New article: Dominik Hünniger: Visible Labour? Productive Forces and Imaginaries of Participation in European Insect Studies
7 June 2021
The practice of early modern natural history depended on the collective collecting activities of a great variety of people. Among them, artisans played a major role in acquiring and distributing knowledge about the natural world and they contributed significantly to the scholarly labour in natural history. This distributed labour was both acknowledged by contemporaries as well as hidden from sight, reflecting the period's dominant norms for class and gender. This article, published in »Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte«, analyses the diversity of the "productive forces" in insect studies as they changed over time and it reconstructs what I will call the social imaginaries of participation.