Project description
The regulatory role of scientific societies within science
Scientific societies have major impacts on the scientific community in a variety of ways, from organising conferences to publishing journals. The EU-funded GLOBAL ACADEMIES project aims to understand and map this impact. It will use scientific societies as a lens through which to scrutinise the changing social relations between scientists on a global scale. The focus will be on the 20th century, a period of intense social and geopolitical changes, such as decolonisation and the Cold War. The project will develop a conceptual toolkit that scholars can use to understand scientific societies, and it will set a new historical framework for understanding the role of scientific societies in science.
Objective
Science has become a global enterprise. To produce knowledge, scientists with different nationalities, gender backgrounds, ethnicities and socio-political views engage in debate and adopt shared codes of conduct (e.g. leaving out personal bias when evaluating each other’s work). This project conducts historical research into the mechanisms that structure these global social relations within science by using 20th century scientific societies as its lens. It hypothesizes that these hitherto unstudied societies have played a regulatory role in the globalization of science by acting as ‘gatekeepers’, simultaneously opening up and limiting access to (sub)groups, such as women scholars or scholars from the Global South, by organizing (massive) conferences, selecting speakers, allocating prizes, electing boards etc. Building on studies of gender and ethnicity in science and on sociological analyses of evaluation in science, GLOBAL ACADEMIES innovates the concept of scientific sociability to include unspoken codes of conduct that could establish divisions within scientific groups, allowing the study of societies’ mechanisms of in- and exclusion, of setting (implicit) standards, and their strategies for coping with (political) dissent. The project innovates methodologically by engaging in multi-sited research into scientific societies in the USA, France, India and Brazil, and at the international level, and by using multiple research methods (journal analysis, archival research and oral history), in which present-day scientific societies are involved as stakeholders. The project aims (1) to develop a conceptual toolkit for scholars across the humanities and social sciences to understand scientific societies’ formats, standards and customs in relation to scientists’ group behavior and (2) to set a new historical framework for understanding the role of scientific societies in science, foregrounding issues of gender, ethnicity and geopolitics in an era of decolonization.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- humanities history and archaeology history
- social sciences sociology anthropology ethnology
- social sciences other social sciences development studies development theories global development studies globalization
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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3000 LEUVEN
Belgium
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