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Practical mechanics, domestic technology, and the culture of modernity in Britain, c. 1870- 1940

实用力学、国内技术和英国现代性文化，c．

基本信息

批准号：
2280872
负责人：
金额：
--
依托单位：
University of Cambridge
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Studentship
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2019 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2280872
关键词：
Practical mechanics domestic technology culture

项目摘要

This project aims to examine the vibrant culture of amateur experimentation with new technological artefacts - principallycameras, automobiles, and wireless sets - which took root at the turn of the twentieth century. It seeks to provide a newoptic on historiographical debates about the relationships between technology and gender, and about the 'domestication'of technology in modern Britain. In doing so it hopes to provide insights into the culture of modernity in Britain morebroadly. By exploring the early culture of tinkering with cars, radios and cameras, this research hopes to provide anaccount of new technology which stresses the richness of the relationships between humans and machines. It seeks tomove away from a historiographical tendency to foreground the production, 'diffusion', and representation of newtechnologies, and instead observe actors as they creatively engaged with them. This will also, it is hoped, provide a newway of thinking about the processes by which those technologies became 'domesticated'. A further aim of studying thelargely male pursuit of practical mechanics is to provide an insight into the emergence of middle-class, masculine'technical' identities across this period. Again this will seek to correct a historiographical tendency to describe or assumethis identity without asking how or why it came into being. The emphasis in this research will thus be on the ways inwhich actors made themselves as they tinkered with machines.

这个项目旨在考察生机勃勃的业余实验文化，使用新的技术手工艺品--主要是相机、汽车和无线电视机--这些东西扎根于20世纪之交。这项研究旨在为有关技术与性别关系的史学辩论，以及关于现代英国技术的“驯化”提供新的视角。通过这样做，它希望为更广泛地洞察英国的现代性文化提供洞察。这项研究希望通过探索早期修修补补的汽车、收音机和相机文化，提供对强调人与机器之间关系的丰富性的新技术的描述。它试图摆脱历史学倾向，突出新技术的生产、传播和表现，而是观察演员如何创造性地参与其中。人们希望，这也将提供一种新的思维方式，来思考那些技术被“驯化”的过程。研究男性对实用机械的广泛追求的另一个目的是洞察这一时期中产阶级、阳刚的“技术”身份的出现。这将再次寻求纠正一种历史学倾向，即描述或假设这种身份，而不询问它是如何或为什么产生的。因此，这项研究的重点将放在演员在摆弄机器时如何创造自己。