Parachemistries: Colonial chemopolitics in a zone of contest.

Autor/in	Mukharji, Projit Bihari
Titel	Parachemistries: Colonial chemopolitics in a zone of contest.
Quelle	In: History of science, (2016) 4, S.362-382 PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2); PDF als Volltext (3) Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0073-2753
DOI	10.1177/0073275316681803
Schlagwörter	Colonialism; Chemistry; British Empire; Practical objectivity; Chymistry; Bengal; Globalization; Neidan; Alchemy; Rasayana; Kimiya; India
Abstract	The globalization of modern chemistry through European colonialism resulted, by the end of the nineteenth century, in the emergence of a number of parachemical knowledges. Parachemistries were bodies of non-European knowledge which came to be related to modern chemistry within particular historical milieux. Their relationship with modern chemistry was not necessarily epistemic and structural, but historical and performative. Actual historically located intellectuals posited their relationship. Such relationships were not merely abstract intellectual exercises; at a time when the practical uses of modern chemistry in statecraft were growing, the existence of these rival, competing parachemical knowledges challenged modern chemistry’s regulatory deployments. Colonial locations emerged then not as mere ‘contact zones’, but as ‘zones of conflict’ where colonial chemopolitics was interrupted by the continued legitimacy and practice of parachemistries such as rasayana, kimiya, and neidan.
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Update	2023/3/07