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SUMMARY:'Ecological reconnaissance': expert visitors to Northern Rhodesia 
 in the 1950s - Lawrence Dritsas (University of Edinburgh)
DTSTART:20071112T130000Z
DTEND:20071112T141500Z
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CONTACT:Salim Al-Gailani
DESCRIPTION:During the 1950s scientists working for the Northern Rhodesian
  government invited expert scientists to visit the territory and provide a
 dvice on both research agenda and environmental policies. The paper addres
 ses the problem of how scientific knowledge\, in this case ecological know
 ledge\, was constructed through these brief visits. Tracking the fate of t
 he visitors' research findings reveals the political power of both consult
 ant and 'staff' scientists in late-colonial contexts and the variable stat
 us of scientific knowledge within the spaces of the British Commonwealth. 
 The paper also examines the role of travel in making scientific knowledge 
 and travel as scientific knowledge.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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