Beyond the Lab and the Field: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century (2022)
Beyond the Lab and the Field analyzes infrastructures as intense sites of knowledge production in the Americas, Europe, and Asia since the late nineteenth century. Moving beyond classical places known for yielding scientific knowledge, chapters in this volume explore how the construction and maintenance of canals, highways, dams, irrigation schemes, the oil industry, and logistic networks intersected with the creation of know-how and expertise. Referred to by the authors as “scientific bonanzas,” such intersections reveal opportunities for great wealth, but also distress and misfortune. This volume explores how innovative technologies provided research opportunities for scientists and engineers, as they relied on expertise to operate, which resulted in enormous profits for some. But, like the history of any gold rush, the history of infrastructure also reveals how technologies of modernity transformed nature, disrupting communities and destroying the local environment. Focusing not on the victory march of science and technology but on ambivalent change, contributors consider the role of infrastructures for ecology, geology, archaeology, soil science, engineering, ethnography, heritage, and polar exploration. Together, they also examine largely overlooked perspectives on modernity: the reliance of infrastructure on knowledge, and infrastructures as places and occasions that inspired a greater understanding of the natural world and the technologically made environment.
...MoreReview Thomas Kaiserfeld (2023) Review of "Beyond the Lab and the Field: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century". Technology and Culture (pp. 268-269).
Chapter Kehrt, Christian (2022) Landing strips and penguins : ecological oppositions to the scientific exploration of Antarctica. In: Beyond the Lab and the Field: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century (pp. 1196-214).
Chapter Roy Kozlovsky; Neta Feniger (2022) Detour along the way : obstacles and knowledge production at the Ayalon Highway. In: Beyond the Lab and the Field: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century (pp. 177-195).
Chapter Lagendijk, Vincent (2022) NIMBY bonanzas : European infrastructures and local protest as system building. In: Beyond the Lab and the Field: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century (pp. 160-176).
Chapter Timm Schönfelder (2022) Slaves to the yield : scientific bonanza and irrigation-megalomania in the Kuban River Basin. In: Beyond the Lab and the Field: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century (pp. 147-159).
Chapter Valentina Roxo (2022) From the stone age into socialism : ethnographic expertise and sovietization at West Siberian oil deposits. In: Beyond the Lab and the Field: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century (pp. 122-146).
Chapter Heine, Eike-Christian (2022) Autobahn and archaeology : intersections of infrastructure, knowledge, and ideology during the Third Reich. In: Beyond the Lab and the Field: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century (pp. 101-121).
Chapter Benjamin Brendel (2022) Constructing dams' global success story : knowledge production, staging, and exchange in US American and Spanish dam building from the 1920s to the 1970s. In: Beyond the Lab and the Field: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century (pp. 87-100).
Chapter Zumbrägel, Christian (2022) Hydropower and dams : an entangled history of academic engineers, local knowledge, and environmental features, 1880-1930. In: Beyond the Lab and the Field: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century (pp. 63-86).
Chapter Meiske, Martin (2022) Exploring the earth through its anthropogenic scars : geology and the construction of the Panama Canal. In: Beyond the Lab and the Field: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century (pp. 43-62).
Chapter Sutter, Paul S. (2022) Subversive bonanza : the construction of the Panama Canal, the biomedical and life sciences, and the birth of tropical ecology. In: Beyond the Lab and the Field: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century (pp. 21-42).
Chapter Meiske, Martin; Heine, Eike-Christian (2022) Introduction. Scientific Bonanzas: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production. In: Beyond the Lab and the Field: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century (pp. 3-20).
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