TY  -  JOUR
TI  -  Networks of knowledge and power: working collaboratively on the HoNESt project
  AU -Stuart Butler
PY  -  2018
VL  - Special Issue: The Material Culture of Energy
IS  - Spring 2018
KW - British history
KW - European history
KW - interdisciplinary research
KW - nuclear history
KW - Nuclear power
KW - protest
KW - social movements

AB - Working collaboratively across national and disciplinary boundaries poses both challenges and opportunities for historians. The results of international collaborative research projects are directly shaped by their structure and the people working on them, from opening up new avenues of enquiry, to talking at cross-purposes with colleagues from different disciplines. Writing in English Historical Review, Ludmilla Jordanova introduces the concept that history and social science pursue similar questions, but do so with different ‘habits of mind’. Jordanova proposes that it is the differences between these ‘habits of mind’ which can cause confusion and misunderstanding between scholars. In this article I will outline how these different habits have come to the fore in the History of Nuclear Energy and Society (HoNESt) project, and how the project has been planned to account for them. Such differences in ‘habits of mind’ whilst working collaboratively, transnationally and inter-disciplinarily, have shaped the research pursued, prompted us to ask new questions and provided surprising and unexpected results.

N1 - These are focused on understanding societal engagement with nuclear energy, and on backcasting ideal futures. Further details can be found here: http://www.honest2020.eu/workpackages.

N1 - They can be found here: http://www.honest2020.eu/d36-short-country-reports

N1 - From the mid-1960s this became the Council for the Protection of Rural England then, since 2003, the Campaign to Protect Rural England.

PB - The Science Museum Group
 
SN -  2054-5770
LA -  eng
DO -  10.15180/180907
UR -  https://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/article/networks-of-knowledge/
T2 -  Science Museum Group Journal