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The Making of Scientific Knowledge
Sensory and Bodily Practices in Field Biology
Series: Science Studies
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What does really happen between the moment when a scientist is observing a bird in the wild and publishing a scientific chart? Jana Thierfelder reveals the hidden life of field science through the 30-year archive of biologist Michael Griesser's work with Siberian jays in Sweden. Blending...
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A behind-the-scenes look at field biology, revealing how notes, tools, and bodies shape science – beyond data, into lived human practice.
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What does really happen between the moment when a scientist is observing a bird in the wild and publishing a scientific chart? Jana Thierfelder reveals the hidden life of field science through the 30-year archive of biologist Michael Griesser's work with Siberian jays in Sweden. Blending design, anthropology, and science studies, it uncovers the sketches, notes, tools, and sensory practices behind scientific knowledge. By tracing how scientific observation becomes publication, it shows that science is not just objective output - but lived, embodied, and relational work. It is about the people, places, and processes that shape knowledge. A call for more open, transdisciplinary approaches to how we understand and share science.
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ISBN: 9783837679311
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 30 October 2025
Country: Germany
Imprint: Transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly
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Width: 15.0mm
Height: 23.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 302
About the Author
Jana Thierfelder, born in 1987, is a designer and anthropologist whose work bridges the arts and sciences. She has taught in the fields of ethnography, Science and Technology Studies (STS) and New Materialisms at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste and Universität Bern. She has also coordinated several interdisciplinary projects that foster dialogue and collaboration between artistic and scientific communities. Her research draws on feminist and anthropological approaches to STS, with a focus on the sensory, bodily, material and institutional conditions under which knowledge is produced in the (natural) sciences.
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