Aging in digital
Simulation and succession in Canadian forestry research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2261466 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tom Özden‐schilling (0000-0002-6809-0589, Department of Anthropology Johns Hopkins University Mergenthaler Hall, Room 459 3400 N. Charles St. Baltimore MD 21218, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-50 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/amet.13004 |
| OpenAlex | W3156316853 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 40 |
In British Columbia, Canada, aging forestry scientists struggle to pass on long-term projects to younger colleagues who may never arrive. Thanks to the government of British Columbia's radical downsizing of its forestry research institutions, many of these scientists have been forced to reconceptualize the meaning of "succession." Central to this process are computer-based simulations of forest change, which have become critical sites of relationality for scientists struggling to sustain key experiments and their attending intellectual legacies. Digital simulations have increasingly come to mediate the expectations and shared dependencies that constitute scientific authorship. As a result, contemporary processes of institutional reproduction can depend less on deliberate enactments of agency than on subtler processes of detachment. To have their epistemic authority recognized by funders, apprentices, and collaborators, aging scientists must increasingly foreground their vulnerabilities and prepare for the possibility of their own erasure. [expertise,aging,simulation,forestry,environmental science,British Columbia,Canada,North America
Agency (philosophy · Apprenticeship · Archaeology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Government (linguistics · Meaning (existential · Political science · Process (computing · Reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Computer Science · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Ecology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |