Description:
- Advances new understandings of the materiality of colonial institutional life and governance.
- Follows scientists' and administrators' interests in innovating styles and tools for making and circulating documents, and in reshaping landscapes and environments.
Brief description:
Alexandra Widmer is an anthropologist who teaches at York University in Toronto. Situating the Pacific islands in a global context, her work focuses on colonial and post colonial dimensions of biomedicine, population thinking, reproduction and care.
Review Quotes:
"The chapters each offer a clearly delimited case study, most taking a narrow timeframe (a decade or two, six at most) and geographical focus. This allows them to illustrate how very specific sets of concerns shaped how distinctions were generated, and acted on, by scientific and administrative practices." - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)
"This volume contributes valuably to literature by showing how medical knowledge practices both shaped, and were shaped by, categories and images of social, cultural, sexual, and biological difference, and 'racial difference'." - Ricardo Roque, University of Lisbon