Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
11-2020
Abstract
This special issue of History of Meteorology explores processes of making, communicating, and embedding modern meteorological knowledge in late nineteenth and early twentieth century imperial Asia. Its focus is on the institutionalisation of meteorology in key nation-building activities such as developing agricultural services, synoptic mapping to predict storms, and participation in scientific organisations and initiatives. Collectively, the essays explore the intersection of local, regional, and international scales and processes in generating new forms of state-sponsored meteorological practices and institutions, though complex multi-layered networks involving different actors and modes of information flow across multiple scales. In so doing, they reveal the dynamism and mobility of people, objects, inscriptions, information, careers, ways of knowing, and so on across space and place. They build from the paradigm that mastering the means of understanding and—significantly—making use of the weather in Asia involved working with manifold modes of meteorological knowledge drawn from multiple origins.
Keywords
History, Meteorology, Asia, Science
Discipline
Asian Studies | History | Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
History of Meteorology
Volume
9
First Page
1
Last Page
9
ISSN
1555-5763
Publisher
International Commission on the History of Meteorology (I C H M)
Embargo Period
3-30-2021
Citation
WILLIAMSON, Fiona, & JANKOVIC, Vladimir.(2020). A question of scale: Making meteorological knowledge and nation in Imperial Asia. History of Meteorology, 9, 1-9.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3280
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Additional URL
https://meteohistory.org/ojs/index.php/journal/issue/view/1
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