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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