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The agency of a marmalade machine: Gender, class and mechanical gadgets in the British Kitchen, c.1870–1938

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the marmalade machine, a mechanical device designed to slice orange peel. These niche objects were manufactured between roughly 1870 and 1938 in Britain. As a so‐called ‘labour‐saving’ gadget, the marmalade machine sliced orange peel quickly and effectively, removing the tedious process of slicing orange peel by hand ...
Katie Carpenter
wiley   +1 more source

Wild animals in urban environment: Subjectivity and relations [PDF]

lo Squaderno, 2016
Cities prove to be hybrid environments. The concept of hybrid is derived from the writings of French philosopher Bruno Latour, who applied the concept to describe different phenomena that have embedded in them the generally made distinctions between ...
Nelly Mäekivi
doaj  

Wie (nicht)modern ist die Kritik an der Agrogentechnik?

Tr@jectoires, 2012
La dichotomie entre nature et culture est pensée comme l’une des bases de la société moderne. Selon Bruno Latour, cette division claire n’a cependant jamais correspondu à la réalité, le domaine social se constituant non seulement des humains, mais aussi ...
Anne Bundschuh
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A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
wiley   +1 more source

“Tracciare la rotta” secondo Bruno Latour

Quaderni di Sociologia, 2018
The intellectual trajectory of Bruno Latour and his contribution to Science and Technology Studies, from laboratory studies to the mapping of contemporary issues and controversies.
Massimiano Bucchi
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From Rating System to Thought Leadership: The Evolution of the Canada Green Building Council

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Green Building Social Movement Organizations encourage the adoption of green buildings, primarily by promoting sustainability rating tools. While numerous papers have explored the market impact of these sustainability rating tools, very few have examined either the lengthy and protracted process of their selection and enrollment by ...
J. J. McArthur, Stephen Dunne, Sarah Birrell Ivory   +2 more
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Ecology in Hartmut Rosa's Theory of Resonance: A Four‐Level Reconstruction

Dialog, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article discusses Hartmut Rosa's sociological theory of resonance with special emphasis on religion and ecology. In Rosa, resonance experiences refer to (always) participatory and (normally) enlivening world relations. I argue that Rosa's resonance theory is multi‐pronged and covers at least three interconnected levels.
Niels Henrik Gregersen
wiley   +1 more source

Bruno Latour (1947-2022)

Sociologie du travail, 2023
Dans l’œuvre que lègue Bruno Latour, décédé le 9 octobre 2022, les contributions à la sociologie du travail n’apparaissent pas de prime abord. Pourtant, Laboratory Life, co-écrit avec Steve Woolgar et publié en 1979 (Latour et Woolgar, 1979), peut légitimement être considéré comme un ouvrage qui a contribué de façon majeure à positionner la science ...
Mallard, Alexandre, Ughetto, Pascal
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UNIVERSALITY IN THE CLIMATE CATASTROPHE: RETHINKING CHAKRABARTY'S ANTHROPOCENE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY WITH MERLEAU‐PONTY'S PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE

History and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article critically examines Dipesh Chakrabarty's concept of Anthropocene history, a philosophy of history that is designed to respond to the universal challenge of the Anthropocene. It uses the work of Maurice Merleau‐Ponty to mitigate the pitfalls of Chakrabarty's concept and to propose an alternative relation between nature and history.
Andréa Delestrade
wiley   +1 more source

Los límites del principio de indeterminación radical en Latour y el giro político de su filosofía de la ciencia

Theoria, 2009
Este artículo explora los artilugios conceptuales que utiliza la teoría de Bruno Latour para comprender y explicar la realidad natural y social. Asimismo, se exponen cuáles son los límites a su principio de “indeterminación radical” o principio de ...
Paloma García Díaz
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