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Rethinking Face‐to‐Face Interaction: Lessons from Studies of “Autistic Sociality”

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Face‐to‐face interaction is a foundational concept in microsociology. This article surveys the social experiences of autistic people, who are commonly known for having a strained relationship with interactions face to face. By interpretively reviewing and synthesizing the broader literature on “autistic sociality,” the article provides a nuanced ...
Lars E. F. Johannessen
wiley   +1 more source

Building Collectives, Worlds, Interfaces: on the Prospects of Political Ecology through the Prism of Bruno Latour’s Book “Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy”

Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований
The article offers an interpretation of the key theses of Bruno Latour’s book “Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy,” focusing on their development in the idea of an empathetic interface.
Regina V. Penner
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Becoming a TESOL Practitioner: Disciplinary Languaging and the Socialization of International Students in UK Higher Education

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article proposes the concept of disciplinary languaging to account for the regulated forms of communication that are characteristic of TESOL master's preparatory programs in the UK. It does so with a view to the effects on the socialization of international students who are attracted by the global promotion of such programs and the ...
Yunpeng Du, Miguel Pérez‐Milans
wiley   +1 more source

Latour in azione

Tecnoscienza, 2015
In this article, Latour's thought is analysed in a reflexive way from a philosophical perspective: the question is weather actor-network theory (mostly considered in his Latourian variation) has adequate traits to be a proper part of the ontology it ...
Alessandro Zampieri
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Kinship through code, personhood as node: AI afterlives and new technologies of the self Parenté par le code, personne nodale : vie posthume dans l'IA et nouvelles technologies du moi

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article examines how emerging generative AI technologies in Europe and North America are being used to reanimate the dead, prompting users to define the ‘edges’ of self and personhood through coding practices. These technologies invite new engagements with fundamental questions of relatedness and the construction of the self, challenging and ...
Jennifer Cearns
wiley   +1 more source

From the manager's point of view: work intensification, posthuman ethnography, and healthcare in England Du point de vue des managers : intensification du travail, ethnographie post‐humaine et soins de santé en Angleterre

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Drawing on fieldwork conducted in a hospital in Greater Manchester, England in 2016–17, we describe how a set of national health priorities were translated into work for hospital managers and clinicians during a period of significant organizational pressure.
Adam Brisley, Simon Bailey, Thomas Blakeman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bruno Latour y la reinterpretación contemporánea de la teología política de Carl Schmitt

Revista de Filosofía Universidad Iberoamericana
Este artículo analiza las contribuciones de Bruno Latour a la teoría política, al contrastarlas con las ideas de Carl Schmitt sobre lo político. Se examina la crítica de Latour a la distinción moderna entre naturaleza y sociedad, y su concepto de ...
Eduardo Alberto León
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Change the world farm by farm: The moral care of audit and the paradox of animal welfare inspection in Europe Changer le monde, ferme par ferme : le soin moral de l'audit et le paradoxe des contrôles du bien‐être animal en Europe

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In European animal welfare inspection on farms and at slaughter, inspectors encounter moral challenges that reveal the paradox at the heart of animal welfare. Against the harsh realities of industrial agriculture, not only are their idealized notions of animal wellbeing unrealizable, but inspectors are instrumental in perpetuating standards of welfare ...
Eimear Mc Loughlin
wiley   +1 more source

Gaia Theory and the Anthropocene: Radical Contingency in the Posthuman Future

Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 2019
Good readings of the Gaia hypothesis of James Lovelock understand the theory as positing multiple, interlocking Earth systems, characterized by rapidly-changing feedback loops, in a way that is harmonious both with Darwinian evolution and contemporary ...
D. B. Dillard-Wright
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Gatherings of mobility and immobility: itinerant “criminal tribes” and their containment by the Salvation Army in colonial South India [PDF]

, 2014
In retelling the history of “criminal tribe” settlements managed by the Salvation Army in Madras Presidency (colonial India) from 1911, I argue that neither the mobility–immobility relationship nor the compositional heterogeneity of (im)mobility ...
Arora, Saurabh
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