Outposts of science: placing scientific infrastructures at the margins of French (post)colonial territories

IF 2.5 3区哲学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

Science As Culture Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI:10.1080/09505431.2024.2381002

David Dumoulin Kervran, Jérôme Lamy, Jan Verlin

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Abstract

Deserts, tropical forests, high mountains, and polar areas, have shaped the history of science. They serve not only as sites for field research and expeditions but also as territories where imperia...

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科学前哨：将科学基础设施置于法国（后）殖民地领土的边缘

沙漠、热带森林、高山和极地塑造了科学的历史。它们不仅是野外研究和探险的场所，也是帝国统治者的领地。

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期刊介绍： Our culture is a scientific one, defining what is natural and what is rational. Its values can be seen in what are sought out as facts and made as artefacts, what are designed as processes and products, and what are forged as weapons and filmed as wonders. In our daily experience, power is exercised through expertise, e.g. in science, technology and medicine. Science as Culture explores how all these shape the values which contend for influence over the wider society. Science mediates our cultural experience. It increasingly defines what it is to be a person, through genetics, medicine and information technology. Its values get embodied and naturalized in concepts, techniques, research priorities, gadgets and advertising. Many films, artworks and novels express popular concerns about these developments. In a society where icons of progress are drawn from science, technology and medicine, they are either celebrated or demonised. Often their progress is feared as ’unnatural’, while their critics are labelled ’irrational’. Public concerns are rebuffed by ostensibly value-neutral experts and positivist polemics. Yet the culture of science is open to study like any other culture. Cultural studies analyses the role of expertise throughout society. Many journals address the history, philosophy and social studies of science, its popularisation, and the public understanding of society.