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Into the woods

An epistemography of climate change
New Ethnographies

von: Meritxell Ramírez-i-Ollé, Alexander Smith
129,99 €
Verlag:	Manchester University Press
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	25.11.2019
ISBN/EAN:	9781526141002
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	152

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Titelbeschreibung

This book is a detailed exploration of the working practices of a community of scientists exposed in public, and of the making of scientific knowledge about climate change in Scotland. For four years, the author joined these scientists in their sampling expeditions into the Caledonian forests, observed their efforts in the laboratory to produce data from wood samples and followed their discussions of a graph showing the evolution of the Scottish temperature over the past millennium in conferences, workshops and peer-review journals. This epistemography of climate change is of broad social and academic relevance – both for its contextualised treatment of a key contemporary science, and for its original formulation of a methodology for investigating expertise.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

This book is a detailed exploration of the working practices of a community of scientists exposed in public, and of the making of scientific knowledge about climate change in Scotland.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: epistemography
1 Fieldwork
2 Dendrochronology
3 Standardisation
4 Reconstruction
5 Controversy
Bibliography
Index

Autorenportrait

Meritxell Ramírez-i-Ollé is Honorary Research Associate at University College London and Research Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona

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Into the Woods mounts an informed defence of climate science by offering a detailed investigation of the making of a paleoclimate reconstruction. For four years, Ramírez-i-Ollé joined a team of climate scientists in their tree sampling expeditions in the Scottish Highlands, observed their efforts in the laboratory to derive climate information from wood samples and followed their discussions in conferences, on-line conversations, workshops and peer-reviewed journals. Into the Woods takes its readers through the process of producing a scientific graph to show the evolution of past temperatures in Scotland in its various social and epistemic geographies. This study is organised linearly to demonstrate the complexities of knowledge-making; Ramírez-i-Ollé calls this methodological approach to research and writing in which the production of knowledge is intensely described and analysed “epistemography”. By understanding science as a situated practice shaped by disciplinary commitments to knowledge production—as well as other sociocultural and material factors that shape any human activity—Ramírez-i-Ollé provides crucial insights into the practice of climate science, distinct from the grotesque caricatures and damaging myths circulating in popular media and literature.

This book will appeal to scholars in science and technology studies, environmental policy, sociology, anthropology, and the history of science, as well as those engaged in the relatively new and promising field of ethnographies of climate science. Into the Woods will also be of interest to activists, bloggers and journalists interested in climate science.