Article ID: CBB602203158

Authority Claims Situating Socialist Science Studies in the GDR (2021)

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Cain, Friedrich (Author)


Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Volume: 44
Issue: 4
Pages: 352-372


Publication Date: 2021
Edition Details: Scientific Authority and the Politics of Science and History in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe
Language: English

This essay studies the narrative self-positioning of Science Studies in the German Democratic Republic during the 1980s. Drawing on archival material on the foundation of the Council for Marxist-Leninist Science Studies at the Academy of Sciences in East Berlin in March 1988, it analyses how boundaries between Science Studies as a lone standing discipline and several other fields were construed and crossed at the same time and how (scientific) authority was claimed from the intermediate position of an external insider. Not only did Science Studies engage with their subject – the sciences –, but also with the politics of the Socialist Party, with the institution of the Academy, and with (industrial) production. After a formative institutional phase that spanned across the 1970s, Science Studies made efforts to centralize their work during the 1980s, to bind themselves closer to the state and scientific institutions, and to distinguish themselves from them at the same time.

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Article Friedrich Cain; Dietlind Hüchtker; Bernhard Kleeberg; Karin Reichenbach; Jan Surman (2021) Introduction: Scientific Authority and the Politics of Science and History in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 339-351). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Ash, Mitchell G.
Augustine, Dolores L.
Baneke, David M.
Castelo, Cláudia
Düppe, Till
Figaredo Curiel, Francisco Humberto
Journals
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
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Geohistorische Blätter
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Publishers
Amsterdam University Press
The MIT Press
University of North Carolina Press
University of Washington Press
Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung
George Washington University
Concepts
Science and politics
Socialism
Science and government
Science and society
Science studies, as a discipline
Authority of science
People
Bethe, Hans Albrecht
Herrmann, Joachim
Marx, Karl
Pannekoek, Anton
Rabinowitch, Eugene
Sagan, Carl
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20th century, late
20th century
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21st century
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Soviet Union
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China
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