Journal article
Moving Localities and Creative Circulation: Travels as Knowledge Production in 18th-Century Europe
Centaurus, v 56(3), pp 167-188
Aug 2014
Abstract
In recent historiography of science, circulation has been widely used to weave global narratives about the history of science. These have tended to focus on flows of people, objects and practices rather than investigating the spread of universal patterns of knowledge. The approach has also, to a great extent, concentrated on colonial contexts and treated 'European science' as a more or less homogeneous knowledge realm. Furthermore, these studies of circulation have usually been tied to a contextualist view of knowledge formation in which locality is taken as a set of specificities linked with particular locations. In this article we redirect the focus of the discussion on circulation to Europe, and reference spaces that are often absent from other scholarly accounts. We will ground our discussion on a comparative study of three travelling actors from the European periphery through whom we will introduce the notion of 'moving locality' in order to depict circulation as a knowledge production process per se.
Metrics
1 Record Views
Details
- Title
- Moving Localities and Creative Circulation: Travels as Knowledge Production in 18th-Century Europe
- Creators
- Pedro M. P. Raposo - Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da TecnologiaAna Simoes - Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da TecnologiaManolis Patiniotis - National and Kapodistrian University of AthensJose R. Bertomeu-Sanchez - College Station Medical Center
- Publication Details
- Centaurus, v 56(3), pp 167-188
- Publisher
- Brepols Publ
- Number of pages
- 22
- Grant note
- SFRH/BPD/73373/2010 / Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia; Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (FCT) SFRH/BPD/73373/2010 / FCT - Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology; Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (FCT)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- History; Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000341102000002
- Other Identifier
- 991022018196004721
InCites Highlights
Data related to this publication, from InCites Benchmarking & Analytics tool:
- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
- International collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- History & Philosophy Of Science