Science, states, and salmon
Communicating through disagreement over a Cold War fault line
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5140137 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gregory Ferguson-Cradler (0000-0003-4422-2011, Princeton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1864-1880 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0308518x16658160 |
| OpenAlex | W2518439984 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
How are scientific communication and knowledge-production possible even in a politicized atmosphere pervaded by distrust and animosity? This essay takes the Soviet-Japanese Fisheries Convention of the Northwest Pacific Ocean of 1956 as a case study to consider the nature and characteristics of scientific disputes in highly politically-charged contexts outside frameworks of nation-states or international bodies. It shows that disagreements in this atmosphere were both scientific and political. What counted as evidence, reliable data, responsible resource management, and risk were contingent and deeply conditioned by geopolitics, political economies, and epistemological traditions. No purely scientific solution to the debate was possible. Methods to enable fruitful dialogue despite disagreement had to be both social and epistemic. Mathematical models of population dynamics proved particularly useful in this regard
Cold war · Convention · Distrust · Economics · Epistemology · Geography · Geopolitics · Meteorology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Positive economics · Social science · Sociology · History of Science and Medicine · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science
The Soviet economic system
Miti and the Japanese Miracle
The Fisherman's Problem
Designs on Nature
Models as Mediators
Never Pure
Knowledge and social imagery
Japanese-Russian Relations, 1907-2007
Japanese-Soviet/Russian Relations since 1945
Risk and Culture
Trust in Numbers
The Soviet Economy, an Introduction
Capitalism From Within
The Soviet Economy
Life, chance & life chances
Two Cheers for Anarchism
The Nature of Borders
Boundary-Work and the Demarcation of Science from Non-Science
Inter-Allied Conflicts and Ocean Law, 1945-53
A Social History of Truth
Leviathan and the Air-Pump
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |