Call for manuscripts – new book series Cultural Dynamics of Science
The new series Cultural Dynamics of Science (CDS) at
Brill aims to contribute to on-going efforts in the history of science to
understand the relations between the production, communication, consumption and
use of knowledge without having recourse to the traditional equation of
popularization with notions such as 'diffusion' and 'simplification'. The same goes for the distinctions they imply
between expert knowledge and practices, on one side, and lay communities and
understanding on the other. Focused on the modern period, from the
Enlightenment to the present, CDS intends instead to consider the various ways
in which interaction, exchange and struggle for scientific authority among the
different actors involved has historically fed the productive circulation of
knowledge. Sensitivity to specific contexts, epistemologies, spaces and
networks, in which material production merges with knowledge production, is
therefore paramount.
CDS also aims to contribute to recent efforts in the
history of science to move across fields traditionally studied by different
scholarly disciplines, and to evolve into more inclusive, interdisciplinary
cultural studies. It is further committed to a geographically expansive scope
of coverage, focusing on the transnational and transcultural character of the
scientific endeavour.
While the series aims foremost at the publication of
well-written scholarly monographs, carefully integrated collections of essays
will also be welcome.
Please send your manuscripts and book proposals to one of
editors of CDS:
Lissa Roberts (University of Twente), l.l.roberts@utwente.nl
Oliver Hochadel (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Científicas (CSIC), Barcelona), oliver.hochadel@imf.csic.es
Agustí Nieto-Galan (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), agusti.nieto@uab.cat