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Colonial, Post-colonial, Settler, and Fascist Citizens: How to Resist the Master-Plan

The Workshop on Science, Technology, and Race (STAR)
WINTER 2017

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Colonial, Post-colonial, Settler, and Fascist Citizens: How to Resist the Master-Plan 

How did anti-colonial actors, colonial states, and post-colonial citizens understand the projects of “modernization” and “development” in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ? How was this particular, historically-specific form of scientific knowledge made, reproduced, and legitimated? The "Colonial and Postcolonial Planning and Counter-Planning” research project, based at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, brings together scholars seeking to understand the “master plans” of modernizing states as well as the resistant, critical, pragmatic and affective responses of citizens and anti-State activists.

The Workshop on Science, Technology, and Race (STAR), co-sponsored by the UC Irvine Humanities Commons, the Newkirk Center for Science and Society, and the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California, at UC Irvine, will host members of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) research group "Colonial and Postcolonial Planning and Counter-Planning” at Irvine on January 12, 2017. We invite you to a panel and discussion on MPIWG’s collaborative project: a “keywords” manual of planning terms that focuses on moments when such terms, with meanings and usages that are assumed to be fixed within the discipline of planning, have been resisted, revised, reevaluated and reinterpreted. Through case studies on Tanzania’s socialist period, colonial Belgian Congo, post-colonial India, Nazi Germany and settler-colonial Canada, we will discuss the role histories of planning, particularly in the post-colonial world, can play in expanding the scope and critical relevance of histories of science, technology, and knowledge. Additionally, we will reflect on the kinds of narratives that emerge when we rethink the relationship between theoretical concepts and grounded histories of materiality and practice. 

JANUARY 12, 2017 4 - 6 PM Humanities Gateway 1341

This event is organized by The Workshop on Science, Technology, and Race (STAR), co-sponsored by the UC Irvine Humanities Commons, the Newkirk Center for Science and Society, the Department of History, and the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California, at UC Irvine. All are welcome. For more information, or to co-sponsor future STAR events, please contact STAR Faculty Director Kavita Philip, kphilip@uci.edu. For Humanities Commons access and information, contact Angelica Enriquez <enriquea@uci.edu>