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eng - English
Datum:
2020-05-14
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Online veröffentlicht
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00:16 h
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Edna Bonhomme introduces her research approach and public engagement practices to students in a “guest-speaker” style video. Taking the form of a one-on-one video conversation rather than a strict lecture, Bonhomme explains how she traces epidemics, public health, and scientific practice in Alexandria, Tripoli and Tunis. The movement of disease through ports in North Africa and the Middle East shows how categories of disease and data collection are linked to postcolonial conceptualizations of health and power produce new bionic beings. Bonhomme also discusses the responsibility that historians have to reflect upon how knowledge was once represented and embodied in colonial and postcolonial contexts, especially with respect to race, gender, and class. Students can be invited to try out similar kinds of reflections about historical materials. Guided exploration of and experimentation with different ways to productively and responsibly draw upon history should help deepen understandings of the social and epistemological conditions that have underwritten human and more than human experiences today.
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