Jeremy Vetter
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 538474 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jeremy Vetter |
| NOMBRES | Jeremy |
| APELLIDO | Vetter |
| FIRMA | VETTER J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Arizona |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Immaculate Conception of Data
This slim, critical, social science study uses ethnographic methods of participant observation and interviewing to explore the brave new world of big data in agriculture. Although it is not notably historical in its approach, this book may be of interest to agricultural historians who want to know more about recent developments at the intersection of food and agriculture with the data revolution. Its author, Kelly Bronson, is a science and techno…
The History of Fieldwork
Since the history of fieldwork emerged as a self-conscious area of study within the history of science, especially during the last quarter century, it has expanded its focus on place and practice into an ever wider range of disciplines, social and environmental settings, scales, analytical frameworks, and connections with adjacent disciplines and sub-disciplines. After reviewing some of the foundational scholarly works on the history of scientifi…
Knowing the Great Plains Weather
On the US Great Plains frontier in the late nineteenth century, perhaps no area of scientific knowledge was more contested than the weather, which connected with debates around the long-term climate of this semiarid region. Observation of the weather was shared across the divide between scientists and lay people, illustrating an early historical predecessor of enlisting citizen scientists to help in the production of knowledge. Situating this exa…
Shared ground
Recent years have witnessed a significant expansion in the number of studies positioned at the intersection of the history of science and environmental history. Although these studies continue to navigate lingering methodological tensions, collectively they underscore the promise of a disciplinary cross-fertilization that proved largely latent for the first quarter century or more following environmental history's emergence as a discrete discipli…
This Land Is Your Land
Michael J. Lannoo is a professor of anatomy and cell biology with considerable experience in field research. His latest book, This Land Is Your Land, offers an insider's history of American field biology, but with a longer-term perspective on its intellectual and institutional development rather than more recent reflections based on the author's career. Lannoo presents a linear sequence of fields, building on one another like a layer cake: natura…
Wired into Nature
Reviewed by: Wired into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontierby James Schwoch Jeremy Vetter (bio) Wired into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier. By James Schwoch. Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018. Pp. 264. Paperback $24.95 While the building of the transcontinental railroad across the western United States has been the subject of an impressive number of books, the transcontinental telegraph h…
Explaining Structural Constraints on Lay Participation in Field Science
Using an example from the author's work on field science in the American West in the early twentieth century, this essay considers how structural constraints on the interactions between scientists and lay people in the field might be explained. Not only is there unusually abundant source evidence about a local ranching family living near a paleontological field site, but the Cooks were especially assertive in attempting to exert influence. This e…
Experiential and cosmopolitan knowledge
Roundtable
Writing Arizona, 1912-2012
How does writing about a place shape how people come to understand it, both culturally and environmentally? In Writing Arizona, Kim Engel-Pearson addresses this question by surveying a broad swathe of writings ranging from newspapers, magazines, and government documents to novels, poems, and personal narratives. As Engel-Pearson acknowledges, Arizona is a state with ample diversity in its cultures and environments, so this is no small task. In ch…
Introduction
Why and how have lay people participated in scientific observation? And on what terms have they collaborated with experts and professionals? We have become accustomed to the involvement of lay observers in the practice of many branches of science, including both the natural and human sciences, usually as subordinates to experts. The current surge of interest in this phenomenon, as well as in the closely related topic of how expertise has been con…
Lay Observers, Telegraph Lines, and Kansas Weather
ArgumentThis paper examines the field network - linking together lay observers in geographically distributed locations with a central figure who aggregated their locally produced observations into more general, regional knowledge - as a historically emergent mode of knowledge production. After discussing the significance of weather knowledge as a vital domain in which field networks have operated, it describes and analyzes how a more robust and s…
Knowing Global Environments
Capitalizing on Grass
While concepts of environmental accounting and sustainability may have emerged originally in the context of European forests, they would later be extended to many other places, including the vast American grasslands. To be accountable in the larger political economy, observations and experiences of the natural world had to be rendered in a form that could circulate in an increasingly global, cosmopolitan science. Local, experiential knowledge was…
The unmaking of an anthropologist
This essay follows Alfred Russel Wallace back from the field in 1862, tracing how his views on human evolution developed after his field experiences in the East Indies and how he articulated them within the social structure of British science during the 1860s. It analyses his involvement in the metropolitan scientific institutions dedicated to the study of man, the Ethnological Society of London and its breakaway counterpart, the Anthropological …
Cowboys, Scientists, and Fossils
Even as the division between professional scientists and laypeople became sharper by the end of the nineteenth century, the collaboration of local people remained important in scientific fieldwork, especially in sciences such as vertebrate paleontology that required long-term extractive access to research sites. In the North American West, the competition between museums and universities for the best fossil quarry sites involved negotiations with…
Field science in the Railroad Era
Focusing on the field sciences during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this paper analyzes how railroads served as tools of knowledge empire in the American West. The political economy of this region, shaped by the rise of Populism and capitalist development with federal and state government support, provided the context for cooperation between field scientists and railroad companies. Early on, the displacement of American India…
How it came to be
Introduction
Why and how have lay people participated in scientific observation? And on what terms have they collaborated with experts and professionals? We have become accustomed to the involvement of lay observers in the practice of many branches of science, including both the natural and human sciences, usually as subordinates to experts. The current surge of interest in this phenomenon, as well as in the closely related topic of how expertise has been con…
Lay Observers, Telegraph Lines, and Kansas Weather
ArgumentThis paper examines the field network - linking together lay observers in geographically distributed locations with a central figure who aggregated their locally produced observations into more general, regional knowledge - as a historically emergent mode of knowledge production. After discussing the significance of weather knowledge as a vital domain in which field networks have operated, it describes and analyzes how a more robust and s…
Cowboys, Scientists, and Fossils
Even as the division between professional scientists and laypeople became sharper by the end of the nineteenth century, the collaboration of local people remained important in scientific fieldwork, especially in sciences such as vertebrate paleontology that required long-term extractive access to research sites. In the North American West, the competition between museums and universities for the best fossil quarry sites involved negotiations with…
Roundtable
The unmaking of an anthropologist
This essay follows Alfred Russel Wallace back from the field in 1862, tracing how his views on human evolution developed after his field experiences in the East Indies and how he articulated them within the social structure of British science during the 1860s. It analyses his involvement in the metropolitan scientific institutions dedicated to the study of man, the Ethnological Society of London and its breakaway counterpart, the Anthropological …
Shared ground
Recent years have witnessed a significant expansion in the number of studies positioned at the intersection of the history of science and environmental history. Although these studies continue to navigate lingering methodological tensions, collectively they underscore the promise of a disciplinary cross-fertilization that proved largely latent for the first quarter century or more following environmental history's emergence as a discrete discipli…
Capitalizing on Grass
While concepts of environmental accounting and sustainability may have emerged originally in the context of European forests, they would later be extended to many other places, including the vast American grasslands. To be accountable in the larger political economy, observations and experiences of the natural world had to be rendered in a form that could circulate in an increasingly global, cosmopolitan science. Local, experiential knowledge was…
Field science in the Railroad Era
Focusing on the field sciences during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this paper analyzes how railroads served as tools of knowledge empire in the American West. The political economy of this region, shaped by the rise of Populism and capitalist development with federal and state government support, provided the context for cooperation between field scientists and railroad companies. Early on, the displacement of American India…
How it came to be
How it came to be
Cowboys, Scientists, and Fossils
Even as the division between professional scientists and laypeople became sharper by the end of the nineteenth century, the collaboration of local people remained important in scientific fieldwork, especially in sciences such as vertebrate paleontology that required long-term extractive access to research sites. In the North American West, the competition between museums and universities for the best fossil quarry sites involved negotiations with…
Field science in the Railroad Era
Focusing on the field sciences during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this paper analyzes how railroads served as tools of knowledge empire in the American West. The political economy of this region, shaped by the rise of Populism and capitalist development with federal and state government support, provided the context for cooperation between field scientists and railroad companies. Early on, the displacement of American India…
The unmaking of an anthropologist
This essay follows Alfred Russel Wallace back from the field in 1862, tracing how his views on human evolution developed after his field experiences in the East Indies and how he articulated them within the social structure of British science during the 1860s. It analyses his involvement in the metropolitan scientific institutions dedicated to the study of man, the Ethnological Society of London and its breakaway counterpart, the Anthropological …
Knowing Global Environments
Capitalizing on Grass
While concepts of environmental accounting and sustainability may have emerged originally in the context of European forests, they would later be extended to many other places, including the vast American grasslands. To be accountable in the larger political economy, observations and experiences of the natural world had to be rendered in a form that could circulate in an increasingly global, cosmopolitan science. Local, experiential knowledge was…
Introduction
Why and how have lay people participated in scientific observation? And on what terms have they collaborated with experts and professionals? We have become accustomed to the involvement of lay observers in the practice of many branches of science, including both the natural and human sciences, usually as subordinates to experts. The current surge of interest in this phenomenon, as well as in the closely related topic of how expertise has been con…
Lay Observers, Telegraph Lines, and Kansas Weather
ArgumentThis paper examines the field network - linking together lay observers in geographically distributed locations with a central figure who aggregated their locally produced observations into more general, regional knowledge - as a historically emergent mode of knowledge production. After discussing the significance of weather knowledge as a vital domain in which field networks have operated, it describes and analyzes how a more robust and s…
Experiential and cosmopolitan knowledge
Roundtable
Writing Arizona, 1912-2012
How does writing about a place shape how people come to understand it, both culturally and environmentally? In Writing Arizona, Kim Engel-Pearson addresses this question by surveying a broad swathe of writings ranging from newspapers, magazines, and government documents to novels, poems, and personal narratives. As Engel-Pearson acknowledges, Arizona is a state with ample diversity in its cultures and environments, so this is no small task. In ch…
Knowing the Great Plains Weather
On the US Great Plains frontier in the late nineteenth century, perhaps no area of scientific knowledge was more contested than the weather, which connected with debates around the long-term climate of this semiarid region. Observation of the weather was shared across the divide between scientists and lay people, illustrating an early historical predecessor of enlisting citizen scientists to help in the production of knowledge. Situating this exa…
Shared ground
Recent years have witnessed a significant expansion in the number of studies positioned at the intersection of the history of science and environmental history. Although these studies continue to navigate lingering methodological tensions, collectively they underscore the promise of a disciplinary cross-fertilization that proved largely latent for the first quarter century or more following environmental history's emergence as a discrete discipli…
This Land Is Your Land
Michael J. Lannoo is a professor of anatomy and cell biology with considerable experience in field research. His latest book, This Land Is Your Land, offers an insider's history of American field biology, but with a longer-term perspective on its intellectual and institutional development rather than more recent reflections based on the author's career. Lannoo presents a linear sequence of fields, building on one another like a layer cake: natura…
Wired into Nature
Reviewed by: Wired into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontierby James Schwoch Jeremy Vetter (bio) Wired into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier. By James Schwoch. Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018. Pp. 264. Paperback $24.95 While the building of the transcontinental railroad across the western United States has been the subject of an impressive number of books, the transcontinental telegraph h…
Explaining Structural Constraints on Lay Participation in Field Science
Using an example from the author's work on field science in the American West in the early twentieth century, this essay considers how structural constraints on the interactions between scientists and lay people in the field might be explained. Not only is there unusually abundant source evidence about a local ranching family living near a paleontological field site, but the Cooks were especially assertive in attempting to exert influence. This e…
The History of Fieldwork
Since the history of fieldwork emerged as a self-conscious area of study within the history of science, especially during the last quarter century, it has expanded its focus on place and practice into an ever wider range of disciplines, social and environmental settings, scales, analytical frameworks, and connections with adjacent disciplines and sub-disciplines. After reviewing some of the foundational scholarly works on the history of scientifi…
The Immaculate Conception of Data
This slim, critical, social science study uses ethnographic methods of participant observation and interviewing to explore the brave new world of big data in agriculture. Although it is not notably historical in its approach, this book may be of interest to agricultural historians who want to know more about recent developments at the intersection of food and agriculture with the data revolution. Its author, Kelly Bronson, is a science and techno…
History (11 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Archaeology (9 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · History of Science and Natural History (8 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Environmental ethics (7 obras) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (7 obras) · American Environmental and Regional History (6 obras) · Field (mathematics (6 obras)