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

这篇STS学位论文改进赠款是对殖民背景下的一种医学成像技术的研究。它历史上追溯了视觉文化的概念，因为它们不仅是由殖民行政人员开发的，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用来使殖民主义的社会技术工作中的关系合法化和稳定。这项研究通过概述视觉文化在L的《西方非洲法语》(AOF)中建立放射网络的作用，展示了这场认识论辩论的政治利害关系。它认为，射线照相技术，包括其构成的“代表性倾向”，被用来谈判医学图像翻译员的职业合法性，并巩固他们作为殖民和后殖民西非政治行为者的角色。这项研究挑战了视觉文化在科学技术研究中的使用(S和TS)来解释共识，并重新审视了技术在殖民主义中的作用。NSF基金支持塞内加尔、象牙海岸和马里的档案和年鉴工作。

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.