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Comment author: Morendil 11 December 2012 05:35:05PM 1 point [-]

animated conversation over afternoon tea at the vicarage

Ah; not a true controversy then?

You might be interested in Bruno Latour's work on mapping controversies. The idea is to look at instances of "controversy" with eyes fully open rather than half-closed. There's one on string theory, for instance.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 11 December 2012 05:37:14PM *  0 points [-]

Ah; not a true controversy then?

Just not much of a controversy.

You might be interested in Bruno Latour's work on mapping controversies.

So it's being done already! Any results yet? mappingcontroversies.net appears to all be research in progress.