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Tales of an island‐laboratory: defining the field in geography and science studies
Author(s) -
Greenhough Beth
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
transactions of the institute of british geographers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.196
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1475-5661
pISSN - 0020-2754
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2006.00211.x
Subject(s) - science studies , complicity , field (mathematics) , sociology , space (punctuation) , epistemology , social science , political science , philosophy , mathematics , law , pure mathematics , linguistics
This paper investigates the ways in which field sites are defined in both science and science studies. Drawing on the example of how Iceland became a laboratory for both genetic science and science studies, it suggested that the spaces of science social scientists critique are also, to some extent, endorsed and reproduced through their own critical representations and practices. It is argued that this complicity between science studies and science both poses challenges and offers opportunities for geographers studying the relationship between life sciences, science studies and space.