Scott Gabriel Knowle
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 262300 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Scott Gabriel Knowle |
| NOMBRES | Scott Gabriel |
| APELLIDO | Knowle |
| FIRMA | KNOWLE S G |
| AFILIACIONES | Drexel University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2868-4286 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 57 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Science Education in an Age of Unnatural Disasters
Education for Disaster Justice
Disasters reveal injustice in society; disasters create new injustices. These two intertwined ideas were the inspiration for an action research project, the first Disaster Haggyo, held across multiple locations in South Korea in the summer of 2022. The Disaster Haggyo—“haggyo” translates to “school” in Korean—was also an experiment in pedagogical methods. Science education, though not explicitly the aim of the Disaster Haggyo, infused every aspec…
The Crows of Jeju
Julia F. Irwin. Catastrophic Diplomacy
In Covid Times
This essay builds on the exciting trove of disaster social science research surfacing since the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic. It tracks the ways that both practitioners of medicine and public health, and their social science analogues, have approached the pandemic, explicitly considering the ways they reached for new concepts to explain the temporal phenomena presented by COVID-19 and its global course. The essay highlights a series of …
Coronalag
This paper introduces the idea of Coronalag, a concept derived from the experience of disaster time in 2020, and one that we hope assists in the ongoing interrogation of time as a venue for the exercise of power in a disaster. First, in introducing Coronalag, we are attentive to disparate experiences of the pandemic across spaces and communities, shared in and among those settings in real time, often through social and other virtual media. Next, …
A Slow Disaster Historical Experiment
Looking at the pandemic in the long historical view of “slow disasters” shows how it is a continuation of previous health emergencies rather than a discrete event. The tendency of politicians to prematurely declare an end to the pandemic has not helped improve public trust in health policy
Covid Mask Wearing
Disaster (continued)
The Special Investigation Commission on the 4/16 Sewol Ferry Disaster offers a case in which the process of disaster investigation becomes a part, even a continuation, of the disaster for which it is created to bring closure. Placing the investigation in a longer temporality reveals obscured historical factors that shaped the investigation and its aftermath in surprising and crucial ways. Throughout the highly politicized process of deciding to i…
Death, Life, and Longing in the Pandemicene
This essay explores the concept of the Pandemicene, a proposed elaboration of the Anthropocene tailored to account for the COVID-19 pandemic and the world it is making. The Anthropocene itself is a new geological era defined by human industrial activity as the dominant shaping force on the planet and its resources. Humans have already created the conditions for nonhuman animal to human disease spillover, exemplified by the emergence and global sp…
The Meanings of a Disaster
Reviewed by: The Meanings of a Disaster: Chernobyl and Its Afterlives in Britain and France by Karena Kalmbach Scott Gabriel Knowles (bio) The Meanings of a Disaster: Chernobyl and Its Afterlives in Britain and France By Karena Kalmbach. New York: Berghahn, 2021. Pp. 236. Disasters shape politics, even at a distance. The prototype is the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, causing incalculable, intergenerational harm in Ukraine, while simultaneously causing…
The Voyage of the Paragon
Knowledge infrastructure and research agendas for quotidian Anthropocenes
The Anthropocene requires the development of new forms of knowledge and supporting sociotechnical infrastructure. While there have been calls for both interdisciplinary and community-engaged approaches, there remains a need to develop, test, and sustain modes of Anthropocene knowledge production that effectively link people working at different scales, in different sites, with many different types of expertise. In this Perspectives piece, we desc…
Commemoration and Meaning
Disaster commemoration serves as a moment to remember victims and honor survivors. In the case of 3.11, commemoration works differently. As a slow disaster, with radiation exposure and evacuation at the center of the story, 3.11 is not yet over. This places special importance on commemoration as a moment for memory, but also for ongoing commitments to research, justice, and health interventions for survivors
Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene
Despite their seeming reluctance to engage in the politics of the now, historians have a crucial role to play as witnesses to climate change and its attendant social injustices. Climate change is a product of industrialization, but its effects are known in different geographical and temporal scales through the compilation and analysis of historical narratives. This essay explores modes of thinking about disasters and temporality, the Anthropocene…
Documenting Aftermath
Reviewed by: Documenting Aftermath: Information Infrastructures in the Wake of Disasters by Megan Finn Scott Gabriel Knowles (bio) Documenting Aftermath: Information Infrastructures in the Wake of Disasters. By Megan Finn. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. Pp. 280. Hardcover $39. A disaster is a disruption of the expected order of events, and that disruption is mediated by information technology. What we most need to know—but what the disruption of…
Disaster Research and the Second Environmental Crisis
The orbital technosphere
With a new 'technosphere' concept, Peter Haff offers a provocative reconceptualization of technology in Anthropocene, not as derivative consequence of human activity, but as a new 'quasi-autonomous' sphere of the environment that conditions human survival within the Earth System. Paying attention to the expansion of the orbital satellites in outer space, this paper suggests that technosphere analysis needs to conceptualize specific histories of t…
The Disaster Experts
Engineering Risk and Disaster
For a long time the historiographies of engineering and technology focused on technological intensification and progress across society, the economy, and government. Little specific attention was reserved in these narratives for risk, disaster, failure, and blame. However, more recently a vibrant, interdisciplinary synthesis of science and technology-focused disaster research has emerged in the form of a definable Disaster-STS, a subfield with cl…
Troubled Waters
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)-an
Deborah R. Coen. The Earthquake Observers
Journal Article Deborah R. Coen. The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter. Get access Deborah R. Coen. The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2013. Pp. 348. $35.00. Scott Gabriel Knowles Scott Gabriel Knowles Drexel University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 2, April …
Learning from Disaster
Learning from Disaster?The History of Technology and the Future of Disaster Research Scott Gabriel Knowles (bio) The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction estimates that globally from 2000 to 2012 disasters killed 1.2 million people, affected 2.9 billion others, and claimed $1.7 trillion dollars in material damage.1 The United States has moved into a "new normal" of frequent, billion-dollar hurricanes, eight of the ten costliest occur…
The Disaster Experts
This book traces the intertwined histories of disaster experts—specialists in predicting the unpredictable and managing the unmanageable—revealing how their interdisciplinary research and practices over the past century have shaped modern America
An Elusive Unity
In the 1890s Jane Addams—conscience of the social and political urban reform movements in the United States—picked a fight with the Chicago Democratic party boss Johnny Powers. Annoyed with her neighborhood's unsanitary conditions and political corruption, Addams challenged Powers directly for his seat on the Board of Aldermen. Addams symbolized the rising future of the women's suffrage movement and the coalition of reformers who would in 1912 no…
Troubled Waters
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)-an
Industrial Versailles
Eero Saarinen may be a familiar name to architectural historians for his designs for Dulles Airport, the St. Louis Arch, and other late modernist landmarks. Yet his biggest commissions were for corporate research laboratories for General Motors, IBM, and Bell Laboratories. In 1951 Fortune sent a photographer to document GM's sprawling "research campus," just beginning to take shape in suburban Detroit. The photographs capture what the editors cal…
Learning from Disaster
Learning from Disaster?The History of Technology and the Future of Disaster Research Scott Gabriel Knowles (bio) The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction estimates that globally from 2000 to 2012 disasters killed 1.2 million people, affected 2.9 billion others, and claimed $1.7 trillion dollars in material damage.1 The United States has moved into a "new normal" of frequent, billion-dollar hurricanes, eight of the ten costliest occur…
Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene
Despite their seeming reluctance to engage in the politics of the now, historians have a crucial role to play as witnesses to climate change and its attendant social injustices. Climate change is a product of industrialization, but its effects are known in different geographical and temporal scales through the compilation and analysis of historical narratives. This essay explores modes of thinking about disasters and temporality, the Anthropocene…
The orbital technosphere
With a new 'technosphere' concept, Peter Haff offers a provocative reconceptualization of technology in Anthropocene, not as derivative consequence of human activity, but as a new 'quasi-autonomous' sphere of the environment that conditions human survival within the Earth System. Paying attention to the expansion of the orbital satellites in outer space, this paper suggests that technosphere analysis needs to conceptualize specific histories of t…
Knowledge infrastructure and research agendas for quotidian Anthropocenes
The Anthropocene requires the development of new forms of knowledge and supporting sociotechnical infrastructure. While there have been calls for both interdisciplinary and community-engaged approaches, there remains a need to develop, test, and sustain modes of Anthropocene knowledge production that effectively link people working at different scales, in different sites, with many different types of expertise. In this Perspectives piece, we desc…
Engineering Risk and Disaster
For a long time the historiographies of engineering and technology focused on technological intensification and progress across society, the economy, and government. Little specific attention was reserved in these narratives for risk, disaster, failure, and blame. However, more recently a vibrant, interdisciplinary synthesis of science and technology-focused disaster research has emerged in the form of a definable Disaster-STS, a subfield with cl…
An Elusive Unity
In the 1890s Jane Addams—conscience of the social and political urban reform movements in the United States—picked a fight with the Chicago Democratic party boss Johnny Powers. Annoyed with her neighborhood's unsanitary conditions and political corruption, Addams challenged Powers directly for his seat on the Board of Aldermen. Addams symbolized the rising future of the women's suffrage movement and the coalition of reformers who would in 1912 no…
Industrial Versailles
Eero Saarinen may be a familiar name to architectural historians for his designs for Dulles Airport, the St. Louis Arch, and other late modernist landmarks. Yet his biggest commissions were for corporate research laboratories for General Motors, IBM, and Bell Laboratories. In 1951 Fortune sent a photographer to document GM's sprawling "research campus," just beginning to take shape in suburban Detroit. The photographs capture what the editors cal…
In Reply
Lessons in the rubble
The World Trade Center collapse stands as a singular event in American history. As such, it might also stand to reason that the technical investigation into the circumstances of the collapse also stands alone. Clashes over authority among powerful institutions both public and private, competition among rival experts for influence, inquiry into a disaster elevated to the status of a memorial for the dead: these are the base elements of the World T…
City in the Sky (review)
Reviewed by: City in the Sky Scott Gabriel Knowles (bio) City in the Sky. By James Glanz and Eric Lipton. New York: Times Books, 2003. Pp. 428. $26. In 1977, a 27-year-old toymaker from Queens named George H. Willig scaled the 1,362-foot South Tower of the World Trade Center. "It's a very appealing wall," said this "human fly," as he was immediately dubbed, when asked what had gotten into him. "It looked unscalable—I thought I'd like to try it" (…
Asbestos and Fire
Reviewed by: Asbestos and Fire: Technological Trade-Offs and the Body at Risk Scott Gabriel Knowles (bio) Asbestos and Fire: Technological Trade-Offs and the Body at Risk. By Rachel Maines . New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv+254. $34.95. December 7, 1946, with memories of Pearl Harbor and all the other terrors of World War II still fresh, a fire broke out at Atlanta's Winecoff Hotel, rapidly consuming the building, kill…
Defending Philadelphia
The city of Philadelphia, today, is in the midst of revamping its plans for emergency preparedness. For a city of its size, age, and infrastructural complexity, this presents a number of critical challenges. This article examines the last era in which emergency preparedness—in the form of early cold war civil defense—stood at the forefront of the city’s challenges. This article develops a historical case study of Philadelphia’s civil defense effo…
The Disaster Experts
This book traces the intertwined histories of disaster experts—specialists in predicting the unpredictable and managing the unmanageable—revealing how their interdisciplinary research and practices over the past century have shaped modern America
An Elusive Unity
In the 1890s Jane Addams—conscience of the social and political urban reform movements in the United States—picked a fight with the Chicago Democratic party boss Johnny Powers. Annoyed with her neighborhood's unsanitary conditions and political corruption, Addams challenged Powers directly for his seat on the Board of Aldermen. Addams symbolized the rising future of the women's suffrage movement and the coalition of reformers who would in 1912 no…
Engineering Risk and Disaster
For a long time the historiographies of engineering and technology focused on technological intensification and progress across society, the economy, and government. Little specific attention was reserved in these narratives for risk, disaster, failure, and blame. However, more recently a vibrant, interdisciplinary synthesis of science and technology-focused disaster research has emerged in the form of a definable Disaster-STS, a subfield with cl…
Troubled Waters
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)-an
Deborah R. Coen. The Earthquake Observers
Journal Article Deborah R. Coen. The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter. Get access Deborah R. Coen. The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2013. Pp. 348. $35.00. Scott Gabriel Knowles Scott Gabriel Knowles Drexel University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 2, April …
Learning from Disaster
Learning from Disaster?The History of Technology and the Future of Disaster Research Scott Gabriel Knowles (bio) The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction estimates that globally from 2000 to 2012 disasters killed 1.2 million people, affected 2.9 billion others, and claimed $1.7 trillion dollars in material damage.1 The United States has moved into a "new normal" of frequent, billion-dollar hurricanes, eight of the ten costliest occur…
The Disaster Experts
The orbital technosphere
With a new 'technosphere' concept, Peter Haff offers a provocative reconceptualization of technology in Anthropocene, not as derivative consequence of human activity, but as a new 'quasi-autonomous' sphere of the environment that conditions human survival within the Earth System. Paying attention to the expansion of the orbital satellites in outer space, this paper suggests that technosphere analysis needs to conceptualize specific histories of t…
Disaster Research and the Second Environmental Crisis
Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene
Despite their seeming reluctance to engage in the politics of the now, historians have a crucial role to play as witnesses to climate change and its attendant social injustices. Climate change is a product of industrialization, but its effects are known in different geographical and temporal scales through the compilation and analysis of historical narratives. This essay explores modes of thinking about disasters and temporality, the Anthropocene…
Documenting Aftermath
Reviewed by: Documenting Aftermath: Information Infrastructures in the Wake of Disasters by Megan Finn Scott Gabriel Knowles (bio) Documenting Aftermath: Information Infrastructures in the Wake of Disasters. By Megan Finn. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. Pp. 280. Hardcover $39. A disaster is a disruption of the expected order of events, and that disruption is mediated by information technology. What we most need to know—but what the disruption of…
The Voyage of the Paragon
Knowledge infrastructure and research agendas for quotidian Anthropocenes
The Anthropocene requires the development of new forms of knowledge and supporting sociotechnical infrastructure. While there have been calls for both interdisciplinary and community-engaged approaches, there remains a need to develop, test, and sustain modes of Anthropocene knowledge production that effectively link people working at different scales, in different sites, with many different types of expertise. In this Perspectives piece, we desc…
Commemoration and Meaning
Disaster commemoration serves as a moment to remember victims and honor survivors. In the case of 3.11, commemoration works differently. As a slow disaster, with radiation exposure and evacuation at the center of the story, 3.11 is not yet over. This places special importance on commemoration as a moment for memory, but also for ongoing commitments to research, justice, and health interventions for survivors
A Slow Disaster Historical Experiment
Looking at the pandemic in the long historical view of “slow disasters” shows how it is a continuation of previous health emergencies rather than a discrete event. The tendency of politicians to prematurely declare an end to the pandemic has not helped improve public trust in health policy
Covid Mask Wearing
Disaster (continued)
The Special Investigation Commission on the 4/16 Sewol Ferry Disaster offers a case in which the process of disaster investigation becomes a part, even a continuation, of the disaster for which it is created to bring closure. Placing the investigation in a longer temporality reveals obscured historical factors that shaped the investigation and its aftermath in surprising and crucial ways. Throughout the highly politicized process of deciding to i…
Death, Life, and Longing in the Pandemicene
This essay explores the concept of the Pandemicene, a proposed elaboration of the Anthropocene tailored to account for the COVID-19 pandemic and the world it is making. The Anthropocene itself is a new geological era defined by human industrial activity as the dominant shaping force on the planet and its resources. Humans have already created the conditions for nonhuman animal to human disease spillover, exemplified by the emergence and global sp…
The Meanings of a Disaster
Reviewed by: The Meanings of a Disaster: Chernobyl and Its Afterlives in Britain and France by Karena Kalmbach Scott Gabriel Knowles (bio) The Meanings of a Disaster: Chernobyl and Its Afterlives in Britain and France By Karena Kalmbach. New York: Berghahn, 2021. Pp. 236. Disasters shape politics, even at a distance. The prototype is the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, causing incalculable, intergenerational harm in Ukraine, while simultaneously causing…
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