Klemun, Marianne (Editor)
Spring, Ulrike (Editor)
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 2016
Language: English
Physical Details: 294 pages
This collection focuses on different expeditions and their role in the process of knowledge acquisition from the eighteenth century onwards. It investigates various forms of scientific practice conducted during, after and before expeditions, and it places this discussion into the scientific context of experiments. In treating expeditions as experiments in a heuristic sense, we also propose that the expedition is a variation on the laboratory in which different practices can be conducted and where the transformation of uncertain into certain knowledge is tested. The experimental positioning of the expedition brings together an ensemble of techniques, strategies, material agents and social actors, and illuminates the steps leading from observation to facts and documentation. The chapters show the variety of scientific interests that motivated expeditions with their focus on natural history, geology, ichthyology, botany, zoology, helminthology, speleology, physical anthropology, oceanography, meteorology and magnetism.
...MoreChapter Tanja Hammel (2016) Mary Barber’s Expedition Journal: An Experimental Space to Voice Social Concerns. In: Expeditions as Experiments: Practising Observation and Documentation (pp. 121-140).
Chapter Teresa Salomé Mota (2016) It Had to Be Us: Geological Practice, Scientific Authority and Politics in the Expedition to Goa (1960–1). In: Expeditions as Experiments: Practising Observation and Documentation (pp. 235-253).
Chapter Kurt Schmutzer (2016) Naturalists at Work: Expeditions, Collections and the Creation of “Epistemic Things”. In: Expeditions as Experiments: Practising Observation and Documentation (pp. 97-119).
Chapter Johannes Mattes (2016) Going Deeper Underground: Social Cooperation in Early Twentieth-Century Cave Expeditions. In: Expeditions as Experiments: Practising Observation and Documentation (pp. 163-186).
Chapter Marianne Klemun; Ulrike Spring (2016) Expeditions as Experiments: An Introduction. In: Expeditions as Experiments: Practising Observation and Documentation (pp. 1-25).
Chapter Jan Vandersmissen (2016) Experiments and Evolving Frameworks of Scientific Exploration: Jean-André Peyssonnel’s Work on Coral. In: Expeditions as Experiments: Practising Observation and Documentation (pp. 51-72).
Chapter Yuko Takigawa (2016) Japanese Ichthyological Objects and Knowledge Gained in Contact Zones by the Krusenstern Expedition. In: Expeditions as Experiments: Practising Observation and Documentation (pp. 73-96).
Chapter Alexandra Cook (2016) An Idea Ahead of Its Time: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Mobile Botanical Laboratory. In: Expeditions as Experiments: Practising Observation and Documentation (pp. 27-49).
Chapter Katarina Matiasek (2016) A Mutual Space? Stereo Photography on Viennese Anthropological Expeditions (1905–45). In: Expeditions as Experiments: Practising Observation and Documentation (pp. 187-212).
Chapter Ulrike Spring (2016) Materializing the Aurora Borealis: Carl Weyprecht and Scientific Documentation of the Arctic. In: Expeditions as Experiments: Practising Observation and Documentation (pp. 141-162).
Chapter Peder Roberts (2016) Traditions, Networks and Deep-Sea Expeditions After 1945. In: Expeditions as Experiments: Practising Observation and Documentation (pp. 213-234).
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