Shepherding Science & Technology Studies Beyond Matthew and Matilda

Rayvon Fouché

doi:10.1007/s11759-011-9162-z

Shepherding Science & Technology Studies Beyond Matthew and Matilda

Rayvon Fouché^*

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Abstract

From the perspective of a scholar invested in understanding how racial politics influence the ways technoscientific artifacts, practices, and knowledge continually reshapemultiple social configurations, I find Dr. Hofmänner's paper to be a welcome and important contribution. By moving beyond Robert K. Merton's Matthew Effect andMargaret W. Rossiter's Matilda Effect to interrogate the manner in which Western ways of thinking historically dominate flows of scientific knowledge production, Hofmänner'sessay shifts and refocuses the collective analytical lens of Science & Technology Studies to acknowledge and accept the roles that Africa-materially, conceptually, andmetaphorically-has played and will play in the production of regimes of scientific truth,authenticity, and expertise.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	295-297
Number of pages	3
Journal	Archaeologies
Volume	7
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11759-011-9162-z
State	Published - Apr 2011

Keywords

African Eve Effect
Anthropological dimension of science
Frontiers of science
Imaginative geographies
Reward systems of science

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Archaeology

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