Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives
From climate change to global pandemics, some of the most vexing questions facing postcolonial societies are entangled with the contradictory role of science in postcolonial contexts. Science is connected to histories of colonial oppression but also to promises of improvement and emancipation; it ma...
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| description | From climate change to global pandemics, some of the most vexing questions facing postcolonial societies are entangled with the contradictory role of science in postcolonial contexts. Science is connected to histories of colonial oppression but also to promises of improvement and emancipation; it may be the cause of environmental degradation but also its remedy. This volume engages with the cultural imagination of science and problematises the role of narrative at the intersection of culture and the sciences. Bridging postcolonial studies, literature and science studies, and other traditions, the contributors examine cultural narratives as well as texts from 19th-century utopianism to postcolonial 'science novels' and contemporary science fiction. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1701832026-02-10T05:09:47Z Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives Kirchhofer, Anton Levihn-Kutzler, Karsten Postcolonial literature Postcolonial science and technology studies Literature and science studies Postcolonial science novel Science in fiction thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000::DSBH5 Literary studies: postcolonial literature thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC7 Cross-cultural / Intercultural studies and topics From climate change to global pandemics, some of the most vexing questions facing postcolonial societies are entangled with the contradictory role of science in postcolonial contexts. Science is connected to histories of colonial oppression but also to promises of improvement and emancipation; it may be the cause of environmental degradation but also its remedy. This volume engages with the cultural imagination of science and problematises the role of narrative at the intersection of culture and the sciences. Bridging postcolonial studies, literature and science studies, and other traditions, the contributors examine cultural narratives as well as texts from 19th-century utopianism to postcolonial 'science novels' and contemporary science fiction. Vom Klimawandel bis zu globalen Pandemien – die widersprüchliche Rolle der Naturwissenschaft in postkolonialen Kontexten betrifft einige der drängendsten Fragen, mit denen sich postkoloniale Gesellschaften konfrontiert sehen. Naturwissenschaften sind Teil der Geschichte kolonialer Unterdrückung, aber auch mit der Hoffnung auf Fortschritt und Emanzipation verbunden; sie können zur Zerstörung, aber auch zur Erhaltung der Umwelt beitragen. Dieser Band befasst sich mit der kulturellen Imagination der Wissenschaft und problematisiert die Rolle von Narrativen an den Schnittstellen von Naturwissenschaften und Kultur. In einem Brückenschlag zwischen postkolonialen Studien, Literature and Science Studies und verwandten kritischen Traditionen untersuchen die Beiträge kulturelle Narrative und literarische Texte von Utopien des 19. Jahrhunderts über postkoloniale Wissenschaftsromane bis hin zu zeitgenössischer Science Fiction. 2025-12-16T05:12:22Z 2025-12-16T05:12:22Z 2025-12-15T14:18:24Z 2025 book ONIX_20251215T151540_9783968221946_8 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/109119 9783968221946 9783968221939 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/170183 eng Anglophone Postcolonial Studies open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/109119/1/9783968221946.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/109119/1/9783968221946.pdf Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP) heiUP 10.17885/heiup.1126 10.17885/heiup.1126 83eb0236-463a-4213-8a0f-dc16011f70aa 9783968221946 9783968221939 heiUP 311 Heidelberg open access |
| spellingShingle | Postcolonial literature Postcolonial science and technology studies Literature and science studies Postcolonial science novel Science in fiction thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000::DSBH5 Literary studies: postcolonial literature thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC7 Cross-cultural / Intercultural studies and topics Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives |
| title | Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives |
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| title_sort | science culture and postcolonial narratives |
| topic | Postcolonial literature Postcolonial science and technology studies Literature and science studies Postcolonial science novel Science in fiction thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000::DSBH5 Literary studies: postcolonial literature thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC7 Cross-cultural / Intercultural studies and topics |
| topic_facet | Postcolonial literature Postcolonial science and technology studies Literature and science studies Postcolonial science novel Science in fiction thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000::DSBH5 Literary studies: postcolonial literature thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC7 Cross-cultural / Intercultural studies and topics |
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