R MacLeod’s scientific contributions

... Whenever historians of science have looked beyond these spaces, they have remained mostly interested in science in 'expedition-exploration mode' (Heggie, 2014) or in field work and 'collecting science' (Kohler, 2007) -neglecting permanent scientific places 'elsewhere,' especially in remote locations. This article thus sheds light on scientific places at the margins of the overseas territories inherited from France's colonial empire, and thereby contributes to the literature on how the power of industrialised European societies, their modes of governability and even scientific modernity itself, are often rooted in remote (post)colonial scientific experiments (MacLeod, 2000). ...

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Outposts of science: placing scientific infrastructures at the margins of French (post)colonial territories