Ellis, H.L. orcid.org/0000-0001-8571-0340 (2017) Collaboration and knowledge exchange between scholars in Britain and the empire, 1830–1914. In: Jöns, H., Meusberger, P. and Heffernan, M., (eds.) Mobilities of Knowledge. Knowledge and Space, 10 . Springer , Cham , pp. 141-155. ISBN 978-3-319-44653-0
Abstract
In recent years there has been a growing interest among historians in the British Empire as a space of knowledge production and circulation. Much of this work assumes that scholarly cooperation and collaboration between individuals and institutions within the Empire had the effect (and often also the aim) of strengthening both imperial ties and the idea of empire. This chapter argues, however, that many examples of scholarly travel, exchange, and collaboration were undertaken with very different goals in mind. In particular, it highlights the continuing importance of an ideal of scientific internationalism, which stressed the benefits of scholarship for the whole of humanity and prioritized the needs and goals of individual academic and scientific disciplines. As the chapter shows, some scholars even went on to develop nuanced critiques of the imperial project while using the very structures of empire to further their own individual, disciplinary and institutional goals.
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Keywords: | Collaboration; Knowledge exchange; Empire; Imperial networks; British Empire; Republic of letters; Geographies of knowledge; Scientific internationalism; Spatial mobility of knowledge; Science |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Education (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 25 Jan 2018 15:53 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jan 2018 15:53 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44654-7_8 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer |
Series Name: | Knowledge and Space |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/978-3-319-44654-7_8 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:126495 |