Call for manuscripts – book series Cultural Dynamics of Science
The series Cultural Dynamics of Science (CDS)
just published its first volume: Bernard Lightman, ed. Global
Spencerism. The Communication
and Appropriation of a British Evolutionist. Leiden: Brill, 2015. See: http://www.brill.com/products/
A number of further titles are in preparation. Yet we would like to use this
opportunity to remind interested authors to submit manuscripts to our series.
CDS 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 the 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