Abstract
Any history of science has its own geography as well. Geographers of science have tried to put science in its place. They study the socio-spatial settings in which scientific knowledge was generated, displayed and legitimated. For them, science is socially constructed in spatialities and temporalities. The main question should to be “how” spatialities are constructing scientific knowledge via its “causalities”. Geography of science is not just about special places, locations, and regions in which scientific knowledge is unequally produced/consumed and circulated or how the use of scientific knowledge can lead to the production and reproduction of unique places and spaces. Geography of science is also about a variety set of spatial causalities through which scientific knowledge can be formed and transformed. This also means that the innovative knowledge or ideas development takes place not only in the spatial contexts but because of the spatial causalities which rise from the myriad interlinkages and interdependencies among places. These imperatives of spatial significance operate across many spatial scales from the body to the global. Hence, in our increasingly glocalized world, we must seek knowledge in spatial encounters and betweenness of places, not merely within spaces and places.
Highlights
IntroductionWhen I first encounter this brilliant idea from historical geographer Charles Withers that, “if we can have a history of science, a philosophy of science and a sociology of science, why not a geography and, even, a historical geography of science?” [1] (p. 9) it seems to me really like an undiscovered continent
Geography of science is about a variety set of spatial causalities through which scientific knowledge can be formed and transformed. This means that the innovative knowledge or ideas development takes place in the spatial contexts but because of the spatial causalities which rise from the myriad interlinkages and interdependencies among places
When I first encounter this brilliant idea from historical geographer Charles Withers that, “if we can have a history of science, a philosophy of science and a sociology of science, why not a geography and, even, a historical geography of science?” [1] (p. 9) it seems to me really like an undiscovered continent
Summary
When I first encounter this brilliant idea from historical geographer Charles Withers that, “if we can have a history of science, a philosophy of science and a sociology of science, why not a geography and, even, a historical geography of science?” [1] (p. 9) it seems to me really like an undiscovered continent. When I first encounter this brilliant idea from historical geographer Charles Withers that, “if we can have a history of science, a philosophy of science and a sociology of science, why not a geography and, even, a historical geography of science?” [1] The first lesson I learned through this journey was that historians of geography have failed to attend to the spatial components of their tradition's history in one sense; that is the history of geography has frequently been written with little reference to the placing of geographical knowledge in its various spatialities or putting science in its place; Because we always act on this widespread assumption that securing credibility and achieving objectivity required “placelessness” [2,3,4]. This note tried to show very briefly that the geographies of science are not about spatial disparities of knowledge and about the role that “spatial causalities” can play in the generation of scientific knowledge
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