کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1160301 1490330 2015 12 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Objective styles in northern field science
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
سبک های هدف در علوم پایه شمالی
کلمات کلیدی
علوم درست؛ سبک استدلال؛ علم میان فرهنگی؛ قیاس ناپذیری؛ همسایگی معرفتی؛ مطالعات علم پسااستعماری
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر تاریخ
چکیده انگلیسی


• Science studies often treat natural field sites as extensions of the laboratory.
• But field practices may differ substantially from laboratory practices.
• I address this difference in sociological terms, as a difference in style.
• A distinctive field style depends on what I call “epistemic neighbourliness.”
• Epistemic neighbourliness helps to explain the success of cross-cultural field science.

Social studies of science have often treated natural field sites as extensions of the laboratory. But this overlooks the unique specificities of field sites. While lab sites are usually private spaces with carefully controlled borders, field sites are more typically public spaces with fluid boundaries and diverse inhabitants. Field scientists must therefore often adapt their work to the demands and interests of local agents. I propose to address the difference between lab and field in sociological terms, as a difference in style. A field style treats epistemic alterity as a resource rather than an obstacle for objective knowledge production. A sociological stylistics of the field should thus explain how objective science can co-exist with radical conceptual difference. I discuss examples from the Canadian North, focussing on collaborations between state wildlife biologists and managers, on the one hand, and local Aboriginal Elders and hunters, on the other. I argue that a sociological stylistics of the field can help us to better understand how radically diverse agents may collaborate across cultures in the successful production of reliable natural knowledge.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A - Volume 52, August 2015, Pages 1–12
نویسندگان
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