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1. Shaping Natural History and Settler Society

Author

Hammel, Tanja

Subjects
History, Imperialism, Africa, Sub-Saharan—History, Gender identity, thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history, thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups, thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science
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This book explores the life and work of Mary Elizabeth Barber, a British-born settler scientist who lived in the Cape during the nineteenth century. It provides a lens into a range of subjects within the history of knowledge and science, gender and social history, postcolonial, critical heritage and archival studies. The book examines the international importance of the life and works of a marginalized scientist, the instrumentalisation of science to settlers' political concerns and reveals the pivotal but largely silenced contribution of indigenous African experts. Including a variety of material, visual and textual sources, this study explores how these artefacts are archived and displayed in museums and critically analyses their content and silences. The book traces Barber’s legacy across three continents in collections and archives, offering insights into the politics of memory and history-making. At the same time, it forges a nuanced argument, incorporating study of the North and South, the history of science and social history, and the past and the present.

Published
2019
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11. Introduction

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Hammel, Tanja, Drayton, Richard, Series Editor, Dubow, Saul, Series Editor, and Hammel, Tanja

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2019
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19. Examining African contributions to global health: Reflections on knowledge circulation and innovation.

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van Zyl-Hermann, Danelle, Hammel, Tanja, Burri, Christian, Chenal, Jérôme, Fink, Günther, Konou, Akuto Akpedze, Nébié, Eric, Osei Afriyie, Doris, Pessoa Colombo, Vitor, Utzinger, Jürg, and Tischler, Julia

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*KNOWLEDGE management, *HEALTH policy, *INSTITUTIONAL cooperation, *INTERDISCIPLINARY research, *INTERNATIONAL relations, *PUBLIC health administration, *HISTORICAL research, *AGRICULTURE, *WORLD health, *PUBLIC health, *MEDICAL care, *THEORY of knowledge, *HEALTH literacy, *URBAN health, *DRUG development, *FINANCIAL management, *DIFFUSION of innovations
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This article unites different disciplinary debates on 'southern innovation', 'theory from the South', and 'decolonisation of knowledge' in order to discuss existing understandings around the role of Africa in the production of health-related knowledge, public health policy, and medical innovation. Arguing that high-income countries have much to learn from the global South when it comes to health-related knowledge and practices, we propose an interdisciplinary research approach to uncovering and examining African contributions to global health, drawing on an ongoing collaborative project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. We present four empirical case studies concerning drug development, healthcare systems, and urban planning to critically enquire into both historical and contemporary transcontinental knowledge circulation and learning potentials, as much as cases of forgetting and silencing. On this basis, we argue that 'learning from the South' must mean more than transplanting quick and cheap technological fixes to serve societies in the global North, but rather recognising the vast contributions that Africans have made to global epistemologies, without losing sight of the asymmetries inherent in South–North knowledge exchanges. Lessons learned might apply to fields other than those discussed here and go far beyond 'reverse innovation'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2023
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23. Ehlers, Sarah: Europa und die Schlafkrankheit. Koloniale Seuchenbekämpfung, europäische Identitäten und moderne Medizin 1890–1950. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019. 377 S., Ill. (Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft, Bd. 232). € 59.99. ISBN 978-3-525-31068-7/Webel, Mari K.: The Politics of Disease Control. Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890–1920. Athens, Ohio University Press, 2019. 272 p. Ill. $ 34.95. ISBN 978-0-8214-2400-1 (e-book: 978-0-8214-4691-1)

Author

Hammel, Tanja, primary

Published
2020
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26. Shaping Natural History and Settler Society: Mary Elizabeth Barber and the Nineteenth-Century Cape

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Hammel, Tanja and Hammel, Tanja

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Explores the intertwined relationship between science, gender and settler colonialism in the nineteenth century. Reconstructs the neglected history of Mary Elizabeth Barber’s scientific work in South Africa, shining light on the work of an important woman naturalist. Contributes to growing research on the involvement of the South in global knowledge networks and the role of knowledge production in colonial dispossession

Published
2019

27. Reverse innovation in global health

Author

Zinsstag, Jakob, primary, Pelikan, Kristina, additional, Hammel, Tanja, additional, Tischler, Julia, additional, Flahault, Antoine, additional, Utzinger, Jürg, additional, and Probst-Hensch, Nicole, additional

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2019
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28. Ehlers, Sarah: Europa und die Schlafkrankheit. Koloniale Seuchenbekämpfung, europäische Identitäten und moderne Medizin 1890–1950. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019. 377 S., Ill. (Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft, Bd. 232). € 59.99. ISBN 978-3-525-31068-7/Webel, Mari K.: The Politics of Disease Control. Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890–1920. Athens, Ohio University Press, 2019. 272 p. Ill. $ 34.95. ISBN 978-0-8214-2400-1 (e-book: 978-0-8214-4691-1)

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Hammel, Tanja

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2020
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33. Research, Exhibitions and African History.

Author

Hammel, Tanja

Subjects
*AFRICAN history, *PHOTOGRAPHY archives, *DIGITIZATION of archival materials, *EXHIBITIONS, *CONFERENCES & conventions, *HISTORIOGRAPHY, SOUTH African history
Abstract

The article presents a report on a workshop on the use of exhibitions in narrating and writing African history, held in Basel, Switzerland, on October 25, 2014. Topics discussed included the life of naturalist Mary Elizabeth Barber, the history of Cape Town, South Africa, and a project to digitize the Photo Press Archives in Buea, Cameroon.

Published
2014

34. Globale Gesundheit: Afrikanische Innovationen.

Author

Hammel, Tanja and Seitzinger, Micha

Subjects
MEDICAL research, MEDICAL innovations, PUBLIC health, SCIENTISTS
Abstract

The article informs on an increase in conflict potential of "created ignorance" and "returned innovations" among African scientists when harnessing it in the Global North. It mentions that money flows unilaterally, that there are few equal partnerships between researchers from the Global South and North, and that contributions by African researchers are not published in reputable journals.

Published
2022

36. 2. Blumenworkshop.

Author

Hammel, Tanja

Subjects
*FLOWERS, *ROSES, *COLUMBINES in art, *GREATER celandine in art, *MEDIEVAL art, *FLOWERS -- Religious aspects, *CALVINISM, *SYMBOLISM, *CONFERENCES & conventions, *HISTORY
Abstract

The article presents a report on a workshop on flowers, held in Basel, Switzerland, from February 15-16, 2013. Topics of discussion included the rose as a symbol of English noble family of the Tudors, the representation of such plants as Aquilegia Vulgaris and Chelidonium majus in late medieval art, and the religious aspects of flowers in French Calvinism.

Published
2013

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