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urn:uuid:4647e252-40e8-4df2-8603-1f0c16329b7f 03 15 9781912729197 00 EB E107 10 01 01 With Microbes 1 B01 Charlotte Brives Charlotte Brives is an anthropologist of science and biomedicine at the CNRS in France. She has been working on human-microbe relationships since her thesis, which focused on biologists-Saccharomyces cerevisiae relations in a laboratory. She then worked on clinical trials on HIV therapies in sub-Saharan Africa before her transformative encounter with bacteriophage viruses. For the past four years, she has been developing interdisciplinary projects with biologists, microbial ecologists and physicians to work on the potentialities and creative powers of these companion species. 2 A01 Matthäus Rest Matthäus Rest works on the relations between the economy, the environment, science and time, mostly with peasant communities in the Alps and the Himalayas. He is interested in unbuilt infrastructures, the temporalities of fermentation and the future of agriculture. Currently based at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, he is working with a group of biomolecular archaeologists who trace the deep history of dairying through the DNA of modern and ancient microbes. 3 B01 Salla Sariola Salla Sariola is a sociologist of science and medicine at the University of Helsinki. Her current research concerns the social study of microbes that includes fermentation, composting and making enquiries into the changing scientific practices concerning environmental microbiota and antimicrobial resistance. Her fieldwork has taken her to Sri Lanka, India, Benin, Kenya, and Finland at the intersections of science and technology studies, feminist and queer theory, medical anthropology, bioethics and global health. 01 eng 00 290 03 23 Science and Technology Studies 10 SOC002010 10 SOC019000 10 SOC071000 01 06 03 00 Without microbes, no other forms of life would be possible. But what does it mean to be with microbes? With Microbes sets microbes and the multiple ways they exist around, in and on humans at center stage. In this book, 24 social scientists and artists attune to microbes and describe their complicated relationships with humans and other beings. The book shows the multiplicity of these relationships and their dynamism, through detailed ethnographies of the relationships between humans, animals, plants, and microbes. Ethnographic explorations with fermented foods, waste, faecal matter, immunity, antimicrobial resistance, phages, as well as indigenous and scientific understandings of microbes challenge ideas of them being simple entities: not just pathogenic foes, old friends or good fermentation minions, but so much more. By describing these complex, dynamic, and ever-changing entanglements between humans and microbes, the chapters raise crucial points about how microbes are ‘known’ and how social scientists can study microbes with ethnographic methods, more often than not in the absence of microscopes, models, and computations. Following these various entanglements, the book tells how these relations transform both humans and microbes in the process. 04 00 List of Figures 7 Acknowledgements 9 Contributors 11 Introducing With Microbes: From witnessing to withnessing. The Kilpisjärvi Collective, 17 ____ I : SENSING 1 · The Deplantationocene: Listening to yeasts and rejecting the plantation worldview. Denis Chartier, 43 2 · Knowing, living, and being with bokhasi. Veera Kinnunen, 64 3 · Oimroas: Notes on a summer alpine journey. Matthäus Rest, 84 4 · Building 'natural' immunities: Cultivation of human-microbe relations in vaccine-refusing families. Johanna Nurmi, 100 II : REGULATING 5 · When cultures meet: Microbes, permeable bodies and the environment. Katriina Huttunen, Elina Oinas and Salla Sariola, 121 6 · Bathing in black water? The microbiopolitics of the River Seine's ecological reclamation. Marine Legrand and Germain Meulemans, 143 7 · Scalability and partial connections in tackling antimicrobial resistance in West Africa. Jose A. Cañada, 165 8 · Ontologies of resistance: Bacteria surveillance and the co-production of antimicrobial resistance. Nicolas Fortané, 184 III : IDENTIFYING 9 · Scenes from the many lives of Escherichia coli: A play in three acts. Mark Erickson and Catherine Will, 207 10 · Micro-geographies of kombucha as methodology: A cross-cultural conversation. A.C. Davidson and Emma Ransom-Jones, 228 11 · Pluribiosis and the never-ending microgeohistories. Charlotte Brives, 247 12 · Old anthropology's acquaintance with human-microbial encounters: Interpretations and methods. Andrea Butcher, 268 Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press 04 01 20211006 02 WORLD 06 15 9781912729180 06 15 9781912729197 06 15 9781912729210 06 15 9781912729203 WORLD 09 Mattering Press 20 01 urn:uuid:ef825a4b-82f7-4fe9-8906-ce6146985d21 03 15 9780993144943 00 EB E101 10 01 01 Practising Comparison Logics, Relations, Collaborations 1 A01 Joe Deville Joe Deville is a lecturer at Lancaster University, based jointly in the Departments of Organisation, Work & Technology and Sociology, and is a co-director of the Centre for Mobilities Research. He completed his PhD at Goldsmiths in 2011 and published his first book, Lived Economies of Default, with Routledge in early 2015. He has written widely on issues of credit, debt, and disaster preparedness in journals including Sociological Review; Journal of Cultural Economy; and Consumption Markets and Culture. He is also an editor for Mattering Press and Journal of Cultural Economy. 2 B01 Michael Guggenheim Michael Guggenheim is a reader at Goldsmiths, University of London and a director of the Centre for Invention and Social Process (CSISP). He has published widely on social theory, disasters, buildings and inventive methods. Most recently he co-edited Disasters and Politics (Sociological Review Monograph series, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014) and published ‘The Media of Sociology: Tight and Loose Translations’ in the British Journal of Sociology. He is an editor of the journal Demonstrations: Journal for Experiments in Social Studies of Technology. 3 B01 Zuzana Hrdličková Zuzana Hrdlicˇ ková is a social anthropologist interested in gender, conflict, and disaster within and outside academic settings. She completed her PhD – which analysed the impact of war in Sri Lanka on women – at Charles University in Prague in 2009. Between 2011 and 2015, she worked as a postdoctoral Research Associate at Goldsmiths, University of London, looking at disasters and their management in India. She has published numerous academic papers on these topics and she has co-edited special volumes, most recently ‘Living with Disasters: Perspectives on the (Re) Production of Knowledge’ in Nature and Culture. She is interested in bridging the space between academia and applied work. 01 eng 00 324 03 10 SOC019000 10 SOC026040 01 06 03 00 This book compares things, objects, concepts, and ideas. It is also about the practical acts of doing comparison. Comparison is not something that exists in the world, but a particular kind of activity.Agents of various kinds compare by placing things next to one another, by using software programs and other tools, and by simply looking in certain ways. Comparing like this is an everyday practice. But in the social sciences, comparing often becomes more burdensome, more complex, and more questions are asked of it.How, then, do social scientists compare? What role do funders, their tools, and databases play in social scientific comparisons? Which sorts of objects do they choose to compare and how do they decide which comparisons are meaningful? Doing comparison in the social sciences, it emerges, is a practice weighed down by a history in which comparison was seen as problematic. As it plays out in the present, this history encounters a range of other agents also involved in doing comparison who may challenge the comparisons of social scientists themselves.This book introduces these questions through a varied range of reports, auto-ethnographies, and theoretical interventions that compare and analyse these different and often intersecting comparisons. Its goal is to begin a move away from the critique of comparison and towards a better comparative practice, guided not by abstract principles, but a deeper understanding of the challenges of practising comparison. 04 00 List of Figures 7 Contributors 9 Acknowledgements 15 ____ 1 · Introduction: The Practices and Infrastructures of Comparison. Joe Deville, Michael Guggenheim and Zuzana Hrdličková, 17 SECTION ONE: LOGICS 2 · Comparative Research: Beyond Linear-causal Explanation. Monika Krause, 45 3 · Cross Comparison: Comparisons across Architectural Displays of Colonial Power. Alice Santiago Faria, 68 SECTION TWO: COLLABORATIONS 4 · Same, Same but Different: Provoking Relations, Assembling the Comparator. Joe Deville, Michael Guggenheim and Zuzana Hrdličková, 99 5 · Pulling Oneself Out of the Traps of Comparison: An Auto-ethnography of a European Project. Madeleine Akrich and Vololona Rabeharisoa, 130 6 · Frame Against the Grain: Asymmetries, Interference, and the Politics of EU Comparison. Tereza Stöckelová, 166 SECTION THREE: RELATIONS 7 · Lateral Comparisons. Christopher Gad and Casper Bruun Jensen, 189 8 · Comparative Tinkering with Care Moves. Peter A. Lutz, 220 9 · Comparing Comparisons: On Rankings and Accounting in Hospitals and Universities. Sarah de Rijcke, Iris Wallenburg, Paul Wouters and Roland Ball, 251 10 · Steve Jobs, Terrorists, Gentlemen, and Punks: Tracing Strange Comparisons of Biohackers. Morgan Meyer, 281 11 · Afterword: Spaces of Comparison. Jennifer Robinson, 306 Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press 04 01 20160725 02 WORLD 06 15 9780993144943 06 15 9780993144950 WORLD 09 Mattering Press 20 01 urn:uuid:5dc90ef2-3d6b-4696-9881-e0b6db270fa2 03 15 9781912729357 00 EB E101 10 01 01 Technoscientific Globalisation from Below 1 A01 Mathieu Quet Mathieu Quet, sociologist, is a research director at Institut de recherche pour le développement, Paris, and a member of the Centre Population et Développement (CEPED), Université Paris Cité. His research focuses upon the social aspects of pharmaceutical development in India, and he is more generally interested in observing the globalisation of technological markets from Global South countries. He authored Illicit Medicines in the Global South. Public Health Access and Pharmaceutical Regulation (Routledge 2021). 2 B01 Koichi Kameda Koichi Kameda de Figueiredo Carvalho holds a PhD in sociology (EHESS, Paris) and a BA in law (UERJ, Brazil). He is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center Emile Durkheim at the University of Bordeaux and is an associate researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Public Health Emergencies (NIESP/Fiocruz, Brazil) and at CEPED/Université Paris Cité. His work focuses on issues related to biomedicine, global health, intellectual property, and pharmaceutical markets and social justice, and he has worked on local manufacturing and regulation of diagnostics and vaccines in the Global South and public health–oriented R&D models. 3 B01 Jessica Pourraz Jessica Pourraz holds a PhD in sociology (2019) from the École des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. She is a postdoctoral research fellow with Sciences Po Bordeaux and an associate researcher at the Center for Human Sciences (CSH) in Delhi. Her research focuses on issues related to science, biomedicine, the environment, and health, and more particularly on the health effects of air pollution in India and Ghana. 4 B01 Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar Yves-marie Rault-Chodankar is an associate professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and an associate researcher at the Pôle de recherche pour l’organisation et la diffusion de l’information géographique (Prodig). His work sits at the intersection of economic geography and development studies, examining how emerging economies integrate into global value chains and drive regional development in the Global South. Through extensive fieldwork in India, Yves-Marie’s ethnographic research captures the lived realities of local entrepreneurs, particularly in the pharmaceutical sector, to show how they adapt and innovate to reshape global production networks from below. 01 eng 00 335 03 10 BUS068000 10 TEC072000 10 TEC052000 01 06 03 00 Global South populations, firms and governments play a key role in redefining the relationship between sciences, technologies and markets on an international scale. Forces shaping the future of global technoscience emerge from unexpected places, prompting a reassessment of global power processes. This volume contains rich case studies studying technoscientific globalization ‘from below’ drawn from fieldwork in Asia, Latin America and Africa, examining the interplay between technology, power, and society at the global scale. The cases are grounded in postcolonial Science and Technology Studies and address a range of topics including pharmaceutical markets, scientific developments and digital practices. This approach illuminates the multiple creative ways in which subaltern players appropriate, divert, overturn or bypass prevailing views on technology and market construction. 04 00 Figures Tables Funding acknowledgements Author biographies 1. Introduction. Rethinking technoscientific globalisation with the Global South The Technoglob Collective SECTION 1. LIVING OFF THE INFORMAL 2. Enabling and resisting the platform economy from below: Platform immigrant workers in Ecuador Henry Chávez and María Belén Albornoz 3. Digital knowledge from below: Low-skilled labour migration to the Gulf countries and technology adoption in India Javed Mohammad Alam SECTION 2. NAVIGATING INTERNATIONAL INEQUITIES 4. Calibrating the global: How are Ghanaian scientists shifting Africa’s position in global atmospheric science? Jessica Pourraz and Allison Felix Hughes 5. Affirming pharmaceutical sovereignty: Technology transfer agreements and vaccine geopolitics during a global health emergency Koichi Kameda, Denise Pimenta, and Gustavo Matta 6. A human drug amid animal diseases: The ecology of globalised heparin Thibaut Serviant-Fine SECTION 3. ADJUSTING THE GLOBAL 7. Patching development: Information technology adjustments in the Mauritian logistical sector Marine Al Dahdah and Mathieu Quet 8. Halting the ‘forced march’: The ups and downs of Chad’s integration into global pharmaceutical markets Ilyass Mahamat Nour Moussa Section 4: Creating alternative values 9. Making value off-patent: India’s pharmaceutical globalisation Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar 10. The division of biometric labour: Relations of production in African voter-identification technologies Cecilia Passanti 11. How magic bullets travel: An account of ready-to-use therapeutic food in India Aamod Utpal Photos of the Technoglob collective Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press 04 01 20250908 02 WORLD 06 15 9781912729388 06 15 9781912729364 06 15 9781912729371 06 15 9781912729357 WORLD 09 Mattering Press 20 01 urn:uuid:8610efab-7a5b-4078-9770-ab39d79329d2 03 15 9781912729074 00 EB E101 10 01 01 The Ethnographic Case 1 A01 Emily Yates-Doerr 2 B01 Christine Labuski 01 eng 00 256 03 10 SOC002010 10 MED058090 10 SOC062000 10 SOC029000 10 LAW027000 10 SOC064000 10 POL012000 10 MED113000 10 SCI092000 10 SCI030000 10 SOC066000 10 HEA024000 10 REL028000 10 PER011000 10 BUS070150 10 TEC010030 10 MED022020 10 TEC031010 10 MED033000 01 06 03 00 The 1st Edition of The Ethnographic Case, published in 2017, was an experiment in post-publication peer review, with the book published online and open to comments from readers. In this new 2nd edition, to be published later this year, the editors and authors have updated the text, both in response to these comments and taking into account changing contexts in the years since the book’s first publication. The Ethnographic Case: A doctor injects turpentine into the leg of a dying patient; the patient lives and years later a granddaughter uses this story of survival to write a story of her own. A refugee is questioned in court for falsifying paternity; a cultural expert intervenes to develop a legal case for kinship that exceeds DNA. The actions of a caring father pose a dilemma for how a filmmaker represents Ecuadorian sex workers. In all three chapters, “the case” shapes possibilities for action. In each chapter, the practice of case-making is also specific to the details of the case. The Ethnographic Case challenges a widespread academic inclination to treat concepts as immutable mobiles. The contributions to this volume develop “ethnographic casing” as a technique of attending to heterogeneities in systems of thought. Medical cases. Legal cases. Museum showcases. Detective cases. Some cases featured are violent, others compassionate; some set stereotypes in motion, others break them down. Connected more by difference than similarity, the “cases” in this volume make a case for the virtue of relational science. This is a science that is not beholden to master narratives, but which embraces the double-work of caring for detail, while caring for the practices through which one learns to care. In 26 gripping and provocative installations, the volume showcases research from numerous influential feminist and decolonial scholars. Where anthropology has long sought to identify patterns in culture, this volume makes space for inquiry focused on particularities and advocates for an intellectual politics where that which seemingly doesn’t fit is still allowed to matter. 04 00 0. Foreword, Christine Labuski and Emily Yates-Doerr 1. Introduction, Emily Yates-Doerr & Christine Labuski 2. Exemplary: The case of the farmer and the turpentine, Annemarie Mol 3. Autophony: Listening to your eyes move, Anna Harris 4. Encased: Plotting attentions through distraction, Melissa S. Biggs and John Bodinger de Uriarte 5. No judgments: Fieldwork on the spectrum, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp 6. Facial paralysis: Somaticising frustration in Guatemala, Nicholas Copeland 7. ‘He didn’t blow us up’ – routine violence and non-event as case, Ken MacLeish 8. What’s in a name? A case of trafficking in other people’s stories, Ruth Goldstein 9. Normalising sexually violated bodies: Sexual assault adjudication, medical evidence and the legal case, Sameena Mulla 10. Case by case, Jason Danely 11. The case of the ugly sperm, Janelle Lamoreaux 12. Waiting in the face of bare life, Aaron Ansell 13. Crossing boundaries: The case for making sense with the sense-able, Christy Spackman 14. Swamp dialogues: Filming ethnography, Ildikó Zonga Plájás 15. What is a family? Refugee DNA and the possible truths of kinship, Carole McGranahan 16. A polygraphic casebook, Susan Reynolds Whyte 17. Travelling within the case, Atsuro Morita 18. The case of the cake: Dilemmas of giving and taking, Rima Praspaliauskiene 19. From fish lives to fish law: Learning to see Indigenous legal orders in Canada, Zoe Todd 20. Ethnographic case, legal case: From the spirit of the law to the law of the spirit, André Menard and Constanza Tizzoni 21. The enclosed case, Elizabeth Lewis 22. Making Cases for a Technological Fix: Germany’s Energy Transition and the Green Good Life, Jennifer Carlson 23. Filming sex/gender: The ethics of (mis)representation, Anna Wilking 24. Three millimetres, Christine Labuski 25. The discernment of knowledge: Sexualised violence in the Mennonite church, Stephanie Krehbiel 26. Earthly togetherness: Making a case for living with worms,Filippo Bertoni 27. Refusing extraction: Unearthing the messiness of activist research, Teresa A. Velásquez 28. Fixing things, moving stories, Jenna Grant 29. The ethnographic case: In-conclusion, Anna Dowrick, Julien McHardy, Joe Deville Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press 04 01 20231101 02 WORLD 06 15 9781912729340 06 15 9781912729326 06 15 9781912729333 06 15 9781912729074 WORLD 09 Mattering Press 20 01 urn:uuid:89aef935-5c74-48b5-9874-6182202d8d46 03 15 9780995527775 00 EB E101 10 01 01 Ghost-Managed Medicine Big Pharma’s Invisible Hands 1 A01 Sergio Sismondo 01 eng 00 152 03 10 SOC026000 10 SOC026040 01 06 03 00 Ghost-Managed Medicine by Sergio Sismondo explores a spectral side of medical knowledge, based in pharmaceutical industry tactics and practices.Hidden from the public view, the many invisible hands of the pharmaceutical industry and its agents channel streams of drug information and knowledge from contract research organizations (that extract data from experimental bodies) to publication planners (who produce ghostwritten medical journal articles) to key opinion leaders (who are sent out to educate physicians about drugs) to patient advocacy organizations (who ventriloquize views on diseases, treatments and regulations), and onward. The goal of this ‘assemblage marketing’ is to establish conditions that make specific diagnoses, prescriptions and purchases as obvious and frequent as possible. While staying in the shadows, companies create powerful markets in which increasing numbers of people become sick and the drugs largely sell themselves.Most agents for drug companies aim to tell the truth, but the truths they tell are drawn from streams of knowledge that have been fed, channeled and maintained by the companies at every possible opportunity. Especially because those companies have concentrated influence and narrow interests, consumers and others should be concerned about how epistemic power is distributed – or ‘political economies of knowledge’ – and not just about truth and falsity of medical knowledge.In pharmaceutical companies’ ideal worlds, medical research, education and marketing would be tightly fused. Doctors trying to educate themselves would turn to companies’ agents, such as researchers and educators sponsored to spread particular messages, local sales reps hired to change doctors’ behaviour, or journalists supplied with news stories. Ghost-Managed Medicine shows that the real world of medicine is not very far from the worlds that the companies want to create. Big Pharma’s many invisible hands are busy throughout medicine, and medicine changes as a result.Ghost-Managed Medicine draws on presentations at industry conferences, especially ones where pharmaceutical companies interact with communication, marketing and other agencies. Participants at these interface conferences describe goals, practices and concerns; in the process, they reveal a lot about how the industry works. Some of the book’s other data is taken from publications that also serve as interfaces between the industry and adjacent actors, and from interviews with people engaged in pharmaceutical marketing. 04 00 List of Figures 6 ____ 1 · Power and Knowledge in Drug Marketing, 7 2 · Data Extraction at the Margins of Health, 40 3 · Ghosts in the Machine: Publication Planning 101, 64 4 · Hosts and Guests in the Haunted House, 91 5 · Possession: Making and Managing Key Opinion Leaders, 110 6 · Draining and Constraining Agency, 139 7 · Sirens of Hope, Trolls of Fury and Other Vocal Creatures, 161 8 · Conclusion: The Haunted Pharmakon, 177 Acknowledgements, 191 Notes, 195 Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press 04 01 20180723 02 WORLD 06 15 9780995527775 06 15 9780995527782 WORLD 09 Mattering Press 20 01 urn:uuid:1f4a0ad0-d8b8-4e10-bfb7-588a9b69c303 03 15 9780993144967 00 EB E101 10 01 01 Imagining Classrooms Stories of children, teaching, and ethnography 1 A01 Vicki Macknight 01 eng 00 202 03 10 EDU037000 10 SOC019000 10 SOC026000 01 06 03 00 In this book we go to five Australian classrooms, bustling with nine- and ten-year-old children. In each classroom, imaginations are being done, not just in minds, but with bodies too, using materials and words, laughter and ideas. Each classroom is part of a different type of school: a Waldorf/Steiner school, an exclusive private school, a middle-class government school, a diverse catholic school, and a school for intellectually disabled ‘special’ children. And at these five schools, we see imagination being done — to represent, to transform, to empathise, to work with others, and to think.The book’s characters are children and teachers, with teachers working through the school day to give children the skills they will need to think, to think with and about others, and to be creative. What we notice are habits of imagining being instilled and these range from getting children to close their eyes and imagine accurate representations, through to getting them to imagine how others feel, to getting children to make new connections between thoughts and feelings. We wonder about the implications of these habits for good knowing and good doing.At the same time, the book shines a critical lens onto the imaginative practices of ethnographers and participant-observers, to help us think about how we define, how we class, and how we analyse our data. Ethnographers, too, have habits of imagining, representing, empathising, and connecting, and noticing these habits can help us do them better. How are academic practices both material and imaginative? How might we make sure our work is both as accurate and as ethical as possible? Macknight argues that imagination is not just something hidden in minds — it is something we do. This, then, is a book about how to do imagination better for thinking, for making, and for living together. 04 00 Preface · On Losing Foundations 9 Acknowledgements 13 Introduction 15 ____ PART ONE · IMAGINATION IN SOCIAL SCIENCE PRACTICE 1 · Imagining Classrooms, 33 2 · Defining Imagination in Practice, 56 3 · Imagination and Theory Building, 69 PART TWO · IMAGINATION IN CLASSROOM PRACTICE 4 · Pictures in the Mind. A Steiner Classroom and Representational Imagination, 93 5 · Telling a Good Yarn. An Independent Classroom and the Imagination that Transforms, 110 6 · Thinking of Otherness. A Government Classroom and Reading Intention, 126 7 · Having a Friend. A Special Classroom and the Making of Relationships, 145 CONCLUSION · DOING THE RELATIONAL Imagining Connections and Separations, 164 Afterword, 184 Bibliography, 191 Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press 04 01 20160725 02 WORLD 06 15 9780993144967 06 15 9780993144974 WORLD 09 Mattering Press 20 01 urn:uuid:091abd14-7bc0-4fe7-8194-552edb02b98b 03 15 9780995527768 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Inventing the Social 1 A01 Noortje Marres Noortje Marres is Associate Professor in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) at the University of Warwick (UK). She studied science, technology and society (STS) at the University of Amsterdam and the Ecole des Mines (Paris). She was formerly the Director of the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process, Goldsmiths, University of London. Her book Material Participation (Palgrave) came out in paperback in 2015, and she published Digital Sociology (Polity) in 2017. 2 B01 Michael Guggenheim Michael Guggenheim is Reader at the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, and a Co-Director of the Centre for Invention and Social Process (CISP). His research focuses on expertise and lay people in the fields of disaster management, buildings and cooking. He teaches inventive and visual methods and dreams of a different sociology. 3 B01 Alex Wilkie Alex Wilkie is a sociologist of science, technology and design and a designer. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Design, at Goldsmiths, University of London where he is also a Director of the Centre for Invention and Social Process (CISP, Department of Sociology). Alex has recently been working on questions of aesthetics and speculation in relation to knowledge and inventive practices and has co-edited the volume Studio Studies (Routledge, 2015) with Ignacio Farías and Speculative Research (Routledge, 2017) with Martin Savransky and Marsha Rosengarten. He is currently writing a book on Science and Technology Studies and Design (with Mike Michael). 01 eng 00 336 03 10 SOC026000 10 SOC026040 10 DES000000 01 06 03 00 Inventing the Social, edited by Noortje Marres, Michael Guggenheim and Alex Wilkie, showcases recent efforts to develop new ways of knowing society that combine social research with creative practice. With contributions from leading figures in sociology, architecture, geography, design, anthropology, and digital media, the book provides practical and conceptual pointers on how to move beyond the customary distinctions between knowledge and art, and on how to connect the doing, researching and making of social life in potentially new ways.Presenting concrete projects with a creative approach to researching social life as well as reflections on the wider contexts from which these projects emerge, this collection shows how collaboration across social science, digital media and the arts opens up timely alternatives to narrow, instrumentalist proposals that seek to engineer behaviour and to design community from scratch. To invent the social is to recognise that social life is always already creative in itself and to take this as a starting point for developing different ways of combining representation and intervention in social life. 04 00 1. Introduction: From Performance to Inventing the Social Noortje Marres, Michael Guggenheim, Alex Wilkie SECTION ONE: PROJECTS 2. Inviting Atmospheres to the Architecture Table Nerea Calvillo 3. Incubations: Inventing Preventive Assemblages Michael Guggenheim, Bernd Kräftner, Judith Kröll 4. Turning Controversies into Questions of Design: Prototyping Alternative Metrics for Heathrow Airport Christian Nold 5. Designing and Doing: Enacting Energy-and-Community Alex Wilkie, Mike Michael 6. Outing Mies’ Basement: Designs to Recompose the Barcelona Pavilion’s Societies Andrés Jaque SECTION TWO: ESSAYS 7. Earth, Fire, Art: Pyrotechnology and the Crafting of the Social Nigel Clark 8. How to Spot the Behavioural Shibboleth and What to Do About It Fabian Muniesa 9. The Social and its Problems: On Problematic Sociology Martin Savransky 10. The Sociality of Infectious Diseases Marsha Rosengarten 11. Social Media as Experiments in Sociality Noortje Marres, Carolin Gerlitz COMMENTARIES 12. Hacking the Social? Christopher M. Kelty 13. How Can We…? Connecting Inventive Social Research with Social and Government Innovation Lucy Kimbell APPENDIX 14. Inventive Tensions: A Conversation Lucy Kimbell, Michael Guggenheim, Noortje Marres, Alex Wilkie Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press 04 01 20180711 02 WORLD 06 15 9780995527751 06 15 9780995527768 WORLD 09 Mattering Press 20 01 urn:uuid:e1af2b0d-06a2-4c79-8b11-7a1e08e5f41e 03 15 9780993144981 00 EB E101 10 01 01 Modes of Knowing Resources from the Baroque 1 A01 John Law John Law is Emeritus Professor in Sociology at the Open University and Honorary Professor in Sociology in the Centre for Science Studies at Lancaster University. His publications have worked through empirical case studies in a range of areas including large technological projects, nature and culture, and postcolonial knowledge relations to develop STS theory and methods in material semiotics. His publications include After Method, Aircraft Stories, and Organising Modernity. 2 B01 Evelyn Ruppert Evelyn Ruppert is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She works on questions of method, data, and digital life, and is currently leading a project funded by an ERC Consolidator grant, ‘Peopling Europe: How Data make a People’ (ARITHMUS; 2014–19). Evelyn is the founder and editor-inchief of a SAGE open access journal, Big Data & Society. Her book, Being Digital Citizens (with Engin Isin) was published in April 2015. 01 eng 00 268 03 10 ART015090 10 SOC019000 10 SOC026000 01 06 03 00 How might we think differently? This book is an attempt to respond to this question. Its contributors are all interested in non-standard modes of knowing. They are all more or less uneasy with the restrictions or the agendas implied by academic modes of knowing, and they have chosen to do this by working with, through, or against one important Western alternative — that of the baroque.Why the baroque? One answer is that the baroque made space for and fostered many forms of otherness. It involved knowing things differently, extravagantly, excessively, and in materially heterogeneous ways, and it apprehended that which is other and could not be caught in a cognitive or symbolic net. It also involved knowing in ways that did not gather into a single point and knew itself to be performative. As part of a great Western division between rationalist and non-rationalist modes of knowing, the baroque is therefore a possible resource for creating ways of knowing differently — a storehouse of possible alternative techniques. To say this is not to say that it is the right mode of knowing. The book’s authors do not seek to create a ‘baroque social science’ whatever that might be, but instead work in a range of ways to explore how drawing on the ‘resources of the baroque’ can help us to think differently. 04 00 List of Figures 7 Contributors 11 Acknowledgements 15 ____ 1 · Modes of Knowing: Resources from the Baroque. John Law, 17 PART ONE: REFLECTION ON THE BAROQUE 2 · On Exceeding Baroque Excess: An Exploration through a Participatory Community Workshop. Mario Blaser, 59 3 · Fallacy of the Work, Truth of the Performance: What Makes Music Baroque: Historical Authenticity or Ontological Plurality? Antoine Hennion, 84 4 · Distributive Numbers: A Post-demographic Perspective on Probability. Adrian Mackenzie, 115 5 · A Baroque Sensibility for Big Data Visualisations. Evelyn Ruppert, 136 PART TWO: EXPERIMENTING WITH BAROQUE 6 · Baroque as Tension: Introducing Turmoil and Turbulence in the Academic Text. Mattijs van de Port, 165 7 · Innovation with Words and Visuals: A Baroque Sensibility. Helen Verran and Brit Ross Winthereik, 197 8 · London Stone Redux. Hugh Raffles, 224 9 · Clafoutis as a Composite: On Hanging Together Felicitously. Annemarie Mol, 242 Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press 04 01 20160725 02 WORLD 06 15 9780993144981 06 15 9780993144998 WORLD 09 Mattering Press 20 01 urn:uuid:0573507d-a5c8-4199-8b23-6b1131f36934 03 15 9780995527706 00 EB E101 10 01 01 On Curiosity The Art of Market Seduction 1 A01 Frank Cochoy 01 eng 02 fre 00 256 03 10 BUS043060 10 SOC026040 01 06 03 00 What draws us towards a shop window display? What drives us to grab a special offer, to enter the privileged circle of premium newspaper subscribers, to peruse the pages of an enticing magazine? Without doubt, it is curiosity — that essential force of everyday action which invites us to break from our habits and to become transported beyond our very selves.Curiosity (whether healthy or unhealthy) is one of the favourite tricks of market seduction. Capturing a public — attracting the attention of a reader, seducing a customer, meeting the expectations of a user, persuading a voter … — often requires the construction of a set of technical devices that can play upon people’s inner motivations.Cochoy invites us to take a sociological trip into these cabinets of curiosity, accompanied throughout by Bluebeard, a fairy tale that is both a model of the genre and a pure curiosity machine. At once a work of history and economic anthropology, the book meticulously analyses the devices designed by markets to arouse, excite, and sustain curiosity: a window display, practices of ‘teasing’, packaging, bus shelters, mobile internet technologies… In the Bettencourt and Strauss-Kahn affairs and the Wikileaks controversy, Cochoy also uncovers the work of investigative journalism and its attention-grabbing ‘scoops’, revealing the secrets of the revealers of secrets.Available in English for the first time, this major work will arouse readers’ curiosity over the course of its unusual and colourful journey. By the end, now better informed and more cautious, they will be able to identify the traps of which they are the target. So long as curiosity is kept at bay, at least! 04 00 List of Figures 7 Acknowledgements 9 Teaser 11 ____ 1 · From Eve to Bluebeard: The Difficult Secularisation of Curiosity, 17 2 · Bluebeard: Towards the Marketisation of Curiosity, 35 3 · 'Peep shop'? An Anthropology of Window Displays, 54 The Effects of Locks, 58 The Effects of Mirrors, 76 4 · 'Teasing', 99 Packaging (Teasing, Scene 1), 100 Advertising (Teasing, Scene 2), 111 Continually Agitating Curiosity, or How to Lead a Consumer towards Wonderland, 141 Data Matrix, 149 5 · 'Closer', 157 Door-closer, 161 Closer, 169 Appendix · Bluebeard, 205 Notes, 211 Bibliography, 237 Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press 04 01 20160725 02 WORLD 06 15 9780995527706 06 15 9780995527713 WORLD 09 Mattering Press 20 01 urn:uuid:cc201ee7-8f10-4ee8-b182-1797b644b037 03 15 9780995527799 00 EB E101 10 01 01 An Anthropology of Common Ground Awkward Encounters in Heritage Work 1 A01 Nathalia Brichet 01 eng 00 288 03 10 SOC026000 10 SOC002000 10 POL045000 01 06 03 00 Paying attention to details and ‘small stories’ as that which make worlds (heritage projects as well as ethnography), the book proposes a kind of postcolonial scholarship. Rather than uncovering or building up one story about the Danish-Ghanaian past, the work insists on providing ‘inconclusive’ analyses, collaboratively generated in the course of the project work and in the process of writing ethnographically about it. The ambition is to nurture fieldwork as an opportunity for creating a common ground, on which to think about what heritage and ethnography could be. Common ground, then, is not only an ideal of the joint heritage project, but an expression of an anthropological ambition. In consequence, the book is an account of a particular ethnographic research project – the ‘methods story’ being about how post-colonial relations might be noticed and supported and about how empirical research is done as relations between what is going on in the field and the way that the ethnographer chooses to tell the story of the field in the text.The book is structured around four different approaches, following a ‘crafting the field’ chapter (in lieu of a ‘context’ chapter). Each provides a qualification of heritage and ethnography – as components of positively and collaboratively generating what these phenomena even are. 04 00 List of Figures 7 Acknowledgements 9 Preface 13 ____ Introduction: Collaboration and the Fruits of Awkward Relations, 19 1 · Crafting the Field of Common Heritage, 43 2 · Sharing Heritage Through Friction, 63 3 · Altering Heritage Through Mimesis, 113 4 · Valuing Heritage Through the Fetish, 153 5 · Qualifying Heritage Through Postcolonial Moments, 213 Notes 261 References 275 Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press 04 01 20180723 02 WORLD 06 15 9780995527799 06 15 9781912729005 WORLD 09 Mattering Press 20 01 urn:uuid:6852ffab-b996-4d80-a8c6-67be81eb9d20 03 15 9781912729036 00 EB E101 10 01 01 Boxes A Field Guide 1 A01 Susanne Bauer Susanne Bauer is professor in Science and Technologies Studies (STS) at the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo. Trained as environmental scientist and epidemiologist, her work in the social studies of science has unpacked calculative infrastructures and data politics in the health sciences. Her current research interests range from the conditions of intensified data recombination and the making and circulation of regulatory knowledges, to airports as multiple borderlands, and logistics as technoscience. 2 B01 Martina Schlünder Martina Schlünder is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. As a scholar in feminist science studies she explores and analyses the politics of technoscience in reproductive technologies, their broader implications in the history of eugenics, biopolitics and feminisms. 3 B01 Maria Rentetzi Maria Rentetzi is professor at the Technical University Berlin. She has published widely on the history of nuclear sciences with an emphasis on gender, material culture, and science diplomacy. A physicist by training, Rentetzi currently leads an ERC Consolidator Grant that studies the history of radiation protection and the role the International Atomic Energy Agency has played as a diplomatic and political international institution in shaping radiation policies and nuclear diplomacies. 01 eng 00 628 03 10 SOC002000 10 SOC071000 10 SOC041000 01 06 03 00 A book full of boxes. A box in itself. An unboxing. This book explores boxes in their broadest sense and size. It invites us to step into the field, unravel how and why things are contained and how it might be otherwise. By turning the focus of Science and Technology Studies (STS) to boxing practices, this collation of essays examines boxes as world-making devices.Gathered in the format of a field guide, it offers an introduction to ways of ordering the world, unpacking their boxed-up, largely invisible politics and epistemics. Performatively, pushing against conventional uses of academic books, this volume is about rethinking taken-for-granted formats and infrastructures of scholarly ordering – thinking, writing, reading. It diverges from encyclopedic logics and representative overviews of boxing practices and the architectural organization of monographs and edited volumes through a single, overarching argument.This book asks its users to leave well-trodden paths of linear and comprehensive reading and invites them to read sideways, creating their own orders through associations and relating. Thus, this book is best understood as an intervention, a beginning, an open box, a slim volume that needs expansion and further experiments with ordering by its users. 04 00 List of Figures 9 Contributors 16 Boxing Practices 25 Preface and Acknowledgements 26 ____ Introductions 1 · The Generative Possibilities of the Wrong Box. Martina Schlünder, 29 2 · The Epistemology of the Familiar: A Hymn to Pandora. Maria Rentetzi, 37 3 · Navigation Tools for Studying Boxes: A User's Manual. Susanne Bauer, 45 I · TRAP 4 · Inscribing the Soul: Cerebral Ventricles as Symbolic and Material Boxes. Jameson Kismet Bell, 55 5 · Better Shelter. Emily Brownell, 73 6 · Slide Box: How to Stock Some Thousand Cancer Cases. Ulrich Mechler, 93 7 · System Box (Tray) with Wasp. Tahani Nadim, 109 II · JUKE 8 · Thinking Inside the Box: The Construction of Knowledge in a Miniature Seventeenth-Century Cabinet. Stephanie Bowry, 127 9 · Musical Instrument Boxes. Hidden Information: Cases for Musical Instruments and Their Functions. Beatrix Darmstädter, 145 10 · Boxing Crickets: A Taxonomy of Containers for Singing and Fighting Ensifera. Martina Siebert, 157 III · TIME 11 · Contesting the Box: Museums and Repatriation. Stewart Allen, 169 12 · Archaeology and Cigarettes: 'Ekphora' and 'Periphora' of the Archaeological Identity through Cigarette Packs. Styliana Galiniki and Eleftheria Akrivopoulou, 187 13 · More than a Toy Box: Dandanah and the Sea of Stories. Artemis Yagou, 203 IV · CARGO 14 · The Ur-Box: Multispecies Take-off from Noah's Ark to Animal Air Cargo. Nils Güttler, Martina Schlünder, Susanne Bauer, 215 15 · Parcels Render Neglected People Visible. Tanja Hammel, 231 16 · Boxes, Infrastructure and the Materiality of Moral Relations: Aid and Respect after Cyclone Pam. Alexandra Widmer, 241 V · BLACK 17 · 'As Modern as Tomorrow': The Medicine Cabinet. Deanna Day, 255 18 · The Green Minna: Transporting Police Detainees in Imperial Berlin. Eric J. Engstrom, 271 19 · Scaling Up from the Bench: Fermentation Tank. Victoria Lee, 289 20 · Deep Time History: The Lure of the Black Box. Dagmar Schäfer, 307 VI · TEXT 21 · Panels and Frames: Toward a New Relationship between Text and Image in Academic Writing. Pit Arens and Martina Schlünder, 327 22 · Analogue Privacy: The Paper Shredder as a Technology for Knowledge Destruction. Sarah Blacker, 365 VII · ICE 23 · Biobank Boxes: Technologies of Population. Susanne Bauer, 381 24 · The Magic of Dropbox, its Virtuality and Materiality. Shih-Pei Chen, 397 VIII · ANXIETY 25 · Domestic Reservoirs: Managing Drinking Water in Taiwanese Households. Yi-Ping Cheng, 409 26 · Keep Calm and Carry One: The Civilian Gas Mask Case and its Containment of British Emotions. Mats Fridlund, 425 27 · Cardboard Box: The Politics of Materiality. Maria Renetzi, 443 IX · COUNT 28 · Petri dish (boîte de Petri, Petrischale). Mathias de Grote, 459 29 · Prussian Census Box: Moving and Freezing Data. Christine von Oertzen, 473 30 · Black-Boxing Knowledge: Glass Dosimeters and Governmental Control. Maria Rentetzi, 481 X · MIRROR 31 · The Mirror Trap. Etienne S. Benson, 493 32 · Shifting Medical Bottles: In Between Medical and Indigenous Worlds. Johanna Gonçalves Martín, 505 33 · Guarding the Memory: Photographic Glass Plates Negatives' Boxes. Mirka Palioura, Spyridoula Pyrpili, Myrto Vouleli, 525 34 · Lousy Research: The History of Typhus Vaccine Production, 1915 - 1945. Martina Schlünder, 539 XI · TOOL 35 · The Mechanic's Toolbox and Tool Chest: A Nexus of the Personal and the Social. Don Duprez, 559 36 · Surgeons' Chests from the Mary Rose. Hanako Endo, 571 37 · Ruminations on an Electrotherapeutic Box. Jan Eric Olsén, 583 38 · Reliquary: A Box for a Relic. Lucy Razzall, 597 39 · The Research Box. Bonnie Mak and Julia Pollack, 607 Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press 04 01 20200812 02 WORLD 06 15 9781912729012 06 15 9781912729029 06 15 9781912729043 06 15 9781912729036 WORLD 09 Mattering Press 20 01 urn:uuid:8a20a285-bb77-4964-a8e5-a625267738ad 03 15 9781912729241 00 EB E101 10 01 01 Concealing for Freedom The Making of Encryption, Secure Messaging and Digital Liberties 1 A01 Ksenia Ermoshina Ksenia Ermoshina and Francesca Musiani are tenured researchers at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). They are based at the Centre for Internet and Society, which Francesca co-founded and co-directs. From 2016 to 2018, Ksenia and Francesca worked within the H2020 project NEXTLEAP (NEXT-generation techno-social and Legal Encryption, Access and Privacy). Their research explores Internet infrastructures and architectures as tools of governance (and resistance) in today’s digital world. 2 A01 Francesca Musiani Ksenia Ermoshina and Francesca Musiani are tenured researchers at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). They are based at the Centre for Internet and Society, which Francesca co-founded and co-directs. From 2016 to 2018, Ksenia and Francesca worked within the H2020 project NEXTLEAP (NEXT-generation techno-social and Legal Encryption, Access and Privacy). Their research explores Internet infrastructures and architectures as tools of governance (and resistance) in today’s digital world. 3 A23 Laura DeNardis 01 eng 00 272 03 10 SOC026000 10 SOC071000 10 SOC063000 01 06 03 00 Concealing for Freedom: The Making of Encryption, Secure Messaging and Digital Liberties sets out to explore one of the core battlegrounds of Internet governance: the encryption of online communications. Current debates around encryption have fundamental implications for our individual liberties and collective presence on the Internet. Encryption of communications at scale and in increasingly usable ways has become a matter of public concern, especially since Edward Snowden’s 2013 revelations. A new cryptographic imaginary is taking hold, which sees encryption as a necessary precondition for the formation of networked publics. At the same time, there have been major evolutions and accelerations in the field of secure communications, prompted in part by the cryptography community’s renewed efforts to create next-generation secure messaging protocols and applications.It is vital that we unveil the very recent, and sometimes less recent history of these protocols and their key applications. The book takes on this task, in order to show how the opportunities and constraints they provide to Internet users came about, and how both developer communities and institutions are working towards making them available for the largest possible audience. It explores how efforts towards this goal are built upon interwoven stories about technical development and architectural choices, about community-building – and about Internet governance and politics. In doing so, the book focuses on the experience of encryption in a wide variety of contemporary secure messaging protocols and tools, and looks at the implications of these endeavors for the “making of” digital liberties on the Internet.Concealing for Freedom provides two key empirical and theoretical contributions. Firstly, it enriches a social sciences-informed understanding of encryption. It does so by examining how different solutions of cryptography for secure communications are created, developed, enacted and governed, and what this diverse experience of encryption, operating across many different sites, means for online civil liberties. Secondly, it contributes to understanding the social and political implications of particular design choices when it comes to the technical architecture of digital networks, in particular their degree of (de-)centralization. The book explores developers’ actions and their interactions with other stakeholders, for instance users, security trainers, standardising bodies, and funding organizations. It also examines their interactions with the technical artifacts they develop, in which a core common objective is to create tools that “conceal for freedom” even as how this objective is met differs according to technical architectures, the user publics being targeted and the tools’ underlying values and business models. 04 00 0. Introduction 1. Concealing from whom? Threat modelling and risk as a relational concept 2. Centralised architectures as informal standards for ‘control by design’ 3. Peer-to-peer encryption and decentralised governance: A not-so-obvious pair 4. Federation: Treading the line between technical compromise and ideological choice 5. What is ‘good’ security? Categorising and evaluating encrypted messaging tools 6. Conclusions: Encrypted communications as a site of social, political and technical controversy Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press 04 01 20220419 02 WORLD 06 15 9781912729227 06 15 9781912729234 06 15 9781912729258 06 15 9781912729241 WORLD 09 Mattering Press 20 01 urn:uuid:4d3289a8-61e7-47b4-b94c-9f30059d5a4e 03 15 9781912729135 00 EB E101 10 01 01 Democratic Situations 1 A01 Andreas Birkbak Andreas Birkbak is associate professor at Aalborg University in Copenhagen and a co-founding member of the Techno-Anthropology Laboratory (TANTLab). Andreas’ research focuses on public participation and digital methods. His recent publications include ‘Participatory Data Design’ (book chapter in Making and Doing, MIT Press 2021, with Jensen, Madsen and Munk). Andreas has been a visiting scholar at multiple universities, including at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (Warwick) and the Centre for the Sociology of Innovation (École des Mines de Paris). 2 B01 Irina Papazu Irina Papazu is associate professor in the Technologies in Practice research group at the IT University of Copenhagen. She has published a book in Danish on Actor-Network Theory in Practice with colleague Brit Ross Winthereik. She heads the Agile State working group in the Center for Digital Welfare, and she splits her research time between public sector digitalisation and public participation in climate change and energy transitions. 01 eng 00 274 03 10 POL000000 01 06 03 00 Democratic Situations challenges researchers and students in Science & Technology Studies and related fields to treat democracy as an empirical phenomenon. This means leaving behind off-the-shelf theoretical notions of democracy that may have travelled into STS unexamined. The alternative strategy pursued in this volume is to pay as much analytical attention to the study of democratic politics as STS has previously offered to familiar topics of science and technology.<break/>This timely collection of empirical stories and conceptual inventions leads the way by showing how the making and doing of democracy can be placed at the centre of relational research. The book turns the well-known sites of contemporary Euro-American participatory democracy, such as elections, bureaucracies, public debate and citizen participation, into fluctuating democratic situations where supposedly untouchable democratic ideals are shaped, contested and warped in practice. The fact that Euro-American participatory democracy is often upheld as an ideal for the rest of the world makes it all the more important to study how it is a situated, distributed, material, emergent, heterogenous, fragile and at times faltering figure and project.<break/>Through situated analyses, the authors demonstrate that democracy cannot be reduced to theoretical ideals and schemes of conflict, institutions, or deliberation. Instead, the volume offers an urgently needed empirically driven renewal of our understanding of democratic politics in a time when conventional ideas increasingly fail to capture current events such as Brexit, Trump and Covid19.<break/>The twelve chapters are organised into three sections. The first part, entitled Interfaces of technodemocracy, focuses on how democratic politics is co-shaped by its interfaces with more or less rigid institutions and bureaucracies. The second section, Technosciences, democracy and situated enactments of participation, emphasises the relationships between science and public participation. The third part called Reconfigurations of democratic politics with new nonhuman actors focuses on the role of material objects, especially new digital technologies, in democratic politics. 04 00 List of Figures Contributors Acknowledgements 1) Introducing democratic situations Andreas Birkbak and Irina Papazu PART I: The interfaces of technodemocracy 2) The proposition: Compiling and negotiating democracy in a Danish municipality Anne Kathrine Vadgaard 3) Technocratic activism: Environmental organisations, carbon markets and European bureaucracy Véra Ehrenstein 4) Use yourself, kick yourself! Learning from a newspaper how (not) to do good public debate Andreas Birkbak PART II: Technosciences, democracy and situated enactments of participation 5) Leaks and Overflows: Two contrasting cases of hybrid participation in environmental governance Linda Soneryd and Göran Sundqvist 6) STS and democracy co-produced? The making of public dialogue as a technology of participation Helen Pallett and Jason Chilvers 7) A democratic inquiry launched and lost: The Dutch national societal dialogue on nanotechnology Lotte Krabbenborg 8) Convene, represent, deliberate? Reasoning the democratic in embryonic stem cell research oversight committees Rachel Douglas-Jones 9) The dark side of care? Wayward participants in Samsø’s renewable energy transition Irina Papazu PART III: Reconfiguring democratic politics with new nonhuman actors 10) Enlisting the body politic: Governmentalised technologies of participation in digital diplomacy Alexei Tsinovoi 11) Democratising software? Situating political campaigning technology in the UK’s EU referendum Laurie Waller and David Moats 12) The conceived child: Material politics in the Polish ‘war on gender’ Andrzej W. Nowak Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press 04 01 20220518 02 WORLD 06 15 9781912729302 06 15 9781912729128 06 15 9781912729319 06 15 9781912729135 WORLD 09 Mattering Press 20 01 urn:uuid:2c647e88-873b-42c3-bdbd-52162bd9aaf8 03 15 9780995527737 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Energy Babble 1 A01 Andy Boucher 2 A01 Bill Gaver 3 A01 Tobie Kerridge 4 A01 Mike Michael 5 A01 Katherine Moline 6 A01 Liliana Ovalle 7 A01 Matthew Plummer-Fernandez 8 A01 Alex Wilkie 01 eng 00 152 03 10 DES000000 10 TEC016020 10 SOC026040 01 06 03 00 This is the story of a set of computational devices called Energy Babbles. The product of a collaboration between designers and STS researchers, Energy Babbles are like automated talk radios obsessed with energy. Synthesised voices, punctuated by occasional jingles, recount energy policy announcements, remarks about energy conservation made on social media, information about current energy demand and production, and comments entered by other Babble users.Developed for members of UK community groups working to promote sustainable energy practices, the Energy Babbles were designed to reflect the complex situations they navigate, to provide information and encourage communication, and to help shed light on their engagements with energy policy and practice. This book tells the story of the Babbles from a mix of design and STS perspectives, suggesting how design may benefit from the perspectives of STS, and how STS may take an interventionist, design-led approach to the study of emerging technological issues.Chapters<break/>Energy Babble is organised into three main sections – Framing, Designing, and Circulating – that trace the story of how a team of design and STS researchers made and deployed a set of computational devices to UK–based community groups. The book is introduced by way of a preface and introduction and contains subsections that describe the various ways in which the research into local energy practices was conducted. Katherine Moline provides a reflection on her three-year experience of curating exhibitions that features the Energy Babble device and the book comes to a close with an Afterword by Bill Gaver. 04 00 Preface 7 Introducing the project: Entangling speculation, design, and STS 10 ____ Framing, 13 · A prehistory. Mike Michael, 14 · Project identity, 16 · Fieldwork, 17 · A workshop, 28 · Cultural probes, 32 · My energy monitor: Chronicle of a failed attempt. Liliana Ovalle, 36 · Rescripting monitors, 38 Designing, 41 · Workbooks, 42 · That's not my name. Bill Gaver, 46 · Brief, 48 · Why an 'Energy Babble'? Gill Gaver, 50 · Design and development, 51 · Hardware, 52 · Sound, 55 · Sound design. Alex Wilkie, 56 · Software, 61 · Babblebot stories. Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, 62 · Form, 66 · Shaping the Energy Babble. Liliana Ovalle, 68 · Production, 74 · The microphone and the algorithm. Andy Boucher, 79 · Studios, problems, publics. Alex Wilkie, 90 Circulating, 99 · Deploying, 100 · 'Engaging with' and 'engaged by': Publics and communities, design, and sociology. Tobie Kerridge and Mike Michael, 103 · Using, 111 · Design and Science & Technology Studies. Mike Michael, 115 · Community as a state of mind. Liliana Ovalle, 126 · Engaging with the community, 128 · Living with the Energy Babble. Bill Gaver, 129 · Exhibiting and engaging, 134 · Three years of living with an Energy Babble. Katherine Moline, 136 · The stuff of method: Open things and closed objects. Mike Michael, 141 Afterword, 148 Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press 04 01 20180904 02 WORLD 06 15 9780995527720 06 15 9780995527737 WORLD 09 Mattering Press 20 01 urn:uuid:95e15115-4009-4cb0-8824-011038e3c116 03 15 9781912729098 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Energy Worlds in Experiment 1 A01 James Maguire James Maguire is Assistant Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. His work focuses on the manifold interfaces between, and within, environmental and digital concerns. His current book project is an ethnographic exploration of the temporal and political conse- quences of energy extraction in Iceland. His ongoing research is oriented towards sustain- able digitalization; an enquiry into how digitalization has become an object of attention for sustainable thinking. This involves projects that explore the paradoxical relationship between the deleterious environmental effects of digital processes and their promissory imaginaries of climate mitigation, as well as those that speculate about, and activate, alternative ways of creating more ethically inflected digital futures. 2 B01 Laura Watts Laura Watts is a writer, poet, ethnographer of futures, and Senior Lecturer in Energy & Society within Geosciences, University of Edinburgh. As a science and technology stud- ies (STS) scholar, her research is concerned with the effect of ‘edge’ landscapes on how the future is imagined and made, along with an exploration of different writing methods. For the past decade she has been working with people and places around energy futures in the Orkney islands, Scotland. Her latest book Energy at the End of the World: An Orkney Islands Saga (MIT Press) was shortlisted for the Saltire Research Book of the Year, and she won the International Cultural Innovation Prize 2017, as part of the Reconstrained Design Group, for a community-built energy storage device designed from spare parts. For more on her work see www.sand14.com. 3 B01 Brit Ross Winthereik Brit Ross Winthereik is full Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen in the Technologies in Practice group and head of the Center for Digital Welfare. She has published on public sector digitalisation, information infrastructures, and ethnography for anthropology and STS audiences. She is co-author of Monitoring Movements in Development Aid: Recursive Infrastructures and Partnerships (MIT Press, 2013) with Casper Bruun Jensen, and co-editor of Electrifying Anthropology: Exploring Electrical Practices and Infrastructures (Bloomsbury, 2019) with Simone Abram and Thomas Yarrow, and of Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis (Duke, 2021) with Andrea Ballestero. She is part of the Anthropology of Technology network which edits Handbook for the Anthropology of Technology (Palgrave Handbook Series, 2022). She is a frequent participant in public debates on issues related to public digitalization, and appointed member of the Digital Advisory Council for the Academy of the Technical Sciences in Denmark. She was PI of the Alien Energy project (2013–2016) and of the Data as Relation project (2017–2020). 01 eng 00 213 03 23 SOC002010 10 SOC071000 10 SCI024000 01 06 03 00 Energy Worlds in Experiment is an experiment in writing about energy and an exploration of energy infrastructures as experiments. Twenty authors have written collaborative chapters that examine energy politics and practices, from electricity cables and energy monitors to swamps and estuaries. Each chapter proposes a unique format to tell energy worlds differently and to stimulate energy imaginaries: thesis, propositions, interviews, stories, card games, and a graphic novel. The book offers practitioners, students, and scholars a range of new tools to help think, engage and critique energy politics, practices and infrastructures. 04 00 List of Figures 7 Contributors 9 Acknowledgements 15 Foreword: Setting the scene 17 ____ 1 · Introduction. James Maguire, Laura Watts and Brit Ross Winthereik, 21 2 · The power of stories. Ann-Sofie Kall, Rebecca Ford and Lea Schick, 34 3 · Propositional politics. Endre Dányi and Michaela Spencer, James Maguire, Hannah Knox, Andrea Ballestero, 66 4 · Five theses on energy polities. Brit Ross Winthereik, Stefan Helmreich, Damian O’Doherty, Mónica Amador-Jiménez, Noortje Marres, 95 5 · Unda: A graphic novel of energy encounters. Laura Watts, Cymene Howe, Geoffrey C. Bowker, with art by Neil Ford, lettering by Rob Jones, 119 6 · An energy experiment: Tests, trials and ElectroTrumps. Jamie Cross, Simone Abram, 152 7 · Interview: The anthropology of energy, Dominic Boyer interviewed by James Maguire, 194 8 · Conclusion. James Maguire, Laura Watts and Brit Ross Winthereik, 209 Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press 04 01 20210501 02 WORLD 06 15 9781912729081 06 15 9781912729098 WORLD 09 Mattering Press 20 01 urn:uuid:accee66a-002d-4879-a77c-0d8cfb917d4e 03 15 9781912729272 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Engineering the Climate Science, Politics and Visions of Control 1 A01 Julia Schubert Julia Schubert is a sociologist, exploring interrelations between science and politics. She examines how scientific expertise shapes political realities and how political realities, in turn, determine scientific research topics, cultures, and methods. Julia holds a PhD from the University of Bonn. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Speyer University, as well as a junior fellow at Bielefeld University’s Institute for Advanced Study (ZiF) and a member of Brown University’s Climate Social Science Network (CSSN). 01 eng 00 280 03 10 SOC026000 10 SCI092000 10 HIS036060 01 06 03 00 Notions of the impending climate crisis have pushed a set of highly contested techno-scientific measures onto policy agendas around the world. Suggestions to deliberately alter, to engineer, the Earth’s climate have gained political currency in recent years not as a positive vision of techno-scientific innovation, but as a daunting measure of last resort. The controversial status of various so-called climate engineering proposals raises a simple, yet pressing question: How has it has come to this? And, more specifically, how did such contested measures earn their place on policy agendas, despite enormous scientific complexities and fierce political contestation?This book approaches these questions by re-contextualizing the history of climate engineering within the larger history of political efforts to cultivate climate science for the state. It tells the story of climate engineering as a story of historically shifting alliances between climate science and politics. Drawing on policy records, archival material, and expert interviews, the text follows the turbulent trajectory of what we now refer to as climate engineering through U.S. policy. Instead of essentialising climate engineering, the text demonstrates how historically specific versions of climate engineering have linked scientific to political agendas from the turn of the twentieth century to the teens of the new millennium. This perspective reveals how efforts to deliberately modify and control the climate have always been couched in the political struggles of their time.Global societal problems, such as climate change, financial crises, or pandemics have brought the political relevance of scientific expertise to the foreground. This book speaks to scholarship in sociology and science studies, seeking to illuminate the essential entanglements between efforts to understand and efforts to govern such problems. By giving climate engineering a life of its own and following its dynamic trajectory as a contested object of expert work, this book sheds light on the reflexive and historically contingent interplay of science and politics as two distinct, yet increasingly interdependent, realms of society. The text disentangles the complex web of scientific inquiry and policy making — of experts and politicians, observational devices and expert infrastructures — that have given climate engineering its particular shape over the years, challenging us to fundamentally rethink our understanding of the relationship between science and politics. 04 00 Introduction Part I: A ‘Bad Idea’ Breaks into Politics 1 · Confronting the crisis 2 · The emerging politics of climate engineering Conclusion (Part I) Part II: Early Visions of Control 3 · Where Does the Story Begin? 4 · Years of Fracture Conclusion (Part II) Part III: Engineering the Climate – Scaling the Issue and Suggesting Control 5 · Assembling an engineering problem 6 · Devising a project of climatological cultivation and control Conclusion (Part III) Conclusion: Scientific expertise and the politics of a ‘bad idea whose time has come’ Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press 04 01 20211115 02 WORLD 06 15 9781912729265 06 15 9781912729272 WORLD 09 Mattering Press 20 01 urn:uuid:91917b2d-ac8c-4a33-bb29-305f97241c4d 03 15 9781912729159 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Environmental Alterities 1 A01 Cristóbal Bonelli 2 B01 Antonia Walford 01 eng 00 248 03 23 Science and Technology Studies 10 SOC026000 23 Environmental Politics 10 SOC002000 10 POL000000 10 PSY000000 01 06 03 00 In the context of accelerating environmental crises and exhausted intellectual paradigms, this book asks what comes after ‘after nature’. Instead of demanding new models and approaches, it invites its readers to look to the endpoints and failures of what is already known, in order to generate alternative forms of ethical engagement with worlds both on this planet, and beyond it. Drawing together scholarship from across science and technology studies, philosophy, and anthropology and bringing it into conversation with rich ethnographic and empirical material, the book asks how we might potentialise the contradictions and oppositions of critical social scientific thinking in order to develop a mode of paradoxical engagement that is in constant movement between knowledge and its edges, practices and their limits, and which allows us to relate to that which is excessive to relations and relationality.The chapters in the book range across very different empirical settings and communities of people, from fishermen in the Scottish seas, the sea folk of Indonesian archipelagos, indigenous peoples in forests in Lowland Ecuador, primatologists in the jungle of DR Congo, the personal and domestic space of living with dogs and the cosmological scale of planetary interactions. Each chapter explores different modes of environmental relationality and alterity by grappling with the spaces in-between – the contradictions, uncertainties, limits, excesses and liminalities which make up people’s everyday relations with their environments. The chapters are accompanied by in-depth conversations between scholars who frankly discuss the proposals of the book and the arguments of each chapter, with a view to inviting further reflection and discussion amongst the book’s readers. As the chapters and conversations in this book show, admitting that we still do not know what the environment is, even in times of crisis, can be a form of hopeful, humble environmental politics. 04 00 List of Figures 7 Contributors 8 Acknowledgements 12 Introduction: Environmental alterities. Cristóbal Bonelli and Antonia Walford, 13 SECTION 1: SEAS The woman who shed her skin: Towards a humble anthropocentrism in the Outer Hebrides. Magnus Course, 45 Visits from octopus and crocodile kin: rethinking human-sea relations through amphibious twinship in Indonesia. Annet Pauwelussen, 69 Environmental infrastructural alterities and communicative possibilities. A conversation between Penny Harvey and Stefan Helmreich, 95 SECTION 2: FORESTS The non-relational forest: Trees, oil palms and the limits to relational ontology in lowland Ecuador. Stine Krøijer, 117 Thinking in forests. Lys Alcayna-Stevens, 138 Easy gesturing or inventing politics? A conversation between Marisol de la Cadena and Casper Bruun Jensen, 161 SECTION 3: COLLECTIVITIES To live and learn. Notes on alterity and togetherness, or: On living with dogs. Marianne de Laet, 185 Planetary alterity, solar cosmopolitics and the Parliament of Planets. Bronislaw Szerszynski, 204 Relating to resistances, curating antagonisms. 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