NANO: (How) is “Africa” invoked when the author discusses data (as a place with unique demands or responsibilities, for example)?

Querying Science and Technology Studies in Africa

August 7, 2018

In response to:

Sittert, Lance van. 2013. “Gabrielle Hecht. Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade.” The American Historical Review 118 (5): 1481–83.

Lance van Sittert implies that Hecht assumped that because this was Africa, no archive would exist. This is in line with broader discourse about "no data in Africa" as noted elsewhere.

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NANO: (How) is “Africa” invoked when the author discusses data (as a place with unique demands or responsibilities, for example)?

Sittert, Lance van. 2013. “Gabrielle Hecht. Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade.” The American Historical Review 118 (5): 1481–83.