Article ID: CBB001022552

Postcolonial and Feminist Philosophies of Science and Technology: Convergences and Dissonances (2009)

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Harding, Sandra G. (Author)


Postcolonial Studies
Volume: 12
Pages: 401--421


Publication Date: 2009
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Science, Colonialism, and the Postcolonial”
Language: English

Feminist and postcolonial studies of science and technology should be overtly in coalition with each other. After all, they claim accountability to overlapping groups of peoples. Women constitute half of the colonized and ex-colonized; a majority of the world's women were colonized or are subject to contemporary neocolonialism. Moreover, the discourses of colonialism and androcentrism are deeply locked into each other. The colonized have been conceptualized as not fully as masculine as Western men, while women are conceptualized as on the periphery of, or even outside, the social orders of interest to androcentric researchers and scholars. Thus each needs the success of the other kind of STS for its own successes. Yet these two fields of STS largely take different kinds of social relations to be the relevant ones, different kinds of sciences to be important, and they propose different model agents to transform science and technology policies and practices in intellectually and politically progressive ways. Fortunately, promising exceptions to these charges are underway. Moreover, feminist and postcolonial STS provide distinctive resources to remedy the epistemological underdevelopment shared in significant respects by much of 'mainstream' STS and the familiar Enlightenment ideals it criticizes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Authors & Contributors
Harding, Sandra G.
Pauwels, Lieven
De Tiège, Alexis
Tanghe, Koen B.
Tilley, Helen
Sturm, Thomas
Concepts
Historiography
Philosophy of science
Science studies, theoretical works
Postcolonialism
Historical method
Colonialism
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
Early modern
21st century
19th century
18th century
Places
East Asia
Netherlands
Latin America
Africa
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