What Do Science, Technology, And Innovation Mean From Africa

ISBN: 9780262533904 出版年：2017 页码：257 Mavhunga The MIT Press

In the STI literature, africa has often been regarded as a recipient of science, technology, and innovation rather than a maker of them. In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines show that STI in africa is not merely the product of “technology transfer” from elsewhere but the working of african knowledge. Their contributions focus on african ways of looking, meaning-making, and creating. The chapter authors see africans as intellectual agents whose perspectives constitute authoritative knowledge and whose strategic deployment of both endogenous and inbound things represents an african-centered notion of STI. “things do not (always) mean the same from everywhere,” observes clapperton chakanetsa mavhunga, the volume’s editor. Western, colonialist definitions of STI are not universalizable.