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Slippery: Field notes in empirical ontology
John Law,Marianne Elisabeth Lien +1 more
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In this paper, the authors explore empirical ontology by arguing that realities are enacted in practices and use the case of Atlantic salmon to argue that different salmon are being enacted within those different practices.Abstract:
This paper explores empirical ontology by arguing that realities are enacted in practices. Using the case of Atlantic salmon, it describes a series of scientific and fish-farming practices. Since these practices differ, the paper also argues that different salmon are being enacted within those different practices. The paper explores the precarious choreographies of those practices, considers the ways in which they enact agency and also work to generate Otherness. Finally it emphasises the productivity of practices and notes that they generate not simply particular realities (for instance particular salmon), but also enact a penumbra of not quite realised realities: animals that were almost but not quite created.read more
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An exploration of the effects of learning technical skills in a social environment on mental health recoveries
TL;DR: In this paper, an actor-network-inflected approach is used to examine how the participants in the generation of the local site in question - volunteers, bicycles, the workshop as a business and a clinic, tools, skills, subjective experiences and objective diagnoses of distress, as well as affective flows more generally are coming into being in relation to one another in the context of local practices.
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Producing ‘prehistoric’ life: Conservation breeding and the remaking of wildlife genealogies
TL;DR: It is argued that the giant tortoises are not icons of a ‘pristine’ evolutionary history, but are the product of genealogies that enfold management practices in the bodies and bloodlines of wildlife.
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Doing actor-network theory: integrating network analysis with empirical philosophy in the study of research into genetically modified organisms in New Zealand
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a Table of contents and a List of Figures (table of figures) for the article "Acknowledgements and acknowledgements of the authors of this article".
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Kinds of Replication: Examining the Meanings of “Conceptual Replication” and “Direct Replication”
TL;DR: The enactment perspective as mentioned in this paper is a relatively recent development in philosophy of science and science studies, and some of its core axioms are not new to psychology, and the article concludes by revisiting psychologists' previous calls to apprehend the dynamism of psychological reality to appreciate how scientific practices actively and unavoidably participate in performativity of reality.
The Power and Politics of STEM Research Design: Saving the "Small N"
TL;DR: The Learning from Small Numbers (LfSN) project as discussed by the authors ) is an example of a project that uses narrative methods for analyzing the stories of participants' lives to explore how race and gender (and other categories such as class) as macrostructures interact to race-and gender engineering education institutions.
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Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
TL;DR: Simians, Cyborgs and Women as mentioned in this paper is a collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989 by Haraway that analyzes accounts, narratives, and stories of the creation of nature, living organisms, and cyborgs.
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Some elements of a sociology of translation: domestication of the scallops and the fishermen of St Brieuc Bay
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a scientific and economic controversy about the causes for the decline in the population of scallops in St. Brieuc Bay and the attempts by three marine biologists to develop a conservation strategy for that population.
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Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts
Bruno Latour,Steve Woolgar +1 more
TL;DR: The authors presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist, drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts,"' and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the time being, too expensive to change.
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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
TL;DR: In this article, Fields has given us a splendid new translation of the greatest work of sociology ever written, one we will not be embarrassed to assign to our students, in addition she has written a brilliant and profound introduction.
Some elements of a sociology of translation: domestication of the scallops and the fishermen of St Brieuc Bay
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a scientific and economic controversy about the causes for the decline in the population of scallops in St. Brieuc Bay and the attempts by three marine biologists to develop a conservation strategy for that population.