Invisible Labour in Modern Science

Xan Chacko

ISBN 10: 1538171562 / ISBN 13: 9781538171561

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book explores how and why some people and practices are made invisible in science, featuring 25 case studies and commentaries that explore how invisibility can bolster or undermine credibility, how race, gender, class, and nation frame who can see what, how invisibility empowers and marginalizes, and the epistemic ramifications of concealment.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Invisible Labour in Modern Science
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1538171562
• ISBN 13: 9781538171561
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 21D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 21 millimeters depth
• Weight: 575 grams

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Synopsis

Invisible Labour in Modern Science is about the people who are concealed, eclipsed, or anonymised in accounts of scientific research. Many scientific workers―including translators, activists, archivists, technicians, curators, and ethics review boards―are absent in publications and omitted from stories of discovery. Scientific reports are often held to ideals of transparency, yet they are the result of careful judgments about what (and what not) to reveal. Professional scientists are often celebrated, yet they are expected to uphold principles of ‘objective’ self-denial. The emerging and leading scholars writing in this book negotiate such silences and omissions to reveal how invisibilities have shaped twentieth and twenty-first century science.
Invisibility can be unjust; it can also be powerful. What is invisible to whom, and when does this matter? How do power structures built on hierarchies of race, gender, class and nation frame what can be seen? And for those observing science: When does the recovery of the ‘invisible’ serve social justice and when does it invade privacy? Tackling head-on the silences and dilemmas that can haunt historians, this book transforms invisibility into a guide for exploring the moral sensibilities and politics of science and its history.

About the Author

Laura Stark is a professor of ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She was previously the director of the exchange network Living with Informal Settlements, Tackling Urban Poverty (LIFT UP), funded by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.