Article ID: CBB001320195

Beyond Postcolonialism … and Postpositivism: Circulation and the Global History of Science (2013)

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Raj, Kapil (Author)


Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 104
Pages: 337-247


Publication Date: 2013
Edition Details: Part of a focus section: “Science, History, and Modern India”
Language: English

This essay traces the parallel, but unrelated, evolution of two sets of reactions to traditional idealist history of science in a world-historical context. While the scholars who fostered the postcolonial approach, in dealing with modern science in the non-West, espoused an idealist vision, they nevertheless stressed its political and ideological underpinnings and engaged with the question of its putative Western roots. The postidealist history of science developed its own vision with respect to the question of the global spread of modern science, paying little heed to postcolonial debates. It then proposes a historiographical approach developed in large part by historians of South Asian politics, economics, and science that, without compromising the preoccupations of each of the two groups, could help construct a mutually comprehensible and connected framework for the understanding of the global workings of the sciences.

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Authors & Contributors
Bhatti, Anil
Hülmbauer, Cornelia
Lieberman, Victor
Vahia, Mayank
Tilley, Helen
Sweeney, Dennis
Concepts
Historiography
Global history
History of science, as a discipline
Postcolonialism
Science and politics
Diffusion of innovation; diffusion of knowledge; diffusion of technology
Time Periods
Early modern
Modern
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
Places
Europe
Southeast Asia
Latin America
Russia
Germany
Asia
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