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The Mobile Workshop : The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production

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Title:
The Mobile Workshop : The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production
Author: Mavhunga, Clapperton Chakanetsa
Subjects: Africa ; Africa studies ; African history ; African Studies ; Africans as objects of study ; attractant studies ; Bantu Studies ; Blood ; cancer ; Chemoprophylaxis ; Chepfu ; chidzimbahwe ; colonial studies ; colonialism ; De-Intellectualization ; Dehumanization ; environmental studies ; environmentalism ; Eugenics ; global south ; Glossina ; Gomarara ; History ; History and Archaeology ; History of engineering and technology ; History of Science ; History of Technology ; Hutachiwana ; Impact of science and technology on society ; imperialism ; Indigenous peoples ; Knowledge ; Knowledge management ; knowledge production ; Mathematics and Science ; mhesvamukono ; Mhesvi ; Mobilities ; mobility of knowledge ; mobility studies ; ndedzi ; Négritude ; parasitization ; Pests ; Philosophy & Social Aspects ; racism ; Science ; Science, Technology & Society ; Science: general issues ; Self-reintellectualization ; Social Aspects ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes ; Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR ; thingification ; Traditional ecological knowledge ; Trypanosomiasis ; tsetse fly ; Tsetse-flies ; Vachena ; Vatema ; vedzimbahwe ; Zimbabwe culture
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.
Related Titles: The MIT Press
Publisher: Cambridge: The MIT Press
Creation Date: 2018
Format: 430
Language: English
Identifier: ISBN: 9780262535021
ISBN: 0262535025
ISBN: 9780262345859
ISBN: 0262345854
EISBN: 9780262345859
EISBN: 0262345854
EISBN: 9780262345866
EISBN: 0262345862
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10492.001.0001
OCLC: 1042473242
Source: MIT Press Direct OA
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