Overview
- Highlights the spatial and temporal complexity and contingency of past, present, and future interdisciplinary geographies of science
- Presents a balance of historical and contemporary case studies
Part of the book series: Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 3)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Comparative Approaches
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Mobilities and Centers
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Designing Knowledge Spaces
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Science and the Public
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About this book
This collection of essays aims to further the understanding of historical and contemporary geographies of science. It offers a fresh perspective on comparative approaches to scientific knowledge and practice as pursued by geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, and historians of science. The authors explore the formation and changing geographies of scientific centers from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries and critically discuss the designing of knowledge spaces in early museums, in modern laboratories, at world fairs, and in the periphery of contemporary science. They also analyze the interactions between science and the public in Victorian Britain, interwar Germany, and recent environmental policy debates. The book provides a genuine geographical perspective on the production and dissemination of knowledge and will thus be an important point of reference for those interested in the spatial relations of science and associated fields.
The Klaus Tschira Foundation supports diverse symposia, the essence of which is published in this Springer series (www.kts.villa-bosch.de).
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geographies of Science
Editors: Peter Meusburger, David Livingstone, Heike Jöns
Series Title: Knowledge and Space
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8611-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8610-5Published: 03 June 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3226-1Published: 05 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-8611-2Published: 14 June 2010
Series ISSN: 1877-9220
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0580
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 250
Topics: Geography, general, History of Science, Sociology, general