Domesticity in the Making of Modern Science
Domesticity in the Making of Modern Science
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现代科学发展中的家庭生活
DOI：
10.1057/9781137492739_8
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2016
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Morris C
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Morris C
This chapter addresses the following question: What happens when the contemporary home becomes a site of scientific knowledge production, both for the meanings and understandings of home but also for the practices and politics of knowledge production? We seek to contribute to recent scholarship on the cultural geographies of home, which has paid little attention to the home as a site of scientific knowledge production, and how this activity reconfigures the home and practices of homemaking. We also speak to multidisciplinary work on the spatialities of scientific knowledge production, which has undertaken limited analysis of what it means to produce scientific knowledge, both certified and unaccredited, within a contemporary domestic environment, and the implications for the status of knowledge produced in this location. 1 The spatialities of weather and climate knowledge production by amateur meteorologists provide the empirical focus of this chapter, and through this we also seek to contribute to recent work analysing the cultural dimensions of climate. This research uncovers the culturally specific and spatially and temporally distinctive meanings and practices of weather and climate beyond those produced by global climate change science. 2 More specifically, we explore these meanings and practices as they are played out in the domestic sphere, focusing in particular on those associated with amateur meteorology. We approach our task through a case study of one UK-based amateur meteorology organization–the Climatological Observers Link (COL)–a
