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Second Call for Papers:
*The Mobility of Scientific Knowledge: Historical Case Studies*,
*Methodologies, and Conceptual Developments*.
*Call for Papers*: Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers
(AAG) Seattle, 12 – 16 April 2011
The session is sponsored by the Historical Geography Specialty Group.
Abstract due date: October 13, 2010
Organisers: Luise Fischer and Jochen F. Mayer (University of Edinburgh)
The geographies of science embrace an 'interdisciplinary' research field
bringing together geographers, historians, sociologists, and anthropologists
of science (Meusburger, Livingstone and Jöns 2010).
Apart from geography, the 'geographical turn' in science studies has been
promoted by various academic fields, including the history of science (e.g.,
Shapin 1995), sociological research on the circulation of ideas (e.g.
Castells 1996, Bourdieu 2002), and histoire croisée (Werner and Zimmermann
2006). Geographers have examined science as an activity 'grounded in space'
looking at its production, consumption, and modification in specific places,
and, lately, drawn attention to the mobilisation of knowledge between places
and spaces.
This session seeks to build on these two ideas: geographies of science as an
interdisciplinary research programme; and the role of knowledge flows.
Taking a transdisciplinary perspective and emphasising the interconnectivity
of situated and circulating scientific knowledges, this session will
scrutinise the interactions of places and flows in order to better
understand how knowledge became mobile and how the study of knowledge flows
informs the processes of knowledge making.
We invite papers which further advance the transdisciplinary debate in the
geographies of science by providing new empirical insights, or deploying new
methodological tools and theoretical concepts to better understand the
dialectic of localised and moving knowledges.
Papers are invited on a wide selection of themes across 18th to 20th
history, including but not limited to:
- The notions of trust and doubt and how they are linked to the travel
of knowledge either by enhancing or eroding credibility of scientific facts
over distance;
- The development of standards and classificatory schemes and their
circulation;
- Quantification and statistical coding as pre-conditions for
distribution of certain knowledge flows;
- The relationship between modern sciences and the state;
- The relationship between imperial and indigenous knowledges in their
specific settings.
If you are interested in participating, please submit your abstract of 250
words (incl. key words) to Jochen Mayer ([log in to unmask]) and Luise
Fischer ([log in to unmask]) by 13 October. Final decisions will be
announced by October 15.
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