ECO: What material constraints are said to undergird science and technology work in Africa?

Querying Science and Technology Studies in Africa

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Angela Okune's picture

August 7, 2018

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Edges of Exposure: Toxicology and the Problem of Capacity in Postcolonial Senegal

Lack of equipment, funding, government research support.

Angela Okune's picture

August 6, 2018

In response to:

Pollock, Anne. 2014. “Places of Pharmaceutical Knowledge-Making: Global Health, Postcolonial Science, and Hope in South African Drug Discovery.” Social Studies of Science 44 (6): 848–73.

History of mining and signs of its industrial past still physically visible.
same time zone as Europe (864).

Angela Okune's picture

August 6, 2018

In response to:

Tilley, Helen. 2010. “Global Histories, Vernacular Science, and African Genealogies; or, Is the History of Science Ready for the World?” Isis 101 (1): 110–19.

Not a core aspect of paper.

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