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The Politics of Information: Libraries and Librarianship in the Western Cape, South Africa, 1930s--1960s
This study of libraries, literacy, and literature in the Western Cape addresses questions about the production, consumption, and politics of knowledge in South Africa from the 1930s through the 1960s. It argues that a culture of reading, which existed among blacks in the Western Cape since the …
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(Re)presenting Human Population Database Projects: virtually designing and siting biomedical informatics ventures
This dissertation examines the politics of representation in biotechnosciences. Through web representations, I examine three emerging endeavors that propose to create large-scale human population genomic databases to study complex, common diseases and conditions. These projects were initiated in …