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Introduction: What Is a Field? Transformations in Fields, Fieldwork, and Field Sciences since the Mid-Twentieth Century (2022)

Cameron Brinitzer (Author)
Benson, Etienne Samuel (Author)

Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 113
Issue: 1
Pages: 108-113

DOI: 10.1086/718147

URI: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/718147

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In recent decades, scholarship in the history of science has explored the emergence and development of sciences in which fields serve as privileged sites of knowledge production. Much of this work has focused on the field sciences’ formative period from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, and it is the definitions of the field, fieldwork, and field science emerging from the study of this period that have come to dominate the historical literature. Those definitions cannot, however, account for transformations that have taken place across many field sciences since the mid-twentieth century. Examining a diverse set of disciplines and contexts, the contributions to this Focus section reveal the specific conceptual and material contours of fields, fieldwork, and field sciences during this more recent period and suggest a number of unanswered questions and topics for future research.

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Article Etienne Benson (2022) The Post-Heroic Field. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 114-120). unapi

Article Erika Lorraine Milam (2022) Making Place in the Field. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 121-127). unapi

Article Laura Stark (2022) Reservations. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 128-136). unapi

Article Rosanna Dent (2022) Whose Home Is the Field?. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 137-143). unapi

Article Cameron Brinitzer (2022) Generating Fields. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 144-150). unapi

Article Stefan Helmreich (2022) Flipping the Field. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 151-156). unapi

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