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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"science popularisation"”.
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Unleashing Science Popularisation: Studies on Science as Popular Culture
This thesis aims to broaden the concept of science popularisation. It argues that the conventional view of popularisation as the public communication of appropriately simplified versions of established facts to lay audiences fails to capture the multifaceted nature of popularisation practices …
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"Weird Sex Science" in Britain, ca. 1900-1939: Narratives of Naturalisation and Eradication
… and behaviours—derived from the biological sciences and their impact in Britain through the Edwardian and interwar eras. Using a variety of published and archival sources, the thesis makes three main contributions to scholarship. Firstly, it identifies tensions between narratives of …
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The Word of Science: Popularising Darwinism in Romania, 1859-1918
This dissertation explores the popularisation of Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory in Romania from 1859 to 1918. Placing Darwinism in the Romanian context is important in several ways, as not only gives a picture of the interconnectedness between the political and the scientific construction of …