Staffan Bergwik
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View article: The great scientific acceleration: Scientometrics and time-binding techniques 1950–1980
The great scientific acceleration: Scientometrics and time-binding techniques 1950–1980 Open
This article examines discourse on science citations and information between 1950 and 1980. Drawing upon the works of Eugene Garfield, John Desmond Bernal, and Derek de Solla Price, it explores how the scientific publication became a locus…
View article: Chapter 9. Synchronizing Nature and Culture: Mediating Time in Geochronology and Dendrochronology, 1900–1945
Chapter 9. Synchronizing Nature and Culture: Mediating Time in Geochronology and Dendrochronology, 1900–1945 Open
Throughout the nineteenth century, geology opened previously incomprehensible timescales, displayed deep time, and produced an enormous expansion of temporal horizons accessible to human understanding.Knowledge about geological strata burs…
View article: Omkontextualisering: Det kreativa bygget av sammanhang
Omkontextualisering: Det kreativa bygget av sammanhang Open
This chapter deals with ”recontextualization”. It argues that a core analytical function of any history writing is reflecting upon which context a source, actor, or other historical phenomenon is placed within. The chapter draws on the exa…
View article: Times of History, Times of Nature: Temporalization and the Limits of Modern Knowledge
Times of History, Times of Nature: Temporalization and the Limits of Modern Knowledge Open
As climate change becomes an increasingly important part of public discourse, the relationship between time in nature and history is changing. Nature can no longer be considered a slow and immobile background to human history, and the futu…
View article: Working-Class Literature(s): Historical and International Perspectives
Working-Class Literature(s): Historical and International Perspectives Open
"The aim of this collection is to make possible the forging of a more robust, politically useful, and theoretically elaborate understanding of working-class literature(s). These essays map a substantial terrain: the history of working-clas…