Journal Centaurus, vol. 67.4 (2025)

Centaurus. Journal of the European Society for the History of Science, Volume 67 (2025), Issue 4

  • Pages: 248 p.
  • Size:178 x 254 mm
  • Illustrations:12 b/w, 15 col., 3 tables b/w.
  • Language(s):English
  • Publication Year:2026


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  • ISBN: 978-2-503-61543-1
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Special Issue: Academic Workspaces as Sites of Production, Adaptation, And Circulation of Knowledge
Edited by Thomas Brandt, Mattias Bäckström, Annette Lykknes, and Magne Brekke Rabben

Academic workspaces as sites of production, adaptation, and circulation of knowledge: An introduction

Thomas Brandt, Mattias Bäckström, Annette Lykknes, and Magne Brekke Rabben

University campuses, city–university interaction and the circulation of knowledge in Eastern Finland, 1960–1990
Mikko Kohvakka

Rationalization by diverging rationalities: Building research in flexible laboratories and streamlined educational factories in Uppsala, Sweden, 1960–1980
Daniel Normark, Lars Fälting, and Martina Wallberg

On building an academic town in a multiversity: Community and environment in the Dragvoll University Centre and the University of Trondheim in Norway in the 1960s and 1970s
Mattias Bäckström

Professor’s personal space: Robert Summer, spatial privacy, and the architecture of academic community (1957–1974)
Joeri Bruyninckx

Visions of the academic workspace: Ruth Hubbard and the gendered dimensions of space in the Harvard biological laboratories
Jenna Tonn

Professional identity on display: Materiality, spatiality, and the professor’s changing role and identity as seen through photographs of academic offices in Trondheim
Magne Brekke Rabben and Annette Lykknes

Book Reviews