Dissertation Research: The Machine 'qui permet a voir a l'interieur': Inventing Visual Culture in Colonial and Postcolonial Senegal

论文研究：机器“qui permet a voir a linterieur”：在塞内加尔殖民和后殖民时期发明视觉文化

• 批准号: 0135537
• 负责人: Ronald Kline
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-01-01 至 2004-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0135537&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Machine; qui; permet

This STS Dissertation Improvement Grant is a study of a medical imaging technology in the colonial context. It historically traces notions of visual culture as they were developed not only by colonial administrators but also by users of radiographic technology. The idea of visual culture itself was developed and used to legitimize and stabilize relationships in colonialism's socio-technical work. The study shows what the political stakes of this epistemological debate were by outlining the role of visual culture in establishing a radiographic network in l'Afrique Occidentale Francaise (AOF). It argues that radiographic technology, including its constituent discourse of "representational tendencies," was used to negotiate the professional legitimacy of medical image interpreters and solidify their role as political actors in colonial and postcolonial West Africa. This study challenges the use of visual culture in Science and Technology Studies (S&TS) to explain consensus and reexamines the role of technology in colonialism. NSF funds support archival and enthnographic work in Senegal, the Ivory Coast and Mali.

这个STS论文改进补助金是在殖民地背景下的医学成像技术的研究。它从历史上追溯了视觉文化的概念，因为它们不仅是由殖民地管理者开发的，也是由射线照相技术的用户开发的。视觉文化本身的概念被发展并用于合法化和稳定殖民主义社会技术工作中的关系。这项研究表明，这种认识论辩论的政治利害关系是通过概述视觉文化的作用，在建立一个放射性网络在l'Afrique Occupentale Francaise（AOF）。它认为，射线照相技术，包括其组成话语的“代表性倾向”，被用来谈判的专业合法性的医学图像解释和巩固他们的作用，作为政治行为体在殖民和后殖民西非。本研究挑战了视觉文化在科学技术研究（S TS）中的使用，以解释共识，并重新审视技术在殖民主义中的作用。 国家科学基金会的资金支持塞内加尔、象牙海岸和马里的档案和人类志工作。