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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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A internet 3E: uma internet incorporada, corporificada e cotidiana
TL;DR: A panorama of desafios enfrentados by etnografos that buscam entender atividades envolvendo a internet explorando tanto principios metodologicos quanto estrategias praticas chegar a um acordo com a definicao de sites de campo, as conexoes entre online e offline and a natureza mutavel da experiencia corporificada can be found in this article.
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Conservation and care: material politics and Atlantic salmon on Newfoundland’s Gander River
Jennifer Daniels,Charles Mather +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the different material and social orders that have over time connected human and salmon bodies and show that these different socio-material orders do not exist in harmony and reflect different visions of how to conserve and care for Atlantic salmon.
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Taking the National(ism) out of the National Health Service: re-locating agency to amongst ourselves
TL;DR: In the UK, campaigns against the privatisation of healthcare in the UK have often focused on saving, or preserving, the post-war National Health Service (NHS) of the 1950s.
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Reassembling Gender: On the Immanent Politics of Gendering Apparatuses of Bodily Production in Science
TL;DR: The authors examined ethnographically what genderings come to matter in the knowledge-making practices of mass spectrometry and peer review in a Czech research laboratory and brought unstable, implicit and absent genderings to the fore, including the corporeal orientations associated with enterprising adrenalin-driven masculinity and denigrated forms of embodiment such as shame and d...
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Dynamic non-human animals in theories of practice: views from the subaltern
TL;DR: It is argued the notion of the subaltern provides a more effective way to give voice and visibility to materialised ‘others’, and directly confront the human-centrism that can render social practice theories ethically passive.
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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.