Zero-point hubris : science, race, and enlightenment in eighteenth-century Latin America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Castro-Gómez, Santiago, 1958- (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
Series:	Reinventing critical theory
Subjects:	Ethnology > Colombia > History. Enlightenment > Colombia > History. Science > Colombia > History. Race discrimination > Colombia > History. Colombia > Intellectual life. Colombia > Civilization. Colombia > Social life and customs. Civilization. Enlightenment. Ethnology. Intellectual life. Manners and customs. Race discrimination. Science. Colombia. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction
Places of enlightenment : colonial discourse and the geopolitics of knowledge in the Age of Enlightenment
Purus ab omnia Macula Sanguinis : the apparatus of whiteness in New Granada
Imperial biopolitics : health and disease under the Bourbon reforms
Illegitimate knowledges : the Enlightenment as apparatus of epistemic expropriation
Striated spaces : geography, territorial politics, and population control
Epilogue.