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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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Bruno Latour, The pasteurization of France , trans. Alan Sheridan and John Law, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. 273, £23.95. - Georges Canguilhem, Ideology and rationality in the history of the life sciences , trans. Arthur Goldhammer, Cambridge, Mass., and London, The MIT Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xi, 160, £17.95.
TL;DR: The Pasteurization of France can be viewed as a battle, with its field and its myriad contestants, in which opposing sides attempted to mould and coerce various forces of resistance.
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Ethnography for the Internet: Embedded, Embodied and Everyday
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The Wrong Bin Bag: A Turn to Ontology in Science and Technology Studies?
Steve Woolgar,Javier Lezaun +1 more
TL;DR: There is in science and technology studies a perceptible new interest in matters of "ontology" as mentioned in this paper, and the notion of "enactment" has been explored in the context of ontology.
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The Ontological Turn: An Anthropological Exposition
TL;DR: The ontological turn in the history of anthropology and its emergence as a distinct theoretical orientation over the past few decades has been discussed in this paper, showing how it emerged in the work of Roy Wagner, Marilyn Strathern and Viveiros de Castro, as well a number of younger scholars.
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Animal geographies I
TL;DR: The first three reports on animal geographies as discussed by the authors set out the development of the subdiscipline, from the mid-1990s onwards, and charted the emergence of what has become a distinctive and innovative field with increasing interdisciplinary connections.
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'Emergent Aliens': On Salmon, Nature, and Their Enactment
Marianne Elisabeth Lien,John Law +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore some ways in which Atlantic salmon, an icon of wilderness, is enrolled in regimes of domestication, and treat domestication as a set of practices whose character defines and enacts Atlantic salmon in different, though partly overlapping ways.
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Making Alzheimer’s disease matter. Enacting, interfering and doing politics of nature
TL;DR: This article explored how Alzheimer's disease is being shaped as a "matter of concern" in a number of locations including: an international Alzheimer's patients' movement; a medical textbook; laboratory science; daily care practice; an advertisement for anti-dementia medication; general practice; parliamentary politics; and a conference on dementia.
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When foods become animals: Ruminations on Ethics and Responsibility in Care-full practices of consumption
Mara Miele,Adrian Bruce Evans +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore whether and how food labels carrying information about the lives of animals are used by consumers while shopping for meat and other animal foods, and draw upon a series of focus group discussions that were held in Italy as part of a large EU funded project (Welfare Quality®).
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Where the Wild Things Are Now: Domestication Reconsidered
Rebecca Cassidy,Molly H. Mullin +1 more
TL;DR: From the pet food industry and its critics to salmon farming in Tasmania, the protection of endangered species in Vietnam and the pigeon fanciers who influenced Darwin, Where the Wild Things Are Now provides an urgently needed re-examination of the concept of domestication against the shifting background of relationships among humans, animals and plants.