The Mobile Workshop The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production

• Hoofdauteur: Mavhunga, Clapperton Chakanetsa (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Cambridge The MIT Press 2018
• Reeks: The MIT Press
• Onderwerpen: African history; Impact of science & technology on society; History of engineering & technology; 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
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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...