Kaye, Aleksandra;
(2023)
Shaping Public Perception: Polish Illustrated Press and the Image of Polish Naturalists Working in Latin America, 1844-1885.
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
10.1002/bewi.202200047.
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Abstract
This article will investigate the ways in which Polish illustrated press contributed to communicating and reporting the work of Polish émigré naturalists working in Latin America to the Polish general public living in the Prussian, Russian and Austrian partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1844-1885. It examines the ways in which illustrations were used to shape the public's opinion about the significance of these migrants' scientific achievements. The Polish illustrated press, its authors and editors were instrumental in shaping the public's perceptions of the reach of Polish scientists, and exploring their impact on broader scientific debates, thereby situating Polish people and their work in a global context. The didactic and opinion-making role of the illustrated press was highly influential among Polish audiences during this period, at a time when the survival of Polish identity, culture, language, and education was uncertain. Illustrated weeklies were one of the vectors through which high science was made accessible to the Polish public. A study of pictures in Polish illustrated press will help to explain how they contributed towards shaping the images in the public eye of naturalists' scientific work, and discourses about science and its actors more broadly.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Shaping Public Perception: Polish Illustrated Press and the Image of Polish Naturalists Working in Latin America, 1844-1885 |
| Location: | Germany |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/bewi.202200047 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/bewi.202200047 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Authors. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte published by Wiley-VCH GmbH. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Illustrated Press, Nation-Building, Natural History, Nineteenth Century, Poland |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10168919 |
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