Abstract Seeing Human Geography as a nexus of temporally oscillating concepts, this paper investigates the dissemination of scientific ideas with a focus on extra-scientific factors. While scientific progress is usually evaluated in terms of intellectual achievement of the individual researcher, geographers tend to forget about the external factors that tacitly yet critically contribute to knowledge production. While these externalities are well-documented in the natural sciences, social sciences have not yet seen comparable scrutiny. Using Torsten Hägerstrand’s rise to prominence as a concrete example, we explore this perspective in a social-science case – Human Geography. Applying an STS (Science and Technology Studies) approach, we depart from a model of science as socially-materially contingent, with special focus on three extra-scientific factors: community norms, materiality and the political climate. These factors are all important in order for knowledge to be disseminated into the hinterland of Human Geography. We conclude it is these types of conditions that in practice escape the relativism of representation.

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人文地理和腹地：TorstenHägerstrand的“迟来的”承认案

摘要本文将人文地理学视为时间振荡概念的一个纽带，研究了科学思想的传播，重点是超科学因素。虽然通常根据单个研究人员的智力成就来评估科学进步，但地理学家往往会忽略那些隐性但至关重要地有助于知识生产的外部因素。尽管这些外部性在自然科学中有充分的文献记载，但社会科学尚未进行类似的审查。以托斯滕·黑格斯特兰德（TorstenHägerstrand）的举世闻名为例，我们在社会科学案例–人文地理学中探索了这种观点。应用STS（科学技术研究）方法，我们脱离了科学模型，认为它具有社会或物质上的偶然性，特别关注三个超科学因素：社区规范，物质性和政治氛围。这些因素对于将知识传播到人文地理腹地都很重要。我们得出结论，正是这些条件类型在实践中逃避了代表相对论。