Knowledge in Intermediate Spaces: Forms of Complexity Generation and Reduction in the Study on Solid State Bodies, 1930-1970 (C05)

本项目将以固态物理和材料科学的形成为例，重点关注跨学科知识的脆弱状态。它将分析从业人员如何应用材料和实验实践来稳定居住在不同学科和专业之间的知识体系。此外，它旨在展示演员如何设法将“薄弱”的非学科知识转化为诸如物理和化学等既定学科的习惯用法。一个重点将是演员对“物质”资源的占有，另一个重点是“非物质”资源所起的作用，如对“秩序”、“结构”或“系统”的新理解。

This project will focus on the fragile status of interdisciplinary knowledge using the formation of solid-state physics and the materials sciences as an example. It will analyse how the practitioners applied material and experimental practices to stabilise a body of knowledge residing among various disciplines and professions. In addition, it aims to show how the actors managed to translate 'weak' non-disciplinary knowledge into the idioms of established disciplines such as physics and chemistry. One focus will be on the appropriation of 'material' resources by the actors, another on the role played by 'immaterial' resources such as new understandings of 'order' 'structure', or 'system'.