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Stations in the Field - A History of Place-Based Animal Research, 1870-1930 (Paperback)
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Stations in the Field - A History of Place-Based Animal Research, 1870-1930 (Paperback)
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When we think of sites of animal research that symbolize modernity,
the first places that come to mind are grand research institutes in
cities and near universities that house the latest in equipment and
technologies, not the surroundings of the bird's nest, the octopus'
garden in the sea, or the parts of inland lakes in which freshwater
plankton reside. Yet during the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, a group of zoologists began establishing novel, indeed
modern ways of studying nature, propagating what present-day
ecologists describe as place-based research. Raf De Bont's Stations
in the Field focuses on the early history of biological field
stations and the role these played in the rise of zoological
place-based research. Beginning in the 1870s, a growing number of
biological field stations were founded-first in Europe and later
elsewhere around the world - and thousands of zoologists received
their training and performed their research at these sites. Through
case studies, De Bont examines the material and social context in
which field stations arose, the actual research that was produced
in these places, the scientific claims that were developed there,
and the rhetorical strategies that were deployed to convince others
that these claims made sense. From the life of parasitic
invertebrates in northern France and freshwater plankton in
Schleswig-Holstein, to migratory birds in East Prussia and pest
insects in Belgium, De Bont's book is a fascinating tour through
the history of studying nature in nature.
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