The imagined ‘other’ and its shifts: politics and identifications in Turkish Cyprus
10.1080/14608944.2016.1189409<br/>Magdalena Dembinska
Archiv für Juni 2016
The ‘Party for Immigrants’? Social Democrats‘ Struggle with an Inconvenient Electoral Issue
10.1080/09644008.2016.1182992<br/>Oliver Schmidtke
Women and state socialism: failed promises and radical changes revisited
10.1080/00905992.2016.1169263<br/>Maria Bucur
Fabian Krämer, Ein Zentaur in London. Lektüre und Beobachtung in der frühneuzeitlichen Naturforschung, (Kulturgeschichten. Studien zur Frühen Neuzeit 1) Affalterbach: Didymos 2014.
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1002%2Fbewi.201601775
Raf de Bont, Stations in the Field: A History of Place-Based Animal Research, 1870–1930, Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press 2015.
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1002%2Fbewi.201601796
Miguel de Asúa, Science in the Vanished Arcadia: Knowledge of Nature in the Jesuit Missions of Paraguay and Río de la Plata, (Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions 11) Leiden/Boston: Brill 2014.
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1002%2Fbewi.201601765
„[A]n der Front des Kampfes um den Menschen selbst“. Anthropogenetik und Anthropotechnik im sowjetischen Diskurs der 1920er Jahre
“[A]n der Front des Kampfes um den Menschen selbst”. Anthropogenetics and Anthropotechnics in Soviet Thought. The period between 1920 and 1930 reveals in Russia a practical manifestation of the technologies of the self, which see the body not only in a poetic-symbolical way, but practically as a material of shaping and rebuilding. In this bio-social discourse of a genetically perfected ‘new man’, Russian theorists of eugenics are looking back on traditional parallels of animal and plant breeding. The most influential group of eugenics were the Russian biologists, especially the key players and the founders of the Russian genetics research Nikolai Kol′tsov (1872–1940) and Aleksandr Serebrovskii (1892–1948). It will be demonstrated that ‘human breeding’ (Russ. ‘Antropotekhnika’) is based both on the semantics and on the methodology of traditional animal and plant breeding.
Weniger schlechte Bilder. Walfängerwissen in Naturgeschichte, Ozeanographie und Literatur im 19. Jahrhundert
Less Erroneous Pictures. Whalers’ Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Natural History, Oceanography, and Literature. This paper uses the iconoclasm of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick as a point of departure to examine the problem of representing whales pictorially. Focussing on the use of images in cetological works and whaling logbooks, the paper investigates how the whalers’ knowledge, which served the hunting, killing, and economic exploitation of whales, came to be inscribed in the antithetical work of natural historians who were increasingly interested in living organisms. This paper argues that Melville’s juxtaposition of whalers’ and naturalists’ knowledge runs parallel with a dichotomy, along which natural histories, travelogues, and thematic maps of oceanography constitute the whale as an object of knowledge. It concludes by suggesting that, at the same time, this dichotomy is repeatedly undermined for the sake of the whale’s representation.
Catelijne Coopmans, Janet Vertesi, Michael E. Lynch, Steve Woolgar (Hrsgg.), Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited, (Inside Technology) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 2014.
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1002%2Fbewi.201601792
A. Mark Smith, From Sight to Light: The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics, Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press 2014.
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1002%2Fbewi.201601795