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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 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. 01 00 03 02 https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/WithMicrobesThumb.jpg Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press 16 Finnish Academy of Science and Letters 01 grantnumber 316941 16 Finnish Cultural Foundation 01 grantnumber 0116947-3 16 Kone Foundation 01 grantnumber 201906614 16 Kone Foundation 01 grantnumber 201802186 16 Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine 01 grantnumber 2018-1R40218 16 Werner Siemens-Stiftung Manchester, UK 04 19 2021 06 15 9781912729180 06 15 9781912729197 06 15 9781912729210 06 15 9781912729203 09 Mattering Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.matteringpress.org/books/with-microbes 99 04 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 04 urn:uuid:ef825a4b-82f7-4fe9-8906-ce6146985d21 03 01 01 urn:uuid:ef825a4b-82f7-4fe9-8906-ce6146985d21 15 9780993144950 06 10.28938/9780993144943 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 01 01 Practising Comparison Logics, Relations, Collaborations 1 B01 21 0000-0003-0583-3493 Joe Deville 2 B01 Michael Guggenheim 3 B01 Zuzana Hrdličková 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. 01 00 03 02 https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Practising_comparison_hr.jpg Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press Manchester, UK 04 19 2016 06 15 9780993144943 06 15 9780993144950 09 Mattering Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Practising_Comparison__-_2016_-_ePDF.pdf 99 04 09 Mattering Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.matteringpress.org/books/practising-comparison 99 04 urn:uuid:60f93b71-e6ce-4507-8038-3c7ca049eb35 03 01 01 urn:uuid:60f93b71-e6ce-4507-8038-3c7ca049eb35 15 9781912729111 06 10.28938/9781912729111 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 01 01 Sensing In/Security Sensors as Transnational Security Infrastructures 1 B01 21 0000-0003-0583-8788 Nina Klimburg-Witjes 2 B01 21 0000-0002-6928-2099 Nikolaus Poechhacker 3 B01 Geoffrey C. Bowker 4 Z01 21 0000-0001-9752-4684 Lucy Suchman 01 eng 00 312 03 93 JBF 20 Transnational Security Infrastructures 93 JBFV 20 Sensors 93 JHB 20 Securitisation practices 20 Surveillance 20 Critical Security Studies 20 Science and Technology Studies 01 06 03 00 Sensing In/Security: Sensors as Transnational Security Infrastructures investigates how sensors and sensing practices enact regimes of security and insecurity. It extends long-standing concerns with infrastructuring to emergent modes of surveillance and control by exploring how digitally networked sensors shape securitisation practices. Contributions in this volume examine how sensing devices gain political and epistemic relevance in various forms of in/security, from border control, regulation, and epidemiological tracking, to aerial surveillance and hacking. Instead of focusing on specific sensory devices and their consequences, this volume explores the complex and sometimes invisible political, cultural and ethical processes of infrastructuring in/security. 01 00 03 02 https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/sensing_insecurity_cover_thumb-1.jpg Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press Manchester, UK 04 19 2021 06 15 9781912729104 06 15 9781912729111 09 Mattering Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Sensing-Insecurity-ePDF-v2.pdf 99 04 09 Mattering Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.matteringpress.org/books/sensing-insecurity 99 04 urn:uuid:5dc90ef2-3d6b-4696-9881-e0b6db270fa2 03 01 01 urn:uuid:5dc90ef2-3d6b-4696-9881-e0b6db270fa2 15 9781912729364 06 10.28938/mw20-c7f3 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 01 01 Technoscientific Globalisation from Below 1 B01 21 0000-0003-3836-745X Mathieu Quet 2 B01 21 0000-0003-1337-6501 Koichi Kameda 3 B01 21 0000-0002-7260-3893 Jessica Pourraz 4 B01 21 0000-0001-6234-1837 Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar 01 eng 00 335 03 10 BUS068000 93 JB 93 JP 10 TEC072000 93 TB 10 TEC052000 93 GTQ 93 GTP 93 GTS 93 KCM 93 1FK 93 1KLSE 93 1HFDH 93 1FB 93 1FPC 93 1HSU 93 1HBC 93 1KLSB 93 1H 93 1KL 93 1F 93 3MR 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. 01 00 03 02 https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/PastedGraphic-3-600x910.png Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press 16 French National Research Agency 16 Institut Francilien Recherche Innovation Sociétés 16 Global Research Institute of Paris Manchester, UK 04 19 2025 06 15 9781912729388 06 15 9781912729364 06 15 9781912729371 06 15 9781912729357 09 Mattering Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Technoscientific-Globalisation-from-Below-ePDF-v3-2.pdf 99 04 09 Mattering Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.matteringpress.org/books/technoscientific-globalisation-from-below 99 04 urn:uuid:8610efab-7a5b-4078-9770-ab39d79329d2 03 01 01 urn:uuid:8610efab-7a5b-4078-9770-ab39d79329d2 15 9781912729326 06 10.28938/9781912729340 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 01 01 The Ethnographic Case 1 B01 21 0000-0002-0895-7136 Emily Yates-Doerr 2 B01 21 0000-0002-6620-2495 Christine Labuski 01 eng 00 256 03 93 JHMC 10 SOC002010 93 MBS 10 MED058090 93 JBSL11 10 SOC062000 93 JBFM 10 SOC029000 10 LAW027000 93 LNFJ2 93 JBSJ 10 SOC064000 93 JWX 10 POL012000 93 MBPN 10 MED113000 93 RNP 10 SCI092000 93 RGBF 10 SCI030000 93 JBFG 10 SOC066000 10 HEA024000 93 VFDW 93 QRAM 10 REL028000 93 ATDS 10 PER011000 10 BUS070150 93 KNAT 10 TEC010030 93 TQSW 10 MED022020 93 MJCJ2 10 TEC031010 93 THVS 10 MED033000 93 MKC 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. 01 00 03 02 https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ethnographic-case-cover-1046x1536.png Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press Manchester 04 19 2023 06 15 9781912729340 06 15 9781912729326 06 15 9781912729333 06 15 9781912729074 09 Mattering Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/The-Ethnographic-Case-2nd-Ed.pdf 99 04 09 Mattering Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.matteringpress.org/books/the-ethnographic-case-2nd-edition 99 04 urn:uuid:cc201ee7-8f10-4ee8-b182-1797b644b037 03 01 01 urn:uuid:cc201ee7-8f10-4ee8-b182-1797b644b037 15 9781912729005 06 10.28938/9780995527799 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 01 01 An Anthropology of Common Ground Awkward Encounters in Heritage Work 1 A01 21 0000-0002-0833-115X 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. 01 00 03 02 https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/AOCG_front_433x650.jpg Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press Manchester 04 19 2018 06 15 9780995527799 06 15 9781912729005 09 Mattering Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.matteringpress.org/books/an-anthropology-of-common-ground 99 04 09 Mattering Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Brichet-2018-An-Anthropology-of-Common-Ground.pdf 99 04 urn:uuid:6852ffab-b996-4d80-a8c6-67be81eb9d20 03 01 01 urn:uuid:6852ffab-b996-4d80-a8c6-67be81eb9d20 15 9781912729029 06 10.28938/9781912729012 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 01 01 Boxes A Field Guide 1 B01 Susanne Bauer 2 B01 Martina Schlünder 3 B01 21 0000-0002-1940-8116 Maria Rentetzi 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. 01 00 03 02 https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Boxes_cover_thumb.jpg Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press Manchester, UK 04 19 2020 06 15 9781912729012 06 15 9781912729029 06 15 9781912729043 06 15 9781912729036 09 Mattering Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.matteringpress.org/books/boxes 99 04 09 Mattering Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Boxes-ePDF.pdf 99 04 urn:uuid:8a20a285-bb77-4964-a8e5-a625267738ad 03 01 01 urn:uuid:8a20a285-bb77-4964-a8e5-a625267738ad 15 9781912729234 06 10.28938/9781912729227 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 01 01 Concealing for Freedom The Making of Encryption, Secure Messaging and Digital Liberties 1 A01 21 0000-0001-6774-8767 Ksenia Ermoshina 2 A01 21 0000-0001-8343-6122 Francesca Musiani 3 Z01 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. 01 00 03 02 https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/9781912729227-Perfect@0.25x.jpg Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press Manchester, UK 04 19 2022 06 15 9781912729227 06 15 9781912729234 06 15 9781912729258 06 15 9781912729241 09 Mattering Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Concealing-for-Freedom-ePDF.pdf 99 04 09 Mattering Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.matteringpress.org/books/concealing-for-freedom 99 04 urn:uuid:4d3289a8-61e7-47b4-b94c-9f30059d5a4e 03 01 01 urn:uuid:4d3289a8-61e7-47b4-b94c-9f30059d5a4e 15 9781912729128 06 10.28938/9781912729302 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 01 01 Democratic Situations 1 B01 21 0000-0001-9283-1677 Andreas Birkbak 2 B01 21 0000-0002-4178-3676 Irina Papazu 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. 01 00 03 02 https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Democratic-Situations-1200x1802.jpg Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press Manchester, UK 04 19 2022 06 15 9781912729302 06 15 9781912729128 06 15 9781912729319 06 15 9781912729135 09 Mattering Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.matteringpress.org/books/democratic-situations 99 04 09 Mattering Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Democratic_Situations_9781912729128.pdf 99 04 urn:uuid:2c647e88-873b-42c3-bdbd-52162bd9aaf8 03 01 01 urn:uuid:2c647e88-873b-42c3-bdbd-52162bd9aaf8 15 9780995527737 06 10.28938/9780995527720 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 01 01 Energy Babble 1 A01 21 0000-0002-4226-7059 Andy Boucher 2 A01 Bill Gaver 3 A01 Tobie Kerridge 4 A01 Mike Michael 5 A01 21 0000-0001-6973-9784 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. 01 00 03 02 https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/EnergyBabble_small.jpeg Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press Manchester, UK 04 19 2018 06 15 9780995527720 06 15 9780995527737 09 Mattering Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.matteringpress.org/books/energy-babble 99 04 09 Mattering Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/EnergyBabble.pdf 99 04 urn:uuid:95e15115-4009-4cb0-8824-011038e3c116 03 01 01 urn:uuid:95e15115-4009-4cb0-8824-011038e3c116 15 9781912729098 06 10.28938/9781912729098 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 01 01 Energy Worlds in Experiment 1 B01 21 0000-0001-5081-1811 James Maguire 2 B01 21 0000-0001-9839-7939 Laura Watts 3 B01 21 0000-0002-1837-2385 Brit Ross Winthereik 01 eng 00 213 03 20 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. 01 00 03 02 https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/energy_worlds_cover_thumb.jpg Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press 16 The Danish Independent Research Council 01 programname FSE 01 projectname Marine Renewable Energy as Alien 01 grantnumber 0602-02551B Manchester, UK 04 19 2021 06 15 9781912729081 06 15 9781912729098 09 Mattering Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Energy-Worlds-ePDF-v1-1.pdf 99 04 09 Mattering Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.matteringpress.org/books/energy-worlds 99 04 urn:uuid:accee66a-002d-4879-a77c-0d8cfb917d4e 03 01 01 urn:uuid:accee66a-002d-4879-a77c-0d8cfb917d4e 15 9781912729272 06 10.28938/9781912729265 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 01 01 Engineering the Climate Science, Politics and Visions of Control 1 A01 Julia Schubert 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. 01 00 03 02 https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/9781912729265_Thumb.jpg Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press Manchester, UK 04 19 2021 06 15 9781912729265 06 15 9781912729272 09 Mattering Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Engineering-the-Climate-ePDF-v1.pdf 99 04 09 Mattering Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.matteringpress.org/books/engineering-the-climate 99 04 urn:uuid:91917b2d-ac8c-4a33-bb29-305f97241c4d 03 01 01 urn:uuid:91917b2d-ac8c-4a33-bb29-305f97241c4d 15 9781912729159 06 10.28938/9781912729142 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 01 01 Environmental Alterities 1 B01 21 0000-0001-8109-0789 Cristóbal Bonelli 2 B01 Antonia Walford 01 eng 00 248 03 20 Science and Technology Studies 10 SOC026000 20 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. 01 00 03 02 https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/EnvironmentalAlteritiesThumb.jpg Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press Manchester, UK 04 19 2021 06 15 9781912729142 06 15 9781912729159 06 15 9781912729173 06 15 9781912729166 09 Mattering Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.matteringpress.org/books/environmental-alterities 99 04 09 Mattering Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/environmental-alterities-ePDF-v2.pdf 99 04 urn:uuid:89aef935-5c74-48b5-9874-6182202d8d46 03 01 01 urn:uuid:89aef935-5c74-48b5-9874-6182202d8d46 15 9780995527782 06 10.28938/9780995527775 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 01 01 Ghost-Managed Medicine Big Pharma’s Invisible Hands 1 A01 21 0000-0002-4635-8142 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. 01 00 03 02 https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/GMM_front_433x650.jpg Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press Manchester, UK 04 19 2018 06 15 9780995527775 06 15 9780995527782 09 Mattering Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Sismondo-Ghost-managed-Medicine-2018-1.pdf 99 04 09 Mattering Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.matteringpress.org/books/ghost-managed-medicine 99 04 urn:uuid:1f4a0ad0-d8b8-4e10-bfb7-588a9b69c303 03 01 01 urn:uuid:1f4a0ad0-d8b8-4e10-bfb7-588a9b69c303 15 9780993144974 06 10.28938/9780993144967 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 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. 01 00 03 02 https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Imagining_classrooms_hr.jpg Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press Manchester, UK 04 19 2016 06 15 9780993144967 06 15 9780993144974 09 Mattering Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Imagining_Classrooms_-_2016_-_ePDF.pdf 99 04 09 Mattering Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.matteringpress.org/books/imagining-classrooms 99 04 urn:uuid:091abd14-7bc0-4fe7-8194-552edb02b98b 03 01 01 urn:uuid:091abd14-7bc0-4fe7-8194-552edb02b98b 15 9780995527768 06 10.28938/9780995527768 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 01 01 Inventing the Social 1 B01 21 0000-0002-8237-6946 Noortje Marres 2 B01 Michael Guggenheim 3 B01 Alex Wilkie 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. 01 00 03 02 https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ITS-front-433x650.jpg Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press Manchester, UK 04 19 2018 06 15 9780995527751 06 15 9780995527768 09 Mattering Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.matteringpress.org/books/inventing-the-social 99 04 09 Mattering Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Marres-Guggenheim-Wilkie-Inventing-the-Social-2018-1.pdf 99 04 urn:uuid:e1af2b0d-06a2-4c79-8b11-7a1e08e5f41e 03 01 01 urn:uuid:e1af2b0d-06a2-4c79-8b11-7a1e08e5f41e 15 9780993144998 06 10.28938/9780993144981 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 01 01 Modes of Knowing Resources from the Baroque 1 B01 John Law 2 B01 21 0000-0001-7781-1491 Evelyn Ruppert 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. 01 00 03 02 https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Modes_of_knowing_hr.jpg Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press Manchester, UK 04 19 2016 06 15 9780993144981 06 15 9780993144998 09 Mattering Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Modes_of_Knowing_-_2016_-_ePDF.pdf 99 04 09 Mattering Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.matteringpress.org/books/modes-of-knowing 99 04 urn:uuid:0573507d-a5c8-4199-8b23-6b1131f36934 03 01 01 urn:uuid:0573507d-a5c8-4199-8b23-6b1131f36934 15 9780995527713 06 10.28938/9780995527706 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 01 01 On Curiosity The Art of Market Seduction 1 A01 21 0000-0002-0382-5660 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! 01 00 03 02 https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/On_curiosity_hr.jpg Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press Manchester, UK 04 19 2016 06 15 9780995527706 06 15 9780995527713 09 Mattering Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/On_Curiosity_-_2016_-_ePDF.pdf 99 04 09 Mattering Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.matteringpress.org/books/on-curiosity 99 04