Placing performance

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Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 775-778

  Morus, Iwan Rhys ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

HISTORY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SCIENCE; SOCIOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY;

HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SCIENCE; SOCIOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

EID: 79952011414     PISSN: 00211753     EISSN: 15456994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/657476     Document Type: Review

References (15)

1. Steven Shapin, "Discipline and Bounding: The History and Sociology of Science as Seen through the Externalism-Internalism Debate," History of Science, 1992, 30:333-369.
2. Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1985).
3. Steven Shapin, A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England (Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 1994).
4. Bruno Latour, Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society (Milton Keynes: Open Univ. Press, 1987) - though I am not sure that Latour would recognize or approve of my paraphrase.
5. Steven Shapin and Christopher Lawrence, eds., Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge (Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 1998).
6. Simon Schaffer, "Natural Philosophy and Public Spectacle in the Eighteenth Century," Hist. Sci., 1983, 21:1-43;
7. and Schaffer, "The Consuming Flame: Electrical Showmen and Public Spectacle in Eighteenth-Century England," in Consumption and the World of Goods, ed. John Brewer and Roy Porter (London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 489-526.
8. Iwan Rhys Morus, "Different Experimental Lives: Michael Faraday and William Sturgeon," Hist. Sci., 1992, 30:1-28.
9. Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (New York: Doubleday, 1959).
10. Heinz Otto Sibum, "Reworking the Mechanical Value of Heat: Instruments of Precision and Gestures of Accuracy in Early Victorian England," Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 1995, 26:73-106;
11. and Peter Heering, "The Enlightened Microscope: Re-enactment and Analysis of Projections with Eighteenth-Century Solar Microscopes," British Journal for the History of Science, 2008, 41:345-367.
12. The focus on performances dovetails neatly with the recent historical concern with the spatiality of science. See David Livingstone, Putting Science in Its Place: Geographies of Scientific Knowledge (Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 2003).
13. Roger Cooter and Stephen Pumfrey, "Separate Spheres and Public Places: Reflections on the History of Science Popularization and Science in Popular Culture," Hist. Sci., 1994, 32:237-267.
14. Mario Biagioli, Galileo, Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism (Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 1994).
15. James A. Secord, "Knowledge in Transit," Isis, 2004, 95:654-672.