Zero-point hubris : science, race, and enlightenment in eighteenth-century Latin America
Santiago Castro-Gómez
Bok · Engelsk · 2021
| Originaltittel | [ Hybris del punto cero .] Engelsk
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| Omfang | 312 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | Introduction -- Places of enlightenment : colonial discourse and the geopolitics of knowledge in the Age of Enlightenment -- Purus ab omnia Macula Sanguinis : the apparatus of whiteness in New Granada -- Imperial biopolitics : health and disease under the Bourbon reforms -- Illegitimate knowledges : the Enlightenment as apparatus of epistemic expropriation -- Striated spaces : geography, territorial politics, and population control -- Epilogue.. - "Castro-Gómez argues that in the colonial periphery of the Spanish Americas, Enlightenment constituted not only the position of epistemic distance separating science from all other knowledges, but also the position of ethnic distance separating the criollos from the 'castes'. Epistemic violence-and not only physical violence-is thereby found at the very origin of Colombian nationality"--
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| ISBN | 9781786613769. - 9781786613776
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