Article ID: CBB453806040

Higher and colder: The success and failure of boundaries in high altitude and Antarctic research stations (December 2016)

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Heggie, Vanessa (Author)


Social Studies of Science
Volume: 46
Issue: 6
Pages: 809-832


Publication Date: December 2016
Edition Details: Guest edited issue on the Field Station, edited by P. Wenzel Geissler, Ann H. Kelly, and Sergio Sismondo
Language: English

This article offers a series of case studies of field stations and field laboratories based at high altitudes in the Alps, Himalayas and Antarctica, which have been used by Western scientists (largely physiologists and physicists) from circa 1820 to present. It rejects the common frame for work on such spaces that polarizes a set of generalizations about practices undertaken in ‘the field’ versus ‘the laboratory’. Field sites are revealed as places that can be used to highlight common and crucial features of modern experimental science that are exposed by, but not uniquely the properties of, fieldwork. This includes heterogeneity of population and practice, diverse afterlives, the manner in which spaces of science construct individual and group expertise, and the extensive support and funding structures needed for modern scientific work.

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Authors & Contributors
Luzzini, Francesco
Aubin, David
Boesch, Brandon
Zwart, Sjoerd
Chetan Singh
Béatrice Cointe
Concepts
Laboratories
Field work
Mountains
Research institutes; research stations
Experiments and experimentation
Case studies
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
18th century
20th century, early
Places
Alps (Europe)
United States
Italy
Germany
Austro-hungary
Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
Institutions
Project Sealab
Skylab Program
East India Company (English)
United States Navy
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Sonnblick Observatorium
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