Geological (Dis)orientations

Training Sites, Storytelling, and Fieldwork in the Chilean Andes

Bibliographic Data

ID5337903
AuthorsMartin Fonck (0000-0001-8616-2251, Technical University of Munich, corresponding author)
Year2024
Publication date2024-10-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/01622439241292092
OpenAlexW4403850849
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited32

This article explores place-based geological storytelling by examining the role of training sites in the geoscientific learning process. Based on ethnographic work conducted with geoscientists in the Liquiñe-Ofqui Geological Fault, I illustrate how sites located in the Chilean Andes have historically been used to practice geoscientific storytelling and to learn the language and theory of plate tectonics. Building on scholarship in STS and the history of science which has documented how plate tectonics and the associated paradigm shift changed the authority of field geology, I show how, rather than replacing fieldwork, place-based observations still play a central role in helping students gain a professional vision in geology. Reflecting on fieldwork training sites and geoscientists' negotiated attempts to tell geological stories, this article speaks to the question: from where are the stories of the earth told

Archaeology · Art · Earth science · Geography · Narrative · Storytelling · Training (meteorology · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Geology

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