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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"scientific knowledge production"”.
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Victorian Egyptology and the Making of a Colonial Field Science, 1850-1906
… from diverse disciplinary backgrounds circulated knowledge about the built environment of pharaonic ruins: monuments, architecture, burials, and soil mounds that remained in situ. I trace the development of Egyptology from an activity that could be practiced long-distance through a network of …
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Modelling human wellbeing for fisheries management: Science, extraction and a politics of nature in the Walvis Bay, Namibia
… the logic of neoliberalism, relations between scientific knowledge production, historical labour practices, and political decision-making emerge as a way of managing people and nature in uneven ways. Scientific modelling practices in the form of stock assessments, maintain traction as the …
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Disposable Life: The Literary Imagination and the Contemporary Novel
… for such purposes as human consumption, scientific knowledge-production, and economic and political gain. In the novels considered, disposability is tied to excess--to the "too many" who cannot be counted, much less individuated on a case-by-case basis. </p><p>This project argues that the …
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A descriptive case study of successes and challenges in a scientific collaboration program based in the United States and Benin
While new patterns of scientific collaboration are now emerging such that scientists in advanced and emerging economies link with those in less developed economies, often based in global South, and generate significant scientific work, little research to date examines the actual practices of these …
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English as the International Language of Science: A Case Study of Mexican Scientists' Writing for Publication
Global dissemination of scientific findings is imperative for scientific advancement. However, the domination of English as an international language of science (EILS) has placed a potentially inequitable burden on multilingual periphery scholars attempting to disseminate their research findings in …
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A Multi-Scale analysis of organochlorine pesticide contamination in raptor populations: research effort, historical trends, and current concentrations
… and restrictions have led to a decline in the production and use of DDT and dieldrin throughout most parts of the world. However, despite their bans, or in the case of DDT, strict restrictions on use, have their levels fallen or are they still present in the environment at elevated levels …