Communicating the North

Scientific Practice and Canadian Postwar Identity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3159688
AutoresEdward Jones-Imhotep, Edward Jones‐Imhotep (autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Volume24
Fascículo1
Páginas144-164
Data de publicação2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoOsiris (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/605973
OpenAlexW2021036299
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas16

In the late 1940s, a group of Canadian ionospheric researchers used high‐latitude atmospheric research to carve out influence and autonomy for themselves and the nation. Echoing a broader political project that cast the North as a source of Canadian autonomy and power in the postwar world, the group focused its research on the turbulent and anomalous ionosphere above Canada, which disrupted high‐frequency communications throughout its northern regions. Those same conditions made ionograms, the key records of ionospheric research, illegible. This paper traces the attempts to demarginalize scientists, the nation, and its nature by remaking the practice of reading in ionospheric research

Aesthetics · Art · Autonomy · Ionosphere · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · History · History and Developments in Astronomy · History of Science and Natural History · Law · Polar Research and Ecology · Geology · Geophysics