Creativity from the Periphery
Trading Zones of Scientific Exchange in Colonial India
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Creativity from the Periphery
Trading Zones of Scientific Exchange in Colonial India
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Science is usually knownbyits most successful figures and resource-rich institutions. In stark contrast, Creativity from the Peripherydraws our attention to unknown figures in scienceâthose who remain marginalized, even neglected, within its practices. Researchers in early twentieth-century colonial India, for example, have made significant contributions to the stock of scientific knowledge and have provided science with new breakthroughs and novel ideas, but to little acclaim. As Deepanwita Dasgupta argues, sometimes the best ideas in science are born from difficult and resource-poor conditions. Inthis study, she turns our attention to these peripheral actors, shedding new light on how scientific creativity operates in lesser-known, marginalized contexts, and how the work of self-trained researchers, though largely ignored, has contributed to important conceptual shifts. Her book presents a new philosophical framework for understanding this peripheral creativity in science through the lens of trading zonesâwhere knowledge is exchanged between two unequal communitiesâand explores the implications for the future diversity of transnational science.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. The Theoretical Framework
- Part II. Four Case Studies in Peripheral Science
- Epilogue. Final Reflections
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index