Locating Science, Locating Salmon: Institutions, Linkages, and Spatial Practices in Early British Columbia Fisheries Science

Evenden, Matthew

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“…First, political ecology explores how environmental issues, dynamics and conditions are products and drivers of political processes that reinforce the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ rooted in societal struggles manifested at multiple scales (Robbins, 2004; Roth, 2015; Perreault et al, 2015). Animals feature as topics of study (often by scholars self-identifying as both animal geographers and political ecologists), including animal/fish husbandry (Bassett, 1988; Lien, 2005; Turner, 2004), agriculture (Emel and Neo, 2011, 2015; Evenden, 2004; Hovorka, 2006), biodiversity conservation and wildlife conflict (Barua, 2014b; Campbell, 2007; Collard, 2012; DeMotts and Hoon, 2012; Goldman et al, 2013; Goldman, 2009; Lunstrum, 2014; Neumann, 1992, Sundberg, 2011), and animal commodification (Collard, 2014; Collard and Dempsey, 2013). Yet political ecology is largely anthropocentric with animals as backgrounded, incidental, static or material things (Emel and Neo, 2015; Hobson, 2007; Srinivasan, 2016).…”

Section: Animal Hybridity: Opportunities In Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Animal geographies II

Hovorka

2017

Progress in Human Geography

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Hybridizing animal geographies scholarship encourages creative conversations among geography sub-disciplines and generates holistic knowledge of human-animal relations. This article surveys existing trends in ‘hybridity’ as a foundational concept emerging from animal geographies primarily located within human realms of geography. Fully operationalizing hybridity requires affective engagements with animals through interdisciplinary investigations of animal agency, behaviours and experiences. To this end, this article explores how animal research in geography may benefit from further extension into human-environment geographies, physical geographies and geomatics to capitalize on hybridity as both concept and practice.

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Section: Animal Hybridity: Opportunities In Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Animal geographies II

Hovorka

2017

Progress in Human Geography

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“…These ‘translations’ are the displacements in meaning and objective that result from the inevitable compromise among disparate interests. Within geography, various authors have illustrated the utility of actor–network and science studies' perspectives (Murdoch 1994; deLaet 2000; Barnes 2001; Winder 2001; Evenden 2004). Actor–network theory and translation also have particular reference to the practice of patenting and the detours that engineers are forced to take to authorize their inventions.…”

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Codification, patents and the geography of knowledge transfer in the electronic musical instrument industry

Reiffenstein

2006

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Recent research in economic geography has emphasized tacit knowledge as the basis of industrial learning. In contrast, codification and the practices of industrial writing have received little attention for the roles they play in mobilizing knowledge across space. This paper offers insight into the geographies of codification through an examination of technology transfer in the electronic musical instrument industry between 1965 and 1995. The research draws on a variety of primary and secondary data that include interviews with inventors, biographical accounts and patent analysis. These sources offer perspective on the career trajectories of three U.S. inventors who transferred knowledge from various contexts in California's high‐tech industry to the Japanese firm, Yamaha. Conceptually, the paper draws on the actor–network theory and Latour's idea of translation to highlight the detours inventors must take to register novelty. The analysis reveals the problematic nature of codified knowledge and its transfer; in this case codified knowledge was mobile internationally but not locally, at least until it reached Japan. The paper argues for the need to understand how texts such as patents are produced—the context of their authorship, the geographies of their circulation and their efficacy for shaping further innovative practice.

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“…For example, a special issue of JHB published in 2012 explored the relationships between place and scientific practice in North America, with regard to (for example) the geography of research stations (Vetter 2012), conservation of biological significant locales (Alagona 2012, Rumore 2012, and the geographic dimensions of scientific controversy (Bocking 2012). Other work has focused on the collection and transport of biological materials (Evenden 2004, Hung 2016, especially in relation to colonial activity (Schiebinger and Swan 2005). The core intuition of the spatial turn is that cultural contingency entails geographical contingency: science is shaped by the places in which it is practiced and received (Withers 2009), and thus our understanding of science is greatly expanded by considering a broader array of geo-social contexts.…”

Section: Geographymentioning

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Quantitative Perspectives on Fifty Years of the Journal of the History of Biology

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Abstract. Journal of the History of Biology provides a fifty-year long record for examining the evolution of the history of biology as a scholarly discipline. In this paper, we present a new dataset and preliminary quantitative analysis of the thematic content of JHB from the perspectives of geography, organisms, and thematic fields. The geographic diversity of authors whose work appears in JHB has increased steadily since 1968, but the geographic coverage of the content of JHB articles remains strongly lopsided toward the United States, United Kingdom, and western Europe and has diversified much less dramatically over time. The taxonomic diversity of organisms discussed in JHB increased steadily between 1968 and the late 1990s but declined in later years, mirroring broader patterns of diversification previously reported in the biomedical research literature. Finally, we used a combination of topic modeling and nonlinear dimensionality reduction techniques to develop a model of multi-article fields within JHB. We found evidence for directional changes in the representation of fields on multiple scales. The diversity of JHB with regard to the representation of thematic fields has increased overall, with most of that diversification occurring in recent years. Drawing on the dataset generated in the course of this analysis, as well as web services in the emerging digital history and philosophy of science ecosystem, we have developed an interactive web platform for exploring the content of JHB, and we provide a brief overview of the platform in this article. As a whole, the data and analyses presented here provide a starting-place for further critical reflection on the evolution of the history of biology over the past half-century. IntroductionIn a scathing 1990 review, the late historian of science John Farley complained that, "from its first twoissue volume in 1968, through its increase to three issues per year in 1982, until today, Journal of the History of Biology has provided an outlet for the self-perpetuating oligarchy of Darwin scholars" (Farley, 1990). "Is this healthy, I wonder?" Farley went on, "Has the profession now reached such a size that the members can afford to speak only to each other?". Farley enumerated a variety of themes and fields that, in his view, had been chronically underserved in the pages of JHB, including oceanography, ethology, botany, anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, bacteriology, and others. Worse, Farley seemed to suggest that JHB had nearly missed the social turn in the history of science, remaining fixated on "the history of biological concepts."It is worth considering the most charitable subtext of his assertions: that as the flagship periodical of the field, the contents of JHB are a window onto the diversity and the development of the history of biology. Indeed, early reviewers (e.g. Brown, 1968) hailed JHB as a signpost for the maturation of the history of biology as a distinct specialization within the history of science. The approaching quinquagenary of that first issue i...

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Locating Science, Locating Salmon: Institutions, Linkages, and Spatial Practices in Early British Columbia Fisheries Science

Cited by 13 publications

References 23 publications

Animal geographies II

Animal geographies II

Codification, patents and the geography of knowledge transfer in the electronic musical instrument industry

Quantitative Perspectives on Fifty Years of the Journal of the History of Biology

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