A Political History of Big Science

The Other Europe
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-50051-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 241 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 346 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology

This book investigates the political history of Big Science in Europe in the late twentieth century and the early twenty-first century, characterised by the founding histories of two collaborative, single-sited facilities namely the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France and the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser (European XFEL) in Schenefeld, Germany. Under the heading of
the other Europe
, this book presents the history and politics of European Big Science as an alternative road to (Western) European integration besides the mainstream political integration process of the European Economic Community and the European Union. It shows that Big Science has a role to play in European politics and policymaking and that the crucial and unavoidable symbiosis between science, technology and politics brings the creation of Big Science projects back to geopolitical realities.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cramer, Katharina C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction and Framework .- Chapter 2: Historical Viewpoints on Collaborative Large-Scale Research in Europe.- Chapter 3: Establishing the First Collaborative Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Europe: The Founding History of the ESRF (1977-1988).- Chapter 4: Founding the European XFEL: The Establishment of a Collaborative Free-Electron Laser, 1992-2009.- Chapter 5: Conclusion and Outlook.

Über Autor(innen)

Katharina C. Cramer is a historian, specialised in the history and politics of science and technology as well as the power of knowledge and innovation in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She publishes on the topics of Big Science, research infrastructures and the politics of science, technology and knowledge.