Creativity from the Periphery : Trading Zones of Scientific Exchange in Colonial India.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dasgupta, Deepanwita.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative ability in science--India--History.

Creative ability in science.

Research--India--History.

Research.

India.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021.

Summary:

Science is usually known by its most successful figures and resource-rich institutions. In stark contrast, Creativity from the Periphery draws our attention to unknown figures in science--those who remain marginalized, even neglected, within its practices. Researchers in early twentieth-century colonial India, for example, have made significant contributions to the stock of scientific knowledge and have provided science with new breakthroughs and novel ideas, but to little acclaim. As Deepanwita Dasgupta argues, sometimes the best ideas in science are born from difficult and resource-poor conditions. In this study, she turns our attention to these peripheral actors, shedding new light on how scientific creativity operates in lesser-known, marginalized contexts, and how the work of self-trained researchers, though largely ignored, has contributed to important conceptual shifts. Her book presents a new philosophical framework for understanding this peripheral creativity in science through the lens of trading zones--where knowledge is exchanged between two unequal communities--and explores the implications for the future diversity of transnational science.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.

Contents:

The theoretical framework. On the idea of peripheral zones in science

Division of cognitive labor at the periphery

Trading zones in peripheral science

Risks and hopes in a peripheral practice

Four case studies in peripheral science. Birth of new statistics

A theory about the spectra of the sun

Discovering light of a different color

The Madras triple helix

Epilogue : final reflections.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780822988021

082298802X

OCLC:

1256805985