Making the Modern World: Science, Education and Social-Ecological Engineering in Rural Southern Africa

创造现代世界：南部非洲农村地区的科学、教育和社会生态工程

• 批准号: 168577062
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Norbert Finzsch
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Rhodes University
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2009-12-31 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/168577062?language=en
• 关键词: Making; Modern; World; Science; Education

The historical project C1 researches into social-ecological systems from the angle of knowledge, asking how humans conceptualised their relations to society and environment. Throughout the twentieth century, South Africa saw a variety of drastic state measures to actively shape human-environment relations under the banner of ‘modernisation’. This process went hand in hand with a growing scientification of state intervention into both nature and society, which looked at white and black humanenvironment relations in an increasingly segregated way. Focussing on two specific fields of rural ‘modernisation’ – agricultural knowledge and education (ca. 1902-1994) and betterment schemes (1960s/70s) – C1 explores how knowledge and ‘experts’ featured in the growing industrialisation and commercialisation of agriculture and the increasing emphasis on ‘separate development’.

历史项目C1从知识的角度研究社会生态系统，询问人类如何概念化他们与社会和环境的关系。在整个20世纪，南非在“现代化”的旗帜下，采取了各种激烈的国家措施，积极塑造人与环境的关系。这一过程与国家干预自然和社会的日益科学化密切相关，这种干预以一种日益隔离的方式看待白人和黑人的人类环境关系。集中在农村“现代化”的两个具体领域-农业知识和教育（约1902-1994年）和改善计划（20世纪60年代/70年代）- C1探讨了知识和“专家”如何在农业日益增长的工业化和商业化中发挥作用，并日益强调“单独发展”。