Introduction: Toward an Urban History of Science

Dierig, Sven; Lachmund, Jens; Mendelsohn, J. Andrew

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“…It serves as more than a mere setting for action. 93 The individual and commercial reception of these representations of space was influenced by the acquisition of authority through localized, situated practices.…”

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Constructing cartographic authority: the conceptualization and mapping of urban spaces in Edinburgh, c. 1880 – c. 1920

Feintuck

2018

Urban History

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This article examines how, in the production and use of cartographic items, urban space and local knowledge were brought together to construct authoritative representations of place. Its approach is twofold. The first half of the article is an examination of the mapmakers John Bartholomew & Co.’s changing premises across Edinburgh, which shows that the firm carefully curated their business properties in order to convey credibility and gain trust. The article then introduces the London-based firm Charles E. Goad Ltd, producers of fire insurance plans, and considers their acquisition of urban information and their use of local knowledge from a distance to achieve similar aims. Both cases illustrate the importance of close attention to geography and the spatial dimensions of knowledge construction.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Constructing cartographic authority: the conceptualization and mapping of urban spaces in Edinburgh, c. 1880 – c. 1920

Feintuck

2018

Urban History

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“…Its benefactor, George Matthews, made the gift on discovering that funds for the new school were drying up and in the knowledge that pupils would be admitted according to 'liberal principles and moderate terms'. 9 What is noteworthy here, beyond a local story of cooperation and interest in science at Belfast's leading Catholic school and seminary, is that it was natural philosophy more than 7 other branches of science that was given prominent support. Across Europe, natural philosophy had long been established in Catholic educational institutions as a respected subject area and, within Ireland, chairs of natural philosophy had earlier been established in Catholic seminaries at Maynooth, Kilkenny and Carlow.…”

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Catholics, science and civic culture in Victorian Belfast

Finnegan¹,

Wright²

2014

Br J Hist Sci

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Abstract. The connections between science and civic culture in the Victorian period have been extensively, and intensively, investigated over the past several decades. Limited attention, however, has been paid to Irish urban contexts. Roman Catholic attitudes towards science in the nineteenth century have also been neglected beyond a rather restricted set of thinkers and topics. This paper is offered as a contribution to addressing these lacunae, and examines in detail the complexities involved in Catholic engagement with science in Victorian Belfast. The political and civic geographies of Catholic involvement in scientific discussions in a divided town are uncovered through an examination of five episodes in the unfolding history of Belfast's intellectual culture. The paper stresses the importance of attending to the particularities of local politics and scientific debate for understanding the complex realities of Catholic appropriations of science in a period and urban context profoundly shaped by competing political and religious factions. It also reflects more generally on how the Belfast story supplements and challenges scholarship on the historical relations between Catholicism and science.There is now a well-established body of scholarship addressing the interaction of science and urban culture in nineteenth-century Britain. Pioneering work in this field, by scholars such as Arnold Thackray and Ian Inkster, explored the thesis that science was a useful resource for 'marginal men' intent on securing social status in contexts where opportunities to engage in formal politics were significantly curtailed. This work underlined the productive links between science and Protestant dissent, particularly of a heterodox kind. 1 Subsequent studies have demonstrated the ways in which other groups, both within and outside established civic elites, developed and deployed science to serve a range of social and political interests. For example, Michael Neve examined the utilization of science by Bristol's commercial elite to consolidate their Peelite conservatism and Adrian Desmond uncovered the use that Owenite and atheist artisans made of Lamarckian evolution in early nineteenth-century London to buttress radical anti-establishment politics. In the wake of these and other studies, James Secord's

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“…Consequently, "the organization of scientific work and its place in the social order have been under negotiation and construction for centuries, and there is every reason to expect this to continue" (Hackett et al 2017, 734). organization of life in cities, the business sector, and the civil sphere (Dierig, Lachmund, and Mendelsohn 2010;Hackett et al 2017). Hence, Yachay should also be read against the long history of ongoing negotiations in Ecuador between educational institutions, the state, political organizations and the sciences.…”

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The intersections between infrastructures and expectations: repair and breakdown in Yachay, the city of knowledge in Ecuador

Gómez-Urrego

2019

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society

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This paper explores the temporalities of infrastructuring, breakdown, and repair/disrepair interacting generativelymaterially and symbolicallyin "Yachay, the city of knowledge," the most ambitious and controversial public infrastructural project in Ecuador's history. I analyze the roles of expectations, and the infrastructural dynamics in the process of shaping Yachay during its intragovernmental scaling-up from a technical university to a city of knowledge; and during the material implementation of some of its basic physical infrastructure. I also highlight the embeddedness of the expectations in particular pasts and historical trajectories, thus extending the common use of expectations as only oriented to the future. The argument presented here draws on fieldwork conducted in Yachay for 14 months between 2016 and 2018.

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Introduction: Toward an Urban History of Science

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Constructing cartographic authority: the conceptualization and mapping of urban spaces in Edinburgh, c. 1880 – c. 1920

Constructing cartographic authority: the conceptualization and mapping of urban spaces in Edinburgh, c. 1880 – c. 1920

Catholics, science and civic culture in Victorian Belfast

The intersections between infrastructures and expectations: repair and breakdown in Yachay, the city of knowledge in Ecuador

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