Slow science, the geographical expedition, and Critical Physical Geography
Slow science, the geographical expedition, and Critical Physical Geography
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慢科学、地理探险和批判自然地理学
DOI：
10.1111/cag.12329
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发表时间：
2017
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通讯作者：
S. Lane
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作者：
S. Lane
自然地理学已经发展成为一门高产的主流自然科学，提供了主导新自由主义大学的会计系统所需的指标。我认为，其结果是：（1）生产过剩危机（指超过我们消费能力的物品）;（2）生产不足的风险（我们提出维持生产力所需的研究问题的能力日益匮乏）;以及（3）一种“纪律修正”，涉及要么追求新自由主义影响议程中隐含的问题解决，要么创造性破坏，少用地理学多用自然科学使用伊莎贝尔Stengers的21世纪的科学批评，我认为在自然地理学放缓，通过改变我们如何与我们研究的主题。我使用威廉·邦吉的思想来讨论地理探险作为实现慢科学的一种手段的概念，即使“探险”是一个谨慎使用的术语。我从我自己的一个项目中阐述了这些观点，以展示科学如何缓慢地创造那些可能导致更具创造性和批判性的自然地理学的时刻，这些时刻集中在使科学家如此有趣的好奇心上。
Physical Geography has evolved to become a highly productive mainstream natural science, delivering on the metrics required by the accounting systems dominating the neoliberal University. I argue that the result has been: (1) a crisis of over-production (of more articles than we are capable of consuming); (2) a risk of under-production (growing scarcity in our ability to produce the research questions needed to sustain our productivity); and (3) a “disciplinary fix” involving either pursuit of the problem-solving implicit in the neoliberal impact agenda or creative destruction, aligning ourselves less with geography and more with the natural sciences. Using Isabelle Stengers' critique of 21st-century science, I argue for a slowing down in Physical Geography, by changing how we relate to the subjects that we study. I use the ideas of William Bunge to discuss the notion of geographical expedition as a means of achieving slow science, even if “expedition” is a term to be used cautiously. I illustrate these points from one of my own projects to show how slow science may allow creation of those moments that might lead to a more creative and critical Physical Geography centred on the very curiosity that makes being a scientist so interesting.
给年轻水文学家的建议
影响因子：
3.2
作者：
Beven K
通讯作者：
Beven K