Janet Martin‐nielsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1458294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Martin‐nielsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Martin‐nielsen |
| SIGNATURE | NIELSEN J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3908-9976 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Undecided dreams: France in the Antarctic, 1840–2021
This paper traces France’s role in the Antarctic from 1840, when explorer Jules Dumont d’Urville discovered the slice of the white continent he named Terre Adélie, to the present day. Since World War II, Terre Adélie has been the site of a host of performances of sovereignty: the French have built bases, drawn maps, conducted scientific investigations and erected plaques. But France’s commitment to Terre Adélie has been tested and has fallen into…
Ways of knowing climate: Hubert H. Lamb and climate research in the UK
Today, numerical modelling is widely seen as the leading method of climate research. Modelling enjoys a hegemonic status in the production of climate predictions and the discussion and policy application of climate knowledge. This dominance obscures past and present debates about which types of climate knowledge are important, which epistemic standards are used to judge that knowledge, and which applications of that knowledge are considered usefu…
City under the Ice: The Closed World of Camp Century in Cold War Culture
Located on the beeline between the two nuclear superpowers, Greenland took on vital strategic importance during the early phases of the Cold War. As part of its polar strategy, the USA constructed several bases in Greenland. Camp Century, known as 'City under the Ice', was an experimental-military American city built entirely inside the ice sheet in 1959–1960. A 225-person, nuclear-powered army base, Century was the precursor for a much larger in…
The other cold war: The United States and Greenland’s ice sheet environment, 1948–1966
A forgotten social science? Creating a place for linguistics in the historical dialogue
The post-World War II era was one of great triumph for American linguists-and yet linguistics is all but absent from the historical literature on postwar social science. This paper aims to illuminate this curious situation: to understand its provenance, evaluate its merits, and contextualize it broadly. I argue that the historiographic lacuna results from two factors: (1) the opt-out of linguists from the wider American social science community, …
Redefining what matters: Syntactic explanation in American linguistics, 1955-1970
The postwar decades are well known for having brought dramatic change to American linguistics on many fronts. This paper explores an internally focused aspect of this change: conditions of explanation. The two questions at stake are, firstly, what counts as explanation in linguistics? and, secondly, how is this decided? I argue that transformational grammarians dominated the setting of explanatory criteria in 1960s American syntax, and that this …
This war for men's minds: The birth of a human science in Cold War America
The past decade has seen an explosion of work on the history of the human sciences during the Cold War. This work, however, does not engage with one of the leading human sciences of the period: linguistics. This article begins to rectify this knowledge gap by investigating the influence of linguistics and its concept of study, language, on American public, political and intellectual life during the postwar and early Cold War years. I show that la…
The Very Model of a Modern Engineer: Status, Education, and the Engineering Institute of Canada, 1925-1932
Between 1925 and 1932, the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC)—one of the oldest professional organizations for engineers in Canada—advocated vigorously for the inclusion of cultural and communications courses in university engineering curricula. Motivated by the perceived inferiority of engineering in comparison to the medical and law professions, this effort led to an important reconsideration of the social status and professional identity of…
South over the wires: Hydro-electricity exports from Canada, 1900–1925
This war for men's minds: The birth of a human science in Cold War America
The past decade has seen an explosion of work on the history of the human sciences during the Cold War. This work, however, does not engage with one of the leading human sciences of the period: linguistics. This article begins to rectify this knowledge gap by investigating the influence of linguistics and its concept of study, language, on American public, political and intellectual life during the postwar and early Cold War years. I show that la…
A forgotten social science? Creating a place for linguistics in the historical dialogue
The post-World War II era was one of great triumph for American linguists-and yet linguistics is all but absent from the historical literature on postwar social science. This paper aims to illuminate this curious situation: to understand its provenance, evaluate its merits, and contextualize it broadly. I argue that the historiographic lacuna results from two factors: (1) the opt-out of linguists from the wider American social science community, …
City under the Ice: The Closed World of Camp Century in Cold War Culture
Located on the beeline between the two nuclear superpowers, Greenland took on vital strategic importance during the early phases of the Cold War. As part of its polar strategy, the USA constructed several bases in Greenland. Camp Century, known as 'City under the Ice', was an experimental-military American city built entirely inside the ice sheet in 1959–1960. A 225-person, nuclear-powered army base, Century was the precursor for a much larger in…
The other cold war: The United States and Greenland’s ice sheet environment, 1948–1966
Ways of knowing climate: Hubert H. Lamb and climate research in the UK
Today, numerical modelling is widely seen as the leading method of climate research. Modelling enjoys a hegemonic status in the production of climate predictions and the discussion and policy application of climate knowledge. This dominance obscures past and present debates about which types of climate knowledge are important, which epistemic standards are used to judge that knowledge, and which applications of that knowledge are considered usefu…
Undecided dreams: France in the Antarctic, 1840–2021
This paper traces France’s role in the Antarctic from 1840, when explorer Jules Dumont d’Urville discovered the slice of the white continent he named Terre Adélie, to the present day. Since World War II, Terre Adélie has been the site of a host of performances of sovereignty: the French have built bases, drawn maps, conducted scientific investigations and erected plaques. But France’s commitment to Terre Adélie has been tested and has fallen into…
The Very Model of a Modern Engineer: Status, Education, and the Engineering Institute of Canada, 1925-1932
Between 1925 and 1932, the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC)—one of the oldest professional organizations for engineers in Canada—advocated vigorously for the inclusion of cultural and communications courses in university engineering curricula. Motivated by the perceived inferiority of engineering in comparison to the medical and law professions, this effort led to an important reconsideration of the social status and professional identity of…
South over the wires: Hydro-electricity exports from Canada, 1900–1925
Redefining what matters: Syntactic explanation in American linguistics, 1955-1970
The postwar decades are well known for having brought dramatic change to American linguistics on many fronts. This paper explores an internally focused aspect of this change: conditions of explanation. The two questions at stake are, firstly, what counts as explanation in linguistics? and, secondly, how is this decided? I argue that transformational grammarians dominated the setting of explanatory criteria in 1960s American syntax, and that this …
This war for men's minds: The birth of a human science in Cold War America
The past decade has seen an explosion of work on the history of the human sciences during the Cold War. This work, however, does not engage with one of the leading human sciences of the period: linguistics. This article begins to rectify this knowledge gap by investigating the influence of linguistics and its concept of study, language, on American public, political and intellectual life during the postwar and early Cold War years. I show that la…
The other cold war: The United States and Greenland’s ice sheet environment, 1948–1966
A forgotten social science? Creating a place for linguistics in the historical dialogue
The post-World War II era was one of great triumph for American linguists-and yet linguistics is all but absent from the historical literature on postwar social science. This paper aims to illuminate this curious situation: to understand its provenance, evaluate its merits, and contextualize it broadly. I argue that the historiographic lacuna results from two factors: (1) the opt-out of linguists from the wider American social science community, …
City under the Ice: The Closed World of Camp Century in Cold War Culture
Located on the beeline between the two nuclear superpowers, Greenland took on vital strategic importance during the early phases of the Cold War. As part of its polar strategy, the USA constructed several bases in Greenland. Camp Century, known as 'City under the Ice', was an experimental-military American city built entirely inside the ice sheet in 1959–1960. A 225-person, nuclear-powered army base, Century was the precursor for a much larger in…
Ways of knowing climate: Hubert H. Lamb and climate research in the UK
Today, numerical modelling is widely seen as the leading method of climate research. Modelling enjoys a hegemonic status in the production of climate predictions and the discussion and policy application of climate knowledge. This dominance obscures past and present debates about which types of climate knowledge are important, which epistemic standards are used to judge that knowledge, and which applications of that knowledge are considered usefu…
Undecided dreams: France in the Antarctic, 1840–2021
This paper traces France’s role in the Antarctic from 1840, when explorer Jules Dumont d’Urville discovered the slice of the white continent he named Terre Adélie, to the present day. Since World War II, Terre Adélie has been the site of a host of performances of sovereignty: the French have built bases, drawn maps, conducted scientific investigations and erected plaques. But France’s commitment to Terre Adélie has been tested and has fallen into…
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