Invisible Labour in Modern Science (eBook)

Jenny Bangham, Xan Chacko, Judith Kaplan (Herausgeber)

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2022
354 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-5996-5 (ISBN)

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Invisible Labour in Modern Science is about the people who are concealed, eclipsed, or anonymised in accounts of scientific research. Many scientific workersincluding translators, activists, archivists, technicians, curators, and ethics review boardsare absent in publications and omitted from stories of discovery. Scientific reports are often held to ideals of transparency, yet they are the result of careful judgments about what (and what not) to reveal. Professional scientists are often celebrated, yet they are expected to uphold principles of ';objective' self-denial. The emerging and leading scholars writing in this book negotiate such silences and omissions to reveal how invisibilities have shaped twentieth and twenty-first century science. Invisibility can be unjust; it can also be powerful. What is invisible to whom, and when does this matter? How do power structures built on hierarchies of race, gender, class and nation frame what can be seen? And for those observing science: When does the recovery of the ';invisible' serve social justice and when does it invade privacy? Tackling head-on the silences and dilemmas that can haunt historians, this book transforms invisibility into a guide for exploring the moral sensibilities and politics of science and its history.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.9.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Global Epistemics
• Co-Autor: Elena Aronova, Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes, Boris Jardine, Judith Kaplan, Lara Keuck, Whitney Laemmli, Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Lan A. Li, M. Susan Lindee, Stuart McCook, Alexandra Noi, Jenny Bangham, Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra, Joanna Radin, Julia E. Rodriguez, Omnia El Shakry, Michaela Spencer, Laura Stark, Mihai Surdu, Sandra Widmer, Caitlin Wylie, Sarah Blacker, Margaret Bruchac, Elise Burton, Xan Chacko, Susannah Chapman, Sabine Clarke, Rosanna Dent
• Zusatzinfo: 19 Illustrations including: - 19 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: archives • Discrimination • Feminism • Feminist Science Studies • Gender • history of data • history of knowledge • history of medicine • Human subjects • indigeneity • indigenous studies • International Relations • Library science • Politics • Race • Racism • Science • Sexism • Social Class • Standpoint • women in science • womens studies
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-5996-1 / 1538159961
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-5996-5 / 9781538159965