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urn:uuid:4647e252-40e8-4df2-8603-1f0c16329b7f 03 01 01 urn:uuid:4647e252-40e8-4df2-8603-1f0c16329b7f 15 9781912729197 06 10.28938/9781912729180 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 01 01 With Microbes 1 B01 21 0000-0001-7459-0646 Charlotte Brives 2 A01 21 0000-0002-6025-2686 Matthäus Rest 3 B01 21 0000-0003-3401-7727 Salla Sariola 01 eng 00 290 03 20 Science and Technology Studies 10 SOC002010 10 SOC019000 10 SOC071000 03 00 <p>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.</p> 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 20 00 Open Access Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press Manchester, UK 04 01 20211006 13 15 9781912729180 09 Mattering Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/with-microbes-epdf-v2.pdf 99 01 09 Mattering Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.matteringpress.org/books/with-microbes 99 01