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- Elzinga, Aant, 1937
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Review Essay: Coming to Grips with the Greenland Ice. Historical Flashbacks. Cornelia Lüdecke (hsg.), Verborgen Eiswelten. Erich von Drygalskis Bericht über seine Grönlandsexpeditionen 1891, 1892-1893, München: Ausgust Dreesback Verlag 2015; Janet Martin-Nielsen, Eismitte in the Scientific Imagination. Knowledge and Politics at the Center of Greenland, New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2013.
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Northern Studies. - 1654-5915. ; 9:2, s. 109-126
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This is a review of two books that deal with exploration and research in Greenland over the course of several historical periods. The focus is on the efforts to understand the character of the ice and its impact on human life, both of indigenous peoples and researchers over time. The first book highlights a little known episode of exploration in the late 19th century and the second is one of the otucome of a recent science studies program at Aarhus University. It throws considerable new light on Alfred Wegener's expedition and subsequent expeditions during the period of the Cold War and later. The program, entitled Exploring Greenland: Science and Technology in Cold War Settings, traces how politics and research in Greenland have been intertwined and how this inlfuenced research agendas and modes of multi-national collaboration.
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- Elzinga, Aant, 1937
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Alexandra Hofmänner's paper "The African Eve Effect in Science" : Critical commentary
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Ingår i: Archaeologies, Journal of the World Congress of Archeology. ; 7:1, s. 3-5
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This is a comment on Alexandra Hofmänner's paper that identifies what she calls the "African Eve" effect in science. The term Matthew effect was coined by Robert Merton in 1968 to refer to the situation where those researchers who are privileged to have most resources and are most cited attract more resources and further citations. In 1993 Margaret W. Rossiter introduced the concept of the Matilda effect to analyse a systemic gender skew endemic to the reward system in science. Hofmänner introduces the nótion of an Afrcan Eve effect as an explanatory concept for analysing discursive conventions that in a global perspective project imaginary geographies whereby researchers in non-Western countries are rendered invisible or very low in the hierarchies of existing disciplines. This is not only a matter of a geographical or sociological skew but very much one of social epistemology and associated (philosophical) anthropological categories and dominant methodologies for acquiring data in the field, and transporting it from the peripheries to world centers of calculation and interpretation where "viable" theories are created and published. In making her case she utilises a number of concepts from the field of science and technology studies (STS). The reviewer welcomes the analysis as an interesting re-introduction of philosophical anthropology into science studies, suggesting that further development of the discussion may benefit from linking both to earlier meta-theoretical discussions by Sandra Harding and Donna Haraway, as well as philosophical anthropology as developed in critical theory through the work of Jürgen Habermas and more recently by Andrew Feenberg. At the same time the comment points to a number of weaknesses in the exemplifications used. Among other I challenge the claim that historically a major feature of the Nobel Prize institution and its procedures for recognizing excellence in science was the systematic incorporation of an African Eve effect as it is described by Hofmänner.
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- Elzinga, Aant, 1937
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Drömmar om en elefant. Några ämneshistoriska anteckningar
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Ingår i: Vi vet något. Festskrift till Jan Bärmark, Margareta Hallberg (red.). - Göteborg : University of Gothenburg. - 9789197623919 ; , s. 73-93
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Bakgrunden till ämnet vetenskapsteorins införande vid Göteborgs universitet och dess utveckling såsom en del av "forskning om forskning" och senare koppling till vetenskapsstudier (STS) tas upp på basis av en genomgång av skrifter och dokument fram till 1995. Kapitlet innehåller en tabell med 25 nyckelhändelser mellan 1975-1995. Analogin med "drömman om en elefant" anspelar på titeln på en bok red. av J. Bärmark 1984, Forskning om forskning, eller konsten att beskriva en elefant. Framställningen i kapitlet inkluderar ett avsnitt om det antika indiska ämnet "Elefantologi" och antyder att "Forskning om forskning" blev en "vit elefant".
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- Elzinga, Aant, 1937
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Internationalisation of Science and Technology
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Ingår i: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioural Sciences, eds. Neil J. Schmelser and Paul B Baltes. ; 20, s. 13633-13638
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- Elzinga, Aant, 1937
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The Einstein-Bergson Controversy over time
- 2018
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Ingår i: Lunch Bunch Seminar at Physics Dept., Chalmers Technological University, Gothenburg.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- When Einstein in 1922 was finally awarded the 1921 Nobel prize there was something funny about the citation, it was not for relativity theory. It was "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect". Inserted was also a phrase that the award was independent of however the theory of relativity might later be assessed. In other words relativity was explicitly excluded, a most unusual formulation. Svante Arrhenius’ introductory words moreover said that relativity theory belonged to the realm of epistemology, not physics. He noted, “ /I/t will be no secret that the famous philosopher Bergson in Paris has challenged this theory…”. The reference is to a famous dialogue 6 April, 1922 when Henri Bergson and Albert Einstein crossed swords. Bergson meant that the clock-time used in physics was fine for science but it is not the whole story regarding time. It is arrived through disembodiment and geometrisation as ideal. For philosophy and the humanities time is something deeper, subjectively contingent and related to a continual flow in lived experience that cannot be quantitatively parsed into small bits. Also it has to do with memory as in Marcel Proust’s novel À la recherche du temps perdu. Einstein countered saying that there was objective physical time and then psychological time and the former was correct. As for philosophers’ time it does not exist. In my talk I will take up this discussion that had repercussions in a divide between science and the humanities. And some aspects in the controversy will be teased out.
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Changing Trends in Antarctic Research
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book gives an update 1993 on the then rapidly changing events surrounding the introduction of an environmental protection regime in Antarctica. The volume stems from an International Symposium in Göteborg, 30 Septembr - October 1, 1991 to mark the 3oth anniversary year of the Antarctic Treaty, with a special concluding chapter based on an evaluation 1991 of the activities of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). The evaluation was commissioned by ICSU and it was led by Professor Rita R. Colwell of the University of Maryland, at the time vice chair of NAS's Polar research Board. Individual chapters are based on conference presentations by Finn Solie (who had been involved in the drafting of the Antarctic treaty), Nigel Bonner (UK), Anders karlqvist (Sweden), Olav Orheim (Norway), James N. Barnes (ASOC), Bruce Davies (Australia), Barry Heywood (BAS, UK), Kent Larsson (Sweden), as well as prepared statements by Riita Mansukoski, Paul-Christian Rieber, Jan H. Stel, and Jarl-Ove Strömberg.
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- Elzinga, Aant, 1937, et al.
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Academic Capitalism : Är universitet på väg att bli en marknadsplats
- 1998
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Ingår i: GU Journalen. ; :6/98
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Artikeln refererar ett bidrag till en konferens om forskningens och den högre utbildningens villkor. Aant Elzinga och Lennart Olausson i bidragit informerar bl a om en aktuell bok med titeln Academic Capitalism
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- Elzinga, Aant, 1937
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Achievements of the Second International Polar Year
- 2010
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Ingår i: S. Barr & C. Lüdecke (eds.), The History of the International Polar Years (IPYs). From Pole to Pole. - Berlin & Heidelberg : Springer Verlag. - 9783642124020
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The context and conditions of research and monitoring at the time of IPY-2 had changed dramatically compared to those obtaining during IPY-1. In this respect at least six aspects must be considered when it comes to assessing achievements and limitations 1932–1933: (i) geopolitics and economics, (ii) practical benefits and concerns at the time, (iii) the organizational framework of the enterprise, (iv) logistics, including new modes of communication and transportation, (v) new instruments and other tools for research on and monitoring of geophysical phenomena, particularly in the domains of meteorology, geomagnetics and aurorae and (vi) the advent of a new hypothetico-deductive ideal of science that to some extent moderated the force of the older inductivist epistemology that had permeated the activities of IPY-1.
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- Elzinga, Aant, 1937
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An Evaluation of the Achievements of the First Polar Year
- 2010
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Ingår i: S. Barr & C. Lüdecke (eds.), History of the International Polar Years (IPYs). From Pole to Pole. - Berlin & Heidelberg : Springer Verlag. - 9783642124020
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- First of all it should be noted that the first polar year did not start from scratch. During the 50 years prior to it a lot of polar expeditions with significant research components had already taken place. Differentiation in science together with societal needs of agriculture, commerce and navigation had contributed to the existence of meteorology and magnetic studies as important disciplines. Reporting and plotting weather observations had become systematised and benefited from the development of telegraph services. Systematic observation in the upper part of the northern hemisphere was however lacking, while at the same time it was intimated that weather events in that region might have a bearing on weather variability in Europe and North America. What was new and pioneering with the first international polar year was its dedication to obtaining the first series ever of coordinated synoptic observations at multiple locations in the Arctic. Moreover, it was the first international meteorological experiment in a defined region over a specific period of observation. In addition there were two regular stations set in the far south (see below), plus a meteorological station in Port Stanley,1 while 35 temperate and tropical observatories were also engaged. Magnetic observatories all over the world were involved.
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