Jones-Imhotep, Edward Charles (Author)
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 24
Pages: 144--164
Publication date: 2009
Language: English
Edition Details: Volume title: “Science and National Identity: The Role of Science and Technology”
In the late 1940s, a group of Canadian ionospheric researchers used high-latitude atmospheric research to carve out influence and autonomy for themselves and the nation. Echoing a broader political project that cast the North as a source of Canadian autonomy and power in the postwar world, the group focused its research on the turbulent and anomalous ionosphere above Canada, which disrupted high-frequency communications throughout its northern regions. Those same conditions made ionograms, the key records of ionospheric research, illegible. This paper traces the attempts to demarginalize scientists, the nation, and its nature by remaking the practice of reading in ionospheric research.
...MoreArticle Harrison, Carol E.; Johnson, Ann (2009) Introduction: Science and National Identity. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 1).
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