Verticalities in oral histories of science
Verticalities in oral histories of science
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科学口述史的垂直性
DOI：
10.1111/1600-0498.12324
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2020
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P. Merchant
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P. Merchant
本文关注的是科学家们在最近记录的长篇生活故事采访中谈论垂直（这里理解为空间方向：向上/向下而不是横向）在过去科学工作中的作用的方式。特别是，我探索了几个科学工作的片段，其中（参与其中的科学家告诉我们）垂直性意外地成为工作的一个重要方面。我认为，这些故事告诉我们以前被忽视的科学地理特征，以及对科学家书面和口头叙述的各种影响。我展示了对田野调查故事的关注，这些故事具有垂直度的不同方面——垂直距离、下降速度和底部位置——这为科学的实践及其事后的叙述提供了新的视角，这些故事在科学论文和生活故事记录等不同的交流中出现。
This paper is concerned with the way in which scientists speak—in extended life‐story interviews recorded recently—about the role of verticality (understood here as an orientation in space: up/down rather than across) in past scientific work. In particular, I explore several episodes of scientific work in which (the scientists involved tell us) verticality emerged unexpectedly as an important aspect of the work. I argue that these stories tell us about previously neglected features of the geography of science as well as about the various influences on scientists' written and spoken accounts. I show that attention to stories of fieldwork featuring different aspects of verticality—vertical distance, rate of fall, and position under—sheds new light on the doing of science and its narration after the event, in such different communications as scientific papers and life‐story recordings.