Jane Wess
Biographic Data
| ID | 5236684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Wess |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Wess |
| SIGNATURE | WESS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh Edinburgh UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Map Room Conversations
This article presents a summary and reflection on our ‘Map Room Conversation’ at the RGS‐IBG Annual International Conference 2024. ‘Mapping Objects’ comprised a session that sought to link together commonalities between two collections from the Royal Geographical Society's archives, both of which had been the focus of PhD research projects based at the Society (both projects were funded via the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Collaborative…
Versailles
New light on the role of instruments in exploration during the 1830s
This paper sets out a new interpretation of the agency of scientific instruments in the field. It uses Actor Network Theory as a conceptual framework, which invokes the concept of non-human agency, meaning that scientific instruments can affect outcomes and processes. It argues that the instruments taken on expeditions by travellers on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) had agency in knowledge creation simply by being present. Having …
Crookes's radiometers
The Royal Society is to exhibit its collection of original radiometers by William Crookes in the 350th anniversary re-display, thus providing an opportune moment to study the instruments in some detail. This paper attempts to trace Crookes's line of enquiry as described in a series of papers in Philosophical Transactions, linking the individual objects with the particular experiments in which they participated. From these accounts of painstaking …
Map Room Conversations
This article presents a summary and reflection on our ‘Map Room Conversation’ at the RGS‐IBG Annual International Conference 2024. ‘Mapping Objects’ comprised a session that sought to link together commonalities between two collections from the Royal Geographical Society's archives, both of which had been the focus of PhD research projects based at the Society (both projects were funded via the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Collaborative…
Crookes's radiometers
The Royal Society is to exhibit its collection of original radiometers by William Crookes in the 350th anniversary re-display, thus providing an opportune moment to study the instruments in some detail. This paper attempts to trace Crookes's line of enquiry as described in a series of papers in Philosophical Transactions, linking the individual objects with the particular experiments in which they participated. From these accounts of painstaking …
New light on the role of instruments in exploration during the 1830s
This paper sets out a new interpretation of the agency of scientific instruments in the field. It uses Actor Network Theory as a conceptual framework, which invokes the concept of non-human agency, meaning that scientific instruments can affect outcomes and processes. It argues that the instruments taken on expeditions by travellers on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) had agency in knowledge creation simply by being present. Having …
Versailles
Map Room Conversations
This article presents a summary and reflection on our ‘Map Room Conversation’ at the RGS‐IBG Annual International Conference 2024. ‘Mapping Objects’ comprised a session that sought to link together commonalities between two collections from the Royal Geographical Society's archives, both of which had been the focus of PhD research projects based at the Society (both projects were funded via the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Collaborative…
Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought (2 works) · Action (physics) (1 work) · Agency (philosophy) (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Computer security (1 work) · Conversation (1 work)