The Politics of International Soil Science in the Early 20th Century

20世纪初国际土壤科学的政治

基本信息

批准号：
EP/Y029151/1
负责人：
Michael Heffernan
金额：
$ 23.84万
依托单位：
University of Nottingham
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2023 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY029151%2F1
关键词：
Politics International Soil Science Early

项目摘要

This interdisciplinary project explores undiscovered connections between international soil science and politics in the first part of the 20th century and offers the first systematic investigation of the topic. The International Society of Soil Science (ISSS) is reaching its hundred-year centenary in 2024, which gives a specific relevance to this project, as well as the raising importance of understanding processes of soils in coping with global environmental crises nowadays. The project will investigate the history of the internationalization of soil science as an inherently geographical and political process, with a specific focus on the history of ISSS, the first international soil science conferences, and the agency of soil scientists. It will examine contemporary published sources and archival materials, combining methods from cultural and historical geography, history of science and environmental history. By doing so, it aims to examine the translations and circulation of internationally accepted methods of the investigation and mapping of soils, highlighting how national scientific agendas and agricultural development projects were deeply embedded in colonial and statebuilding politics. The project aims to reflect on the paradoxical situation that the internationalization of soil science, which was purportedly built on an apolitical scientific understanding of soil, coincided with deep divisions of European and global politics, struggles for land and often, the politicization of soil. The unique combination of my mentor's, Prof. Michael Heffernan's expertise in history of geography and internationalism, and my own interdisciplinary knowledge in historical human-environment interactions and soil science will bring new approaches to the interface of the history of international science, politics and global environmental history. Completing this project will also provide me a launchpad to a successful and stable career in academia.

这个跨学科的项目探讨了20世纪第一叶国际土壤科学与政治之间未发现的联系，并对该主题进行了首次系统调查。国际土壤科学学会（ISS）将于2024年达到百年纪念，这与该项目具有特定的相关性，以及在当今应对全球环境危机中了解土壤过程的重要性。该项目将调查土壤科学国际化的历史，作为固有的地理和政治过程，特别关注ISS的历史，第一次国际土壤科学会议和土壤科学家的机构。它将研究当代出版的资料和档案材料，结合了文化和历史地理学，科学与环境历史的历史。通过这样做，它旨在研究土壤调查和映射国际接受方法的翻译和流通，并强调如何将民族科学议程和农业发展项目深深地融入殖民和国家建筑政治中。该项目的目的是反思矛盾的情况：据称是基于对土壤的非政治科学理解的土壤科学的国际化，与欧洲和全球政治的深层分歧相吻合，为土地而奋斗，经常是土壤政治化。我的导师，迈克尔·赫弗南（Michael Heffernan）教授在地理和国际主义史上的专业知识以及我自己在历史人类环境互动和土壤科学方面的跨学科知识的独特结合将为国际科学，政治和全球环境历史的界面带来新的方法。完成该项目还将为我提供在学术界成功稳定的职业的发射台。