Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World

全球化世界中工业危害的历史

• 批准号: 0646780
• 负责人: Christopher Sellers
• 金额: $ 2.49万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Stony Brook
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-15 至 2008-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0646780&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Histories; Industrial; Hazard; across; Globalizing

NSF funding is requested for a two-day workshop on "Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World," which is to be held in December of 2007 at Stony Brook University. This conference builds on recent scholarly interest in exploring boundaries between the history of science, environmental history and geography, as reflected in a 2002 conference and resulting 2004 volume of OSIRIS entitled "Landscapes of Exposure: Knowledge and Health in Modern Environments." That conference and volume consolidated an emergent set of themes and questions along the boundaries of these fields that moved beyond the debates generated by social constructivism and its critics. The proposed conference will test the potential of this foundation. It will also explore approaches to a world-scale narrative that received less attention in this earlier endeavor, globalization, by singling out one kind of local environment for study, that of modern industry. Our choice exploits another related scholarly trend. The history of industrial hazards, as it has taken on more environmental and ecological dimensions especially in the United States, has also sparked scholarly interest in many nations. The conference also builds on the precedents of two recent international conferences on workplace hazards, in Milan in 1998 and in Exeter, U.K., in 2006, the latter organized by Melling and Sellers. This trend toward international dialogue over the history of industrial hazards, mostly among non-U.S.-based scholars, paralleling as it has the convergences in American-based scholarship represented by the OSIRIS volume, has created a unique scholarly opportunity.Intellectual Merit: The proposed conference will advance both these emergent strands of scholarly dialogue by (1) enabling more focused and comparative discussion among representatives from history of science and medicine, environmental history, geography and other disciplinary neighbors (2) bringing out cross-national and international dimensions, especially relating to globalization (3) highlighting questions about the historical relationship between intra-workplace and wider environmental hazards (4) internationalizing both strands of dialogue, by balancing between non-American scholars (predominant in the recent conferences on history of industrial hazards) and American-based scholars (predominant in the OSIRIS collection). NSF-funding will enable us to invite 25 scholars, balanced between those who are American and foreign-based(from the U.K. and Europe, as well India, Australia, and South Africa). Tightening the focus to particular technologies, toxic exposures, and time periods that are of current interest to multiple scholars, we will facilitate comparative discussion and analysis. We are also encouraging papers on relevant international networks and institutions, and on the ways hazardous technologies and associated knowledge, whether of risks or remedies, have (or have not) traveled from one nation or territory to another.Broader Impacts: The resulting discussions and edited volume will offer a model for how more culturalist and materialist styles of scholarship may blend and effectively speak to one another, and for how historians of science and their disciplinary neighbors may address the newer worldscale narrative of globalization. In so doing, we will cultivate an international scholarly network, spur genuinely cross-national veins of inquiry, and advance the prospects for an understanding of the historical relationship between industrial hazards, knowledge, and globalization that is international in composition and scope. A secondary goal is to provide to important historical context and insight for contemporary practitioners and policy-makers.

要求国家科学基金会提供资金，用于2007年12月在斯托尼布鲁克大学举办为期两天的“全球化世界工业危害史”讲习班。这次会议建立在最近的学术兴趣，探索科学史，环境史和地理之间的界限，反映在2002年的会议和2004年的OSIRIS卷题为“暴露的景观：现代环境中的知识和健康。“那次会议和那本书沿着这些领域的边界，沿着整合了一系列新兴的主题和问题，超越了社会建构主义及其批评者所产生的辩论。拟议中的会议将检验这一基础的潜力。它还将通过挑选一种地方环境进行研究，即现代工业环境，来探索在早期的全球化奋进中较少受到关注的世界规模叙事方法。我们的选择利用了另一个相关的学术趋势。工业危害的历史，因为它已经采取了更多的环境和生态方面，特别是在美国，也引发了许多国家的学术兴趣。这次会议还借鉴了最近两次关于工作场所危险的国际会议的先例，一次是1998年在米兰，一次是在英国埃克塞特，在2006年，后者由梅林和塞勒斯组织。这一趋势的国际对话的历史上的工业危害，主要是在非美国-的学者，并行，因为它有收敛在美国为基础的奖学金所代表的OSIRIS卷，创造了一个独特的学术机会。拟议中的会议将通过以下方式推进这两个新兴的学术对话：（1）使科学史和医学史、环境史的代表能够进行更有重点的比较讨论，地理和其他学科的邻居（2）带来了跨国家和国际层面，特别是与全球化（3）突出有关内部工作场所和更广泛的环境危害之间的历史关系的问题（4）国际化的对话两条线，通过平衡非美国学者（在最近的工业危害史会议中占主导地位）和美国学者（在OSIRIS收藏中占主导地位）。NSF的资助将使我们能够邀请25名学者，在美国和外国学者（来自英国）之间保持平衡。以及印度、澳大利亚和南非）。将重点集中在特定的技术，有毒物质暴露，以及多位学者目前感兴趣的时间段，我们将促进比较讨论和分析。我们还鼓励编写关于相关国际网络和机构的文件，以及关于危险技术和相关知识，无论是风险还是补救措施，（或没有）从一个国家或地区旅行到另一个国家或地区。更广泛的影响：由此产生的讨论和编辑的卷将提供一个模型，如何更多的文化主义和唯物主义风格的学术可能融合和有效地互相交谈，以及科学史学家和他们的学科邻居如何解决全球化的新世界规模叙事。在这样做的时候，我们将培养一个国际学术网络，刺激真正的调查跨国静脉，并推进工业危害，知识和全球化之间的历史关系的理解是国际的组成和范围的前景。第二个目标是为当代实践者和政策制定者提供重要的历史背景和见解。