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Invisible Labour in Modern Science
Invisible Labour in Modern Science
Invisible Labour in Modern Science is about the people who are concealed, eclipsed, or anonymised in accounts of scientific research. Many scientific workers—including translators, activists, archivists, technicians, curators, and ethics review boards—are absent in publications and omitted from stories of discovery. The emerging and leading scholars writing in this book negotiate such silences and omissions to reveal how invisibilities have shaped twentieth and twenty-first century science.
Invisibility can be unjust; it can also be powerful. What is invisible to whom, and when does this matter? How do power structures built on hierarchies of race, gender, class and nation frame what can be seen? And for those observing science: When does the recovery of the ‘invisible’ serve social justice and when does it invade privacy? Tackling head-on the silences and dilemmas that can haunt historians, this book transforms invisibility into a guide for exploring the moral sensibilities and politics of science and its history.
Articles
Articles
2026 “Making Queer Kin in the Labor of the Greenhouse,” Science, Technology & Human Values January: 1-20.
2024 “No Thanks: Acknowledgment in the Journals of the History of Science Society,” co-authored with Laura Stark Isis 115(3): 559–572.
2024 “The Vault Is a Bunker, The Arsenal Are Seeds,” LA+: Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture 19: 44-51.
2023 “Lively Stasis. Care and Routine in Living Collections of Flies and Seeds” co-authored with Jenny Bangham Centaurus, 65 (2) 337–363. DOI
2023 “Nothing Comes Without its Story” American Anthropologist DOI
2023 “(Un)making labor invisible: A syllabus” co-authored with Patrick Anthony, Juliana Broad, Zachary Dorner, Judith Kaplan and Duygu Yıldırım History of Science, 61 (4) 608–624. DOI
2023 “Introduction: Domestication of War,” co-authored with Astrida Neimanis, Diana Pardo Pedraza, and Jennifer Terry, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 9(1): 1-15. DOI
2022 “Stringing, Reconnecting, and Breaking the Colonial ‘Daisy Chain’: From Botanic Garden to Seed Bank,” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience DOI
2021 “Seed: Gendered Vernaculars and Relational Possibilities,“ co-authored with Susannah Chapman Feminist Anthropology, 3 (1) 1-9. DOI
2020 “The Cosmopolitics of Food Futures: Imagining Nature, Law, and Apocalypse,” co-authored with Jocelyn Bosse and Susannah Chapman, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 34 (6) 1-19. DOI
2019 “Creative Practices of Care: The Subjectivity, Agency and Affective Labor of Preparing Seeds for Long-term Banking,” Culture, Agriculture, Food, and Environment 41 (2) 97-106. DOI
2019 “Digging Up Colonial Roots: The Less-known Origins of the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership,” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience, 5(2) 1-9. DOI
2018 “When Life Gives You Lemons: Frank Meyer, Authority, and Credit in Early Twentieth-Century Plant Hunting,” History of Science 56(4), 432–469.
Book Chapters
Book Chapters
2026 “Teaching the Invisible: Science, Labor, and Pedagogy,” in Teaching With Science Writing in the Humanities Classroom, eds. Allison Dushane, Lisa Ottum, and Rosalind Powell, Modern Language Association. pp. 208-217.
2022 “Invisible Vitality: The Hidden Labours of Seed Banking,” in Jenny Bangham, Judith Kaplan, and Xan Chacko eds. Invisible Labour in Modern Science Rowman & Littlefield International
2022 “Introduction” co-authored with Jenny Bangham and Judith Kaplan in Jenny Bangham, Judith Kaplan, and Xan Chacko eds. Invisible Labour in Modern Science Rowman & Littlefield International
2022 “Seeds,” in An Anthropogenic Table of Elements eds. Timothy Neale, Courtney Addison and Thao Phan, University of Toronto Press LINK
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