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Heike Jons
Heike
Jons
David N. Livingstone
David N.
Livingstone
Peter Meusburger
Peter
Meusburger
Interdisciplinary geographies of science
Loughborough University
2014
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Earth Sciences not elsewhere classified
2014-11-07 14:27:47
Chapter
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/chapter/Interdisciplinary_geographies_of_science/9486659
More than two decades into the “geographical” turn within science studies (Shapin, 1998, pp. 5–6), geographies of science are a vibrant interdisciplinary field of research. Based on exciting work by geographers, historians, sociologists, and anthropologists of science, the ideas that science has a geography and that scientific knowledge bears the marks of particular locations have themselves become accepted facts, at least within this community of scholars. Indeed, it can be argued that the meaning of scientific knowledge “takes shape in response to spatial forces at every scale of analysis—from the macropolitical geography of national regions to the microsocial geography of local cultures” (Livingstone, 2003, p. 4)....