Rentetzi Maria, Germanese Donatella
Chair of Science, Technology and Gender Studies, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.
Department 1, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany.
Ann Sci. 2023 Jan;80(1):1-9. doi: 10.1080/00033790.2023.2166114.
Despite the increasing interest in science exhibitions, there has been hardly any work on mobile science exhibitions and their role within science diplomacy - a gap this thematic issue is meant to fill. Atomic mobile exhibitions are seen here not only as cultural sites but as multifaceted strategic processes of transnational nuclear history. We move beyond the bipolar Cold War history that portrays propagandist science exhibitions as instances of a one-way communication employed to promote the virtues of the two major and conflicting political powers. Instead, follows mobile atomic exhibitions as they move across national borders and around the world, functioning as spaces for diplomatic encounters. Exhibitions play a vital role not only in the production of knowledge and the formation of political worldviews but also as assets in diplomatic negotiations and as promoters of a new worldview in which nuclear stands at the centre. They are powerful , that is systems of representations that capture the diplomatic processes in action and make the nitty-gritty details of international relations visible. This issue seeks to trace the multiple and often contradictory meanings that mobile exhibitions took on for various actors.
尽管人们对科学展览的兴趣日益浓厚，但关于流动科学展览及其在科学外交中的作用却几乎没有任何研究——而本专题正是旨在填补这一空白。在这里，原子流动展览不仅被视为文化场所，而且被视为跨国核历史的多方面战略进程。我们超越了两极冷战历史，那种历史将宣传性科学展览描绘成用于宣扬两个主要且相互冲突的政治大国优点的单向传播实例。相反，我们追踪流动原子展览跨越国界和在世界各地的行程，将其视为外交交流的空间。展览不仅在知识的产生和政治世界观的形成中发挥着至关重要的作用，而且在外交谈判中作为资产以及作为以核为核心的新世界观的推动者发挥着重要作用。它们是强大的表征系统，即能够捕捉实际外交进程并使国际关系的具体细节可见的系统。本期专题旨在追溯流动展览对不同行为体所具有的多重且往往相互矛盾的意义。
