1 Introduction

What sounds like a laborious set up for a shallow joke actually hits the core of the problem this issue covers: What do the leading archaeologist of the former German Democratic Republic in re-unifying Germany, Bulgarian scientists in the late 1960s and some recent discussions about representations of Polish ancient history have in common? They all operate along fractures in the crust of scientific authority, they mark moments in time when classical figures of knowledge reach or breach authoritative status. They serve to study how authoritative speech bridged and manifested these relations and help identify areas where scientific authority is contested. This volume transcends this topological rhetoric with a praxeological take on scientific authority. Concentrating on authority figures, it brings specific margins and contestations into sight. The papers in this volume study cases from former socialist countries of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, and thus examples that present us with the complexity of agonal relations within state socialism and post-socialist transformations that complicate matters of scientific authority in many ways, yet also offer illustrative examples of shifting constellations of (scientific) authority.

中文翻译：

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简介：中欧、东欧和东南欧的科学权威与科学和历史政治**

1 简介

听起来像是为一个肤浅的笑话而费力的设置实际上触及了本期所涵盖的问题的核心：前德意志民主共和国的主要考古学家在重新统一德国方面做了什么，保加利亚科学家在 1960 年代后期以及最近的一些讨论波兰古代历史的表征有什么共同点？它们都沿着科学权威外壳的裂缝运作，它们标志着经典知识人物达到或破坏权威地位的时刻。它们用于研究权威言论如何弥合和表现这些关系，并帮助确定科学权威受到质疑的领域。这本书超越了这种拓扑修辞，具有科学权威的行动学观点。专注于权威人物，它带来了特定的利润和争议。