RHETORIC AND REPRESENTATION IN AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE IN THE 1940s AND 1980s
| العنوان: | RHETORIC AND REPRESENTATION IN AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE IN THE 1940s AND 1980s |
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| المؤلفون: | Jean Moran |
| المصدر: | Prometheus. 1:271-289 |
| بيانات النشر: | Pluto Journals, 1983. |
| سنة النشر: | 1983 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Government, media_common.quotation_subject, Geography, Planning and Development, Politics, Excellence, Political economy, Law, Rhetoric, Power structure, Science communication, Sociology, Science, technology, society and environment education, Autonomy, Earth-Surface Processes, media_common |
| الوصف: | The title of this paper is not meant to imply comprehensive treatment of developments in Australian science from the 1940s to the 1980s. Its more modest objective is to isolate particular parallels in the debates and rhetoric about science in these two decades. It argues that shifting political and economic contexts condition scientists' preferred strategies of self-legitimation. These shifts may cause major realignments within the scientific power structure. Two such shifts occurred during the 1940s. Coinciding with the outbreak of World War II, the catchcry of ‘science for society’ catalysed unprecedented moves to register science as a key national resource. But the projection of the scientist as social engineer/mediator was not to be realised. With the onset of the Cold War, the scientific community reverted to the defence of autonomy and non-interventionism in scientific organisation. Scientific ‘excellence’ rapidly replaced ‘relevance’ as a justification for government support of science. The appeal ... |
| تدمد: | 1470-1030 0810-9028 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/08109028308628931 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::4b17479c41e19bc5b1173ffeac0dd466 https://doi.org/10.1080/08109028308628931 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........4b17479c41e19bc5b1173ffeac0dd466 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14701030 08109028 |
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| DOI: | 10.1080/08109028308628931 |