Net Werk voor de Geschiedenis van Hygiene en Milieu, 1999-2001 ...
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dominantie, controle <strong>en</strong> hiërarchie,<br />
aldus Mason, wer<strong>de</strong>n <strong>de</strong> grondwaar<strong>de</strong>n<br />
<strong>van</strong> <strong>de</strong> landbouwcultuur,<br />
wat aanleiding gaf tot het ontstaan<br />
<strong>van</strong> “the myth of human supremacy”.<br />
Behalve vervreemding <strong>van</strong><br />
<strong>de</strong> lev<strong>en</strong><strong>de</strong> natuur heeft het wereldbeeld<br />
dat uit <strong>de</strong> landbouwcultuur<br />
is <strong>voor</strong>tgevloeid ook <strong>de</strong> on<strong>de</strong>rdrukking<br />
bevor<strong>de</strong>rd <strong>van</strong> bepaal<strong>de</strong> sociale<br />
groep<strong>en</strong> die beschouwd wer<strong>de</strong>n als<br />
‘dichter bij <strong>de</strong> natuur staand’.<br />
Jim Mason is auteur <strong>van</strong> o.a. “An<br />
Unnatural Or<strong>de</strong>r: Uncovering the<br />
Roots of our Domination of Nature<br />
and Each other” (Simon & Schuster,<br />
1993 <strong>en</strong> Continuum Publ.,<br />
1997)<br />
Materializing Cultures:<br />
Sci<strong>en</strong>ce, Technology,<br />
and Medicine<br />
in Global Context<br />
mei 1998<br />
Afgelop<strong>en</strong> mei vond e<strong>en</strong> interdisciplinaire<br />
confer<strong>en</strong>tie plaats in Stanford<br />
met veel rele<strong>van</strong>te thema’s <strong>voor</strong><br />
<strong>de</strong> milieu- <strong>en</strong> hygiënegeschie<strong>de</strong>nis.<br />
Hier volgt e<strong>en</strong> pres<strong>en</strong>tatie.<br />
For the past four c<strong>en</strong>turies, technological,<br />
sci<strong>en</strong>tific, and medical<br />
practices have played an integral<br />
role in all manner of cultural <strong>en</strong>counters.<br />
The industrial and agricultural<br />
systems of the Fr<strong>en</strong>ch and<br />
British empires were continually<br />
subject to contestation and reshaping<br />
by colonized people. The spread<br />
and treatm<strong>en</strong>t of disease in these<br />
empires was accompanied by constant<br />
struggles over the <strong>de</strong>finition of<br />
personhood and power. Sci<strong>en</strong>tific<br />
knowledge, meanwhile, was a c<strong>en</strong>tral<br />
theme in negotiated repres<strong>en</strong>tations<br />
of ‘the West’ and<br />
‘Asia.’ Sci<strong>en</strong>ce, technology, and<br />
medicine are ev<strong>en</strong> more c<strong>en</strong>tral to<br />
cultural <strong>en</strong>counters in the post-colonial<br />
world, whether these <strong>en</strong>counters<br />
be structured around <strong>de</strong>velopm<strong>en</strong>t<br />
projects, the extraction of<br />
natural resources, or other forms of<br />
exchange.<br />
This confer<strong>en</strong>ce explores the myriad<br />
ways in which sci<strong>en</strong>ce, technology,<br />
and medicine both shape and are<br />
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contactblad <strong>van</strong> <strong>de</strong><br />
stichting net werk <strong>voor</strong> <strong>de</strong><br />
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geschie<strong>de</strong>nis <strong>van</strong> hygiëne <strong>en</strong> milieu<br />
redactie: myriam d a r u<br />
webversie: jan <strong>van</strong> <strong>de</strong>n n o o r t<br />
shaped in the course of cultural -<br />
and especially colonial - <strong>en</strong>counters.<br />
Six panels will explore the following<br />
themes:<br />
- the ways in which medical and<br />
technological practices simultaneously<br />
create boundaries betwe<strong>en</strong><br />
ethnic groups or nations, and<br />
function as means for the transgression<br />
of such boundaries<br />
- the dynamics betwe<strong>en</strong> the display<br />
value and the functionality of<br />
technologies in colonial contexts<br />
- how the t<strong>en</strong>sions betwe<strong>en</strong> the<br />
mo<strong>de</strong>rn material practices of colonizers<br />
and the local knowledge<br />
of colonized people are manifested<br />
in production processes<br />
- the ways in which translations,<br />
circulations, and exchanges of<br />
sci<strong>en</strong>ce and technology constitute<br />
the repres<strong>en</strong>tations through<br />
which the communities of ‘the<br />
West’ and ‘Asia’ are imagined<br />
- the ways in which sci<strong>en</strong>tific practices<br />
shape colonial and post-colonial<br />
notions of state and nation<br />
- how the spread and treatm<strong>en</strong>t of<br />
disease helps to constitute the<br />
complex processes of i<strong>de</strong>ntity formation<br />
in colonial contexts.<br />
http://shc.stanford.edu/shc/1997-<br />
1998/97-98workshops/empires.<br />
html or<br />
email spritch@leland.stanford.edu.<br />
Het thema <strong>van</strong> <strong>de</strong> confer<strong>en</strong>tie was<br />
nogal breed, maar e<strong>en</strong> aantal bijdrag<strong>en</strong><br />
was wel direct rele<strong>van</strong>t <strong>voor</strong> <strong>de</strong><br />
geschie<strong>de</strong>nis <strong>van</strong> hygiëne <strong>en</strong> milieu:<br />
Biology Recapitulates Ecology: Disease,<br />
Space, and Ethnic I<strong>de</strong>ntity<br />
in Late Imperial China Marta<br />
Hanson, University of California<br />
- San Diego<br />
The Big Project in Fr<strong>en</strong>ch Colonial<br />
Developm<strong>en</strong>t: Sci<strong>en</strong>ce and Authority<br />
in the Massive Irrigation<br />
Works of the Fr<strong>en</strong>ch Soudan,<br />
1918-46 Richard Roberts, Stanford<br />
University<br />
Transnational Sci<strong>en</strong>ce: Views of G<strong>en</strong>omics<br />
from Sites Outsi<strong>de</strong> Euro-<br />
America Joan Fujimura, Stanford<br />
University<br />
Big Sci<strong>en</strong>ce in India: Nation and<br />
Landscape Itty Abraham, Social<br />
Sci<strong>en</strong>ce Research Council<br />
Cookie-Cutter Epi<strong>de</strong>mics, CutOut<br />
Pati<strong>en</strong>ts The Reception of Laboratory<br />
Medicine in Hong Kong,<br />
Calcutta and Cape Town, 1894-<br />
1903 Molly Sutph<strong>en</strong>, University<br />
of California - San Francisco<br />
Bij e<strong>en</strong> <strong>de</strong>rgelijk ambitieuze opzet,<br />
blijft het <strong>de</strong> vraag of het lukt ver<strong>de</strong>r<br />
te kom<strong>en</strong> dan <strong>de</strong> disciplines naast<br />
elkaar te zett<strong>en</strong>. Bij elke sessie was<br />
e<strong>en</strong> comm<strong>en</strong>tator uitg<strong>en</strong>odigd.<br />
Maar of daarmee e<strong>en</strong> echte synthese<br />
ontstaan is zal blijk<strong>en</strong> wanneer <strong>de</strong><br />
proceedings verschijn<strong>en</strong>.<br />
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