Introduction: Scientific Authority and the Politics of Science and History in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe (2021)
Cain, Friedrich (Author)
Dietlind Hüchtker (Author)
Kleeberg, Bernhard (Author)
Karin Reichenbach (Author)
Surman, Jan (Author)
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Volume: 44
Issue: 4
Pages: 339-351
Edition Details: Issue Theme: Scientific Authority and the Politics of Science and History in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe
Language: English
What sounds like a laborious set up for a shallow joke actually hits the core of the problem this issue covers: What do the leading archaeologist of the former German Democratic Republic in re-unifying Germany, Bulgarian scientists in the late 1960s and some recent discussions about representations of Polish ancient history have in common? They all operate along fractures in the crust of scientific authority, they mark moments in time when classical figures of knowledge reach or breach authoritative status. They serve to study how authoritative speech bridged and manifested these relations and help identify areas where scientific authority is contested. This volume transcends this topological rhetoric with a praxeological take on scientific authority. Concentrating on authority figures, it brings specific margins and contestations into sight. The papers in this volume study cases from former socialist countries of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, and thus examples that present us with the complexity of agonal relations within state socialism and post-socialist transformations that complicate matters of scientific authority in many ways, yet also offer illustrative examples of shifting constellations of (scientific) authority.
...MoreArticle Friedrich Cain (2021) Authority Claims Situating Socialist Science Studies in the GDR. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 352-372).
Article Miglena Nikolchina (2021) Breaking the Code: Political Control and the Humanities in 1960s Bulgaria. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 373-390).
Article Anne Kluger (2021) “Honecker's Vassal” or a Prehistorian in the Service of Science? The Evaluation of Former East German Scholarship and the Concept of the Scholar in the Debate on Joachim Herrmann in Reunified Germany. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 391-413).
Article Ella Rossman (2021) From Socialism to Social Media: Women's and Gender History in Post-Soviet Russia. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 414-432).
Article Michał Pawleta (2021) Reconstructing the Past, Renegotiating Authority: Reconstructed Archaeological Sites in Present-Day Poland. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 433-460).
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