[STS-Africa] Teaching and States of the Field

[Diana Gibson]

Thanks Helen,
I look forward to reading your work
Regards
Diana

On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 6:36 PM, Prof JC Holbrook <astroholbrook at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Helen,
>
> I, & others, keep copies of my articles on Academia.edu. I couldn't find
> an STS-Africa tag/group but maybe you could start one? Also, I started
> following you.
>
> Best,
>
> Jarita
> On 1/10/19 2:24 PM, Helen Tilley wrote:
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> Laura Foster and Tolu Odumosu’s call for papers yesterday reminded me that
> I wanted to reach out asking if there’s a site anywhere that pools syllabi
> relating to STS-Africa (including history) on various themes. I’m also
> interested in review articles that set new research priorities for the
> field.
>
> Along these lines, I thought I’d share a piece I wrote last summer and
> that went live in November on “The History and Historiography of Science”
> for *Oxford’s Encyclopedia of African History*.
>
> I’ll add that when I was invited to prepare this, other authors, including
> Clapperton Mavhunga, had been solicited to write their own review essays on
> technology (and medicine) so while I touch on some technological (and
> medical) themes, I left a lot of this literature to one side (including
> citations because I assumed these authors would cite their own work).
> That’s the peril of disciplinary sub-divisions :-)
>
> But caveats aside, here’s the link to the online version and a pdf of the
> piece is attached below.
>
>
> http://oxfordre.com/africanhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277734-e-353
>
> I’m sure many on this list have written terrific review essays and it
> might benefit us all to pool this information somewhere for ourselves and
> our students.
>
> All best wishes for the New Year!
> Helen
>
>
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