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The Politics of Sources Meets the Practices of the Librarian: An Interview with Esther Chen (2022)

Esther Chen (Author)
Keuck, Lara (Author)
Nickelsen, Kärin (Author)

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Volume: 45
Issue: 3
Pages: 508-516

DOI: 10.1002/bewi.202200035

Publication Date: 2022
Edition Details: Issue theme: Embracing Ambivalence and Change
Language: English

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Libraries and archives Primary literature (historical sources) Molecular biology Interviews Historiography 21st century Germany Rockefeller Foundation

[I] want to single out one phenomenon that could be called the ‘politics of sources’. It points to the extent to which the histories that both scientists and historians can write are artifacts of the available sources. The Rockefeller Foundation not only opened its archives very early on for historical work but also invested a lot in making the archives readily available for historical exploration. During the 1980s, many young historians took advantage of this opportunity. Thus, in a relatively early phase of the professional historiography of molecular biology, one could have gained the impression that the development of the new biology as a whole was a bio-politically directed enterprise of the Rockefeller Foundation sustained by the vision that social processes could ultimately be controlled by biological processes.

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Article Lara Keuck; Kärin Nickelsen (2022) Introduction: Embracing Ambivalence and Change. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 291-300). unapi

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