Counting corncrakes: The affective science of the UK corncrake census

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 377-405

  Lorimer, Jamie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affect; Corncrake; Field science; Framing; Hebrides; Skill

Indexed keywords

EID: 43949111659     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312707084396     Document Type: Article

References (97)

1. Agamben, Giorgio (2004) The Open: Man and Animal ( Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press ).
2. Alexander, Henry (1914) 'A Report on the Land-rail Enquiry', British Birds 8: 82-92.
3. Anderson, Ben (2006) 'Becoming and Being Hopeful: Towards a Theory of Affect', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 24: 733-52.
4. Ansell-Pearson, Keith (1999) Germinal Life: The Difference and Repetition of Deleuze ( London: Routledge ).
5. Atran, Scott (1990) Cognitive Foundations of Natural History: Towards an Anthropology of Science ( Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press ).
6. Baker, Steve (2000) The Postmodern Animal ( London: Reaktion Books ).
7. Bannerman, David (1953) The Birds of the British Isles ( Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd ).
8. Bauman, Zygmunt (1993) Postmodern Ethics ( Oxford: Blackwell ).
9. Bekoff, Marc (2002) Minding Animals: Awareness, Emotions, and Heart ( New York: Oxford University Press ).
10. Bennett, Jane (2001) The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics ( Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press ).
11. Bewick, Thomas (1797) A History of British Birds ( Newcastle: Sol Hodgson for Beilby and Bewick ).
12. Bonta, Mark (2005) 'Becoming-forest, Becoming-local: Transformations of a Protected Area in Honduras', Geoforum 36 (1). 95-112.
13. Bowker, Geoffrey (2000) 'Biodiversity Datadiversity', Social Studies of Science 30 (5). 643-83.
14. Braun, Bruce (2000) 'Producing Vertical Territory: Geology and Governmentality in Late Victorian Canada', Ecumene 7 (1). 7-46.
15. Cadbury, Charles (1980) 'The Status and Habitats of the Corncrake in Britain 1978-79', Bird Study 27: 203-18.
16. Callon, Michael (ed.) (1998) The Laws of the Markets ( Oxford, Blackwell Publishers ; Keele: Sociological Review ).
17. Caputo, John (1993) Against Ethics: Contributions to a Poetics of Obligation with Constant Reference to Deconstruction ( Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press ).
18. Clare, John (2004) ' The Landrail ', John Clare - Poems. The World's Poetry Archive < www.PoemHunter.com >.
19. Clarke, Thurston (2002) Islomania: A Journey Around the Last Real Islands ( London: Time Warner, Abacus ).
20. Connolly, William (1999) Why I Am Not A Secularist ( Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press ).
21. Cramp, Stanley (1980) Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa: The Birds of the Western Palaearctic, Vol. 11 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press ).
22. Deleuze, Gilles (1988) Spinoza: Practical Philosophy ( San Francisco, CA: City Lights ).
23. Deleuze, Gilles & Felix Guattari (1987) A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia ( London: Continuum ).
24. Demeritt, David (2001) 'Scientific Forest Conservation and the Statistical Picturing of Nature's Limits in the Progressive-era United States', Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 19 (4). 431-59.
25. Dewsbury J.D. & Simon Naylor (2002) 'Practising Geographical Knowledge: Fields, Bodies and Dissemination', Area 34 (3). 253-60.
26. Diprose, Rosalind (2002) Corporeal Generosity: On Giving with Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas ( Albany, NY: State University of New York Press ).
27. Fisher, G. (1963) ' The Park's Corn-crakes ', Reports of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland 51: 13-14.
28. Franklin, Adrian (2002) Nature and Social Theory (London & Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications ).
29. Fullagar, Simone (2000) 'Desiring Nature: Identity and Becoming in Narratives of Travel', Cultural Values 4 (1). 58-76.
30. Gilbert, Gillian, David Gibbons & Julianne Evans (eds) (1998) Bird Monitoring Methods ( Sandy, Beds.: RSPB ).
31. Goodwin, Charles (1994) ' Professional Vision ', American Anthropologist 96 (3). 606-33.
32. Goodwin, Charles (1995) ' Seeing in Depth ', Social Studies of Science 25 (2). 237-74.
33. Green, Rhys (1995) 'The Decline of the Corncrake (Crex crex) in Britain Continues', Bird Study 42: 66-75.
34. Green, Rhys (1996) 'Factors Affecting the Population Density of the Corncrake (Crex crex) in Britain and Ireland', Journal of Applied Ecology 33 (20). 237-48.
35. Green, Rhys & David Gibbons (2000) 'The Status of the Corncrake (Crex crex) in Britain in 1998', Bird Study 47: 129-37.
36. Green, Rhys, Glen Tyler, Tim Stowe & Anne Newton (1997) ' A Simulation Model of the Effect of Mowing of Agricultural Grassland on the Breeding Success of the Corncrake (Crex crex) ', Journal of Zoology 243: 81-115.
37. Greenhough, Beth (2006) 'Tales of an Island-laboratory: Defining the Field in Geography and Science Studies', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 31 (2). 224-37.
38. Hayles, N. Katherine (1995) ' Searching for Common Ground ', in M. Soule & G. Lease (eds), Reinventing Nature?: Responses to Postmodern Deconstruction (Washington, DC: Island Press). 45-60.
39. Henke, Christopher (2000) 'Making a Place for Science: The Field Trial', Social Studies of Science 30 (4). 483-511.
40. Heywood, V. & R. Watson (eds) (1995) Global Biodiversity Assessment ( Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press ).
41. Hinchliffe, Steve (2008) Reconstituting Nature Conservation: Towards a Careful Ecology'. Geoforum 39 (1). 88-97.
42. Hinchliffe, Steve, Monica Degan, Matt Kearnes & Sarah Whatmore (2005) ' Urban Wild Things: A Cosmopolitical Experiment ', Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 23: 643-58.
43. Hudson, A., Tim Stowe & S. Aspinall (1990) 'Status and Distribution of Corncrakes in Britain in 1988', British Birds 83: 173-87.
44. Hunter, James (1991) The Claim of Crofting: The Scottish Highlands and Islands, 1930-1990 ( Edinburgh: Mainstream ).
45. Ingold, Tim (2000) The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill ( London: Routledge ).
46. Jardine, Nicola, Joanna Secord & Elizabeth Spray (eds) (1996) Cultures of Natural History ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ).
47. Keller, Evelyn Fox (1983) A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock ( New York: Freeman and Company ).
48. Kohler, Robert (2002) Landscapes and Labscapes: Exploring the Lab-Field Border in Biology ( Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press ).
49. Kristeva, Julia (1982) Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection ( New York: Columbia University Press ).
50. Latour, Bruno (1993) We Have Never Been Modern ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press ).
51. Latour, Bruno (1995) 'The "Pdofil" of Boa Vista: A Photo-philosophical Montage', Common Knowledge 4 (1). 144-87.
52. Latour, Bruno (1999) Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press ).
53. Latour, Bruno (2004) 'How to Talk About the Body? The Normative Dimension of Science Studies', Body and Society 10 (2). 205-29.
54. Lorimer, Jamie (2006) 'What About the Nematodes? Taxonomic Partialities in the Scope of UK Biodiversity Conservation', Journal of Social and Cultural Geography 7 (4). 539-58.
55. Lorimer, Jamie (2007) ' Nonhuman Charisma ', Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 25 (5). 911-32.
56. Lynch, Michael (1985) 'Discipline and the Material Form of Image: An Analysis of Scientific Visibility', Social Studies of Science 15 (1). 37-66.
57. Lynch, Michael (1991) ' Method: Measurement - Ordinary and Scientific Measurement as Ethnomethodological Phenomena ', in G. Button (ed.), Ethnomethodology and the Human Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). 77-108.
58. Lynch, Michael & John Law (1999) 'Pictures, Texts, and Objects: The Literary Language Game of Birdwatching', in M. Biagioli (ed.), The Science Studies Reader (London: Routledge). 317-41.
59. MacDonald, Fraser (1998) 'Viewing Highland Scotland: Ideology, Representation and the "Natural Heritage"'. Area 30 (3). 237-44.
60. MacDonald, Helen (2002) '"What Makes You a Scientist is the Way You Look at Things": Ornithology and the Observer 1930-1955', Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 33: 53-77.
61. Mackenzie, Adrian (1998) '"The Cheviot, the Stag... And the White, White Rock?": Community, Identity, and Environmental Threat on the Isle of Harris', Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 16 (5). 509-32.
62. Martin, Aryn (2004) 'Can't Any Body Count? Counting as an Epistemic Theme in the History of Human Chromosomes', Social Studies of Science 34 (6). 923-48.
63. Mason, A. (1950) 'The Behaviour of Corn-crakes', British Birds 43: 70-78.
64. Massumi, Brian (1996) ' The Autonomy of Affect ', in P. Patton (ed.). Deleuze: A Critical Reader ( Oxford: Blackwell ).
65. Massumi, Brian (2000) 'Too-blue: Colour-patch for an Expanded Empiricism', Cultural Studies 14: 177-226.
66. May, Todd (2005) Deleuze: An Introduction ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ).
67. McCormack, Derek (2003) 'An Event of Geographical Ethics in Spaces of Affect', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 28: 488-507.
68. Metcalfe, Andrew (2000) ' Wonder, Creativity and Knowledge ', Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 1 (3). available at < www.jcrt.org/archives/ 01.3/metcalfe.shtml >.
69. Milton, Kay (2002) Loving Nature: Towards an Ecology of Emotion (London and New York: Routledge ).
70. Mitchell, Ian (1999) Isles of the West: A Hebridean Voyage ( Edinburgh: Canongate ).
71. Norris, Charles (1945) 'Report on the Corncrake', British Birds 38: 142-68.
72. Norris, Charles (1947) 'Report on the Distribution and Status of the Corncrake', British Birds 40: 226-44.
73. Patton, Paul (2003) ' Language, Power, and the Training of Horses ', in C. Wolfe (ed.), in Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press). 83-99.
74. Radley, Alan (1995) 'The Elusory Body and Social Constructivist Theory', Body and Society 1 (2). 3-23.
75. Robbins, Paul (2001) 'Fixed Categories in a Portable Landscape: The Causes and Consequences of Land-cover Categorization', Environment and Planning A 33 (1). 161-79.
76. Roth, Wolff-Michael & G. Michael Bowen (1999) ' Digitizing Lizards: The Topology of "Vision" in Ecological Fieldwork ', Social Studies of Science 29 (5). 719-64.
77. Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (2003) Corncrake Newsletter and Initiative Report 2002/2003 ( Sandy, Beds.: RSPB ).
78. Stengers, Isabelle (1997) Power and Invention: Situating Science ( Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press ).
79. Stowe, Tim & Anne Hudson (1988) 'Corncrake Studies in the Western Isles', RSPB Conservation Review 2: 38-42.
80. Stowe, Tim & Anne Hudson (1991) 'Radio-telemetry Studies of Corncrake in Great Britain', Die Vogelwelte 112: 10-16.
81. Terry, A.M.R. & P.K. McGregor (2002) 'Census and Monitoring Based on Individually Identifiable Vocalizations: The Role of Neural Networks', Animal Conservation 5: 103-11.
82. Thrift, Nigel (1999) ' Steps to an Ecology of Place ', in D. Massey et al. (eds), Human Geography Today (London: Polity). 295-322.
83. Thrift, Nigel (2000) ' Afterwords ', Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 18 (2). 213-55.
84. Thrift, Nigel (2004 a) 'Summoning Life', in P. Cloke, M. Goodwin & P. Crang (eds), Envisioning Human Geographies (Arnold: London). 81-103.
85. Thrift, Nigel (2004 b) ' Intensities of Feeling: Towards a Spatial Politics of Affect ', Geografiska Annaler: Series B 86: 57-78.
86. Thrift, Nigel (2005) 'From Born to Made: Technology, Biology and Space', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 30 (4). 463-76.
87. Thrift, Nigel & J.D. Dewsbury (2000) 'Dead Geographies - and How to Make Them Live', Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 18 (4). 411-32.
88. Tyler, Glen & Rhys Green (1996) 'The Incidence of Nocturnal Song by Male Corncrakes (Crex crex) is Reduced During Pairing', Bird Study 43: 214-19.
89. Tyler, Glen, Rhys Green & C. Casey (1998) 'Survival and Behaviour of Corncrake (Crex crex) Chicks During the Mowing of Agricultural Grassland', Bird Study 45: 35-50.
90. Ukbap (1994) Biodiversity: The UK Action Plan (London: HM Stationery Office). available at: http://www.ukbap.org.uk/Library/Plan_Lo.pdf
91. Von Uexkull, Jacob (1957) ' A Stroll through the Worlds of Animals and Men ', in C. Schiller (ed.). Instinctive Behavior ( New York: International Universities Press ).
92. Waterton, Clare (2002) 'From Field to Fantasy: Classifying Nature, Constructing Europe', Social Studies of Science 32 (2). 177-204.
93. Waterton, Clare (2003) 'Performing the Classification of Nature', Sociological Review 52: 111-29.
94. Waterton, Clare & Rebecca Ellis (2004) ' Amateurs as Experts: Observing the Emergence of a New Biodiversity Collective '. Paper given at the 4S/EASST conference, Paris (25-28 August).
95. Whatmore, Sarah (2002) Hybrid Geographies: Natures, Cultures, Spaces ( London: Sage Publications ).
96. Whatmore, Sarah & Lorraine Thorne (2000) 'Elephants on the Move: Spatial Formations of Wildlife Exchange', Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 18 (2). 185-203.
97. White, Gilbert (1900 [1789]) The Natural History and Antiquities of Selbourne ( London: John Lane ).