The Mobile Workshop
How the presence of the tsetse fly turned the African forest into an open laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse control policies. The tsetse fly is a pan-African insect that bites an infective forest animal and ingests blood filled with invisible parasites, which it...
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| description | How the presence of the tsetse fly turned the African forest into an open laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse control policies. The tsetse fly is a pan-African insect that bites an infective forest animal and ingests blood filled with invisible parasites, which it carries and transmits into cattle and people as it bites them, leading to n'gana (animal trypanosomiasis) and sleeping sickness. In The Mobile Workshop, Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga examines how the presence of the tsetse fly turned the forests of Zimbabwe and southern Africa into an open laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse control policies. He traces the pestiferous work that an indefatigable, mobile insect does through its movements, and the work done by humans to control it. Mavhunga's account restores the central role not just of African labor but of African intellect in the production of knowledge about the tsetse fly. He describes how European colonizers built on and beyond this knowledge toward destructive and toxic methods, including cutting down entire forests, forced “prophylactic” resettlement, massive destruction of wild animals, and extensive spraying of organochlorine pesticides. Throughout, Mavhunga uses African terms to describe the African experience, taking vernacular concepts as starting points in writing a narrative of ruzivo (knowledge) rather than viewing Africa through foreign keywords. The tsetse fly became a site of knowledge production—a mobile workshop of pestilence. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-785532024-04-02T22:11:55Z The Mobile Workshop Mavhunga, Clapperton Chakanetsa tsetse fly Zimbabwe culture Blood Mobilities mobility of knowledge mobility studies Africa studies global south colonial studies Pests Dehumanization thingification environmental studies environmentalism De-Intellectualization Chepfu Knowledge knowledge production Eugenics colonialism racism imperialism Bantu Studies African Studies Africans as objects of study Négritude Self-reintellectualization Trypanosomiasis parasitization attractant studies Gomarara cancer Chemoprophylaxis Glossina chidzimbahwe vedzimbahwe ndedzi mhesvamukono Mhesvi Vachena Vatema Hutachiwana thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science and technology on society thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology How the presence of the tsetse fly turned the African forest into an open laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse control policies. The tsetse fly is a pan-African insect that bites an infective forest animal and ingests blood filled with invisible parasites, which it carries and transmits into cattle and people as it bites them, leading to n'gana (animal trypanosomiasis) and sleeping sickness. In The Mobile Workshop, Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga examines how the presence of the tsetse fly turned the forests of Zimbabwe and southern Africa into an open laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse control policies. He traces the pestiferous work that an indefatigable, mobile insect does through its movements, and the work done by humans to control it. Mavhunga's account restores the central role not just of African labor but of African intellect in the production of knowledge about the tsetse fly. He describes how European colonizers built on and beyond this knowledge toward destructive and toxic methods, including cutting down entire forests, forced “prophylactic” resettlement, massive destruction of wild animals, and extensive spraying of organochlorine pesticides. Throughout, Mavhunga uses African terms to describe the African experience, taking vernacular concepts as starting points in writing a narrative of ruzivo (knowledge) rather than viewing Africa through foreign keywords. The tsetse fly became a site of knowledge production—a mobile workshop of pestilence. 2022-02-21T15:11:33Z 2022-02-21T15:11:33Z 2018 book ONIX_20220221_9780262345859_73 9780262345859 9780262535021 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78553 eng The MIT Press image/jpeg n/a https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/10492.001.0001 The MIT Press The MIT Press 10.7551/mitpress/10492.001.0001 10.7551/mitpress/10492.001.0001 ae0cf962-f685-4933-93d1-916defa5123d 9780262345859 9780262535021 The MIT Press 430 Cambridge open access |
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