gives an insight into the issues that have to be addressed by research to reach these noble goals, for South Africa and by South Africans in particular.
Author : Gerald James Holton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:661063899
Author : Martin Mahony,Samuel Randalls
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822987550
As global temperatures rise under the forcing hand of humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions, new questions are being asked of how societies make sense of their weather, of the cultural values, which are afforded to climate, and of how environmental futures are imagined, feared, predicted, and remade. Weather, Climate, and Geographical Imagination contributes to this conversation by bringing together a range of voices from history of science, historical geography, and environmental history, each speaking to a set of questions about the role of space and place in the production, circulation, reception, and application of knowledges about weather and climate. The volume develops the concept of “geographical imagination” to address the intersecting forces of scientific knowledge, cultural politics, bodily experience, and spatial imaginaries, which shape the history of knowledges about climate.
Author : Karen ní Mheallaigh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108483032
This is a book for readers who are fascinated by the Moon and the earliest speculations about life on other worlds. It takes the reader on a journey from the earliest Greek poetry, philosophy and science, through Plutarch's mystical doctrines to the thrilling lunar adventures of Lucian of Samosata.
Author : Martin J. Bayly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107118058
A new perspective on empire, international relations and foreign policy through attention to British colonial knowledge on Afghanistan from 1808 to 1878.
Author : Annie E. Coombes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300068905
Between 1890 and 1918, British colonial expansion in Africa led to the removal of many African artifacts that were subsequently brought to Britain and displayed. Annie Coombes argues that this activity had profound repercussions for the construction of a national identity within Britain itself--the effects of which are still with us today. Through a series of detailed case studies, Coombes analyzes the popular and scientific knowledge of Africa which shaped a diverse public's perception of that continent: the looting and display of the Benin "bronzes" from Nigeria; ethnographic museums; the mass spectacle of large-scale international and missionary exhibitions and colonial exhibitions such as the "Stanley and African" of 1890; together with the critical reaction to such events in British national newspapers, the radical and humanitarian press and the West African press. Coombes argues that although endlessly reiterated racial stereotypes were disseminated through popular images of all things "African," this was no simple reproduction of imperial ideology. There were a number of different and sometimes conflicting representations of Africa and of what it was to be African--representations that varied according to political, institutional, and disciplinary pressures. The professionalization of anthropology over this period played a crucial role in the popularization of contradictory ideas about African culture to a mass public. Pioneering in its research, this book offers valuable insights for art and design historians, historians of imperialism and anthropology, anthropologists, and museologists.
Author : Marie-Hélène Huet
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674586514
What woeful maternal fancy produced such a monster? This was once the question asked when a deformed infant was born. From classical antiquity through to the Enlightenment, the monstrous child bore witness to the fearsome power of the mother's imagination. What such a notion meant and how it reappeared, transformed, in the Romantic period are the questions explored in this book, a study of theories linking imagination, art and monstrous progeny.
Author : Sheila Jasanoff,Sang-hyun Kim
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226276663
Dreamscapes of Modernity offers the first book-length treatment of sociotechnical imaginaries, a concept originated by Sheila Jasanoff and developed in close collaboration with Sang-Hyun Kim to describe how visions of scientific and technological progress carry with them implicit ideas about public purposes, collective futures, and the common good. The book presents a mix of case studies—including nuclear power in Austria, Chinese rice biotechnology, Korean stem cell research, the Indonesian Internet, US bioethics, global health, and more—to illustrate how the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries can lead to more sophisticated understandings of the national and transnational politics of science and technology. A theoretical introduction sets the stage for the contributors’ wide-ranging analyses, and a conclusion gathers and synthesizes their collective findings. The book marks a major theoretical advance for a concept that has been rapidly taken up across the social sciences and promises to become central to scholarship in science and technology studies.
Author : Barbara Celarent
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226433967
In July 2009, the American Journal of Sociology (AJS) began publishing book reviews by an individual writing as Barbara Celarent, professor of particularity at the University of Atlantis. Mysterious in origin, Celarent’s essays taken together provide a broad introduction to social thinking. Through the close reading of important texts, Celarent’s short, informative, and analytic essays engaged with long traditions of social thought across the globe—from India, Brazil, and China to South Africa, Turkey, and Peru. . . and occasionally the United States and Europe. Sociologist and AJS editor Andrew Abbott edited the Celarent essays, and in Varieties of Social Imagination, he brings the work together for the first time. Previously available only in the journal, the thirty-six meditations found here allow readers not only to engage more deeply with a diversity of thinkers from the past, but to imagine more fully a sociology—and a broader social science—for the future.
Author : John Parker,Richard (Honorary Professor of History Rathbone, University of Aberystwyth),Richard Rathbone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192802484
Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.