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'Big Science' is a broad epithet that can be associated with research projects as different as the Manhattan Project, the Hubble Telescope- construction, and the CERN-establishment in Geneva.
While the science produced by these projects is vastly different, they have in common the fact that they all involve huge budgets, big facilities, complex instrumentation, years of planning, and large multidisciplinary teams of researchers.
In Legitimizing ESS the authors examine the complexity of the cultural, social, and political processes from which and in which Big Science develops. They do so by focusing upon the planning and development of the European Spallation Source, ESS, that is to be located in Lund in southern Sweden. Together, the chapters represent a variety of perspectives to highlight the complexity of the processes that are integral to Big Science. Thus, this volume examines the very different roles Big Science may be given in different contexts: locally, regionally, nationally and internationally, as well as historically.
Legitimizing ESS is based on the research of scholars based at Lund University from the disciplines of archive and library sciences, art history and visual studies, ethnology, gender studies, geography, history of ideas and sciences, media and communication, philosophy, and policy research.
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Big Science ar ett brett begrepp som kan forknippas med sa skilda forskningsforeteelser som Manhattanprojektet, Hubbleteleskopet och CERN. Trots att den vetenskap som bedrivs vid dessa anlaggningar ar vasensskild har de det gemensamt att de kraver stora resurser och stora anlaggningar liksom sofistikerade och dyra instrument, stora tvarvetenskapliga forskarlag och manga ars planering.
I Legitimizing ESS undersoker forfattarna de komplicerade kulturella, sociala och politiska processer som ligger till grund for uppkomsten och utvecklingen av Big Science. De gor det genom att fokusera pa forberedelserna av European Spallation Source, ESS, som planeras att byggas i Lund. Tillsammans representerar kapitlen olika perspektiv som frilagger hur olika processer samverkar i skapandet av Big Science. Denna bok handlar med andra ord om de olika roller som Big Science kan spela i olika sammanhang: lokalt, regionalt, nationellt och internationellt saval som historiskt.
Legitimizing ESS ar baserad pa vetenskapligt arbete av forskare vid Lunds universitet fran amnesomraden som biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap, konsthistoria och visuella studier, etnologi, genusvetenskap, ekonomisk geografi, idehistoria, media- och kommunikationsvetenskap, forskningspolitiska studier samt filosofi.
