Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: Within the STEP research agenda there has never been an explicit focus on the city as a central place for knowledge production.Scholars of the urban history of science tend to concentrate on the metropolis and have not looked in any systematic way at the scientific culture in "peripheral" urban contexts.To fill this gap, this essay proposes to focus on: (1) the role of science, technology and medicine in everyday life and the experiences of the citizens; (2) the plurality of the often conflicting notions of urban modernity; (3) the complex networks of interurban connections between the "peripheries."This essay intends to point out a blind spot situated at the intersection of two burgeoning historiographies: the urban history of science, technology, and medicine (STM) and STEP (Science and Technology on the European Periphery). 1 At the crossroads of these two lines of research lies the urban history of STM on the periphery.How might we connect these two approaches?And what, if anything, might we gain from looking at the STM culture of cities considered as "peripheral"?Our focus will be on the Oliver Hochadel is a historian of science and tenured researcher at the Institució Milà i Fontanals in Barcelona (CSIC, Spanish National Research Council).His research focuses on the relationship between science and its publics.His case studies include electricity as a public science in the German Enlightenment, the zoo in the nineteenth century, and human origins research in the twentieth century.Agustí Nieto-Galan is associate professor in history of science and former director of the Centre d'Història de la Ciència (CEHIC) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.He has written widely on the history of chemistry and natural dyestuffs as well as on the history of science popularization from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.The authors would like to thank Jaume Sastre, Catarina
Source: Technology and Culture
Authors: Oliver Hochadel, Agustí Nieto-Galan
Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2556876592