To Boldly Go: The History of Frontier Sciences

3-0-9 units · Graduate

<p class="Paragraph SCXW123588953 BCX2">Traces the construction of frontiers in the history of colonial and postcolonial sciences. Explores the concept of the frontier as an environmental site for knowledge production at imperial borders and a conceptual framework that links progress, expansion, and transgression. Reviews historical production of continental frontiers during the age of empire, discourses in the philosophy of science concerning frontier technology, and how the frontier has pivoted to spaces like the deep ocean and the internet in the postcolonial era. Analyzes the politics of knowledge production in alternative understandings of in-between spaces, including horizons and borderlands.