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For an inviting anthropology Pour une anthropologie accueillante
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Anthropologists have recently become inspired, captivated even, by the practices of the arts, design, and architecture in efforts to renew anthropology's modes of engagement and understandings of its relevance, particularly affecting how we approach ethnographic fieldwork.
Tomás Criado +2 more
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The agency of hybrids: overcoming the symmetrophobic block [PDF]
, 2005 We respond to ‘challenge 3’ presented in Rose, Jones and Truex’s excellent polemic by way of elucidating the meanings of hybrids, actants, agency and symmetry in Actor-Network Theory.
McMaster, T, Wastell, DG
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Egalitarianism is often idealized, but many anthropologists have noted its potential for nightmare scenarios involving envy, mistrust, and violence. This introduction outlines a framework for understanding the negative emotions and violence associated with the forces of commensuration that are necessary to make people equal.
Natalia Buitron +2 more
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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
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Genealogy+Critique, 2018 This paper scrutinizes Bruno Latour's critique of contemporary critical theory. According to Latour, poststructuralist conceptions of critical inquiry are increasingly behind the times: in our "post-factual" era, attempts to expose facts as results of ...
Matthias Flatscher, Sergej Seitz
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, 2022 Category: Second Opinion, Sector: Investment, Issuer type: Financial Institution, Shading: Medium ...
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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
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Quaderni di Sociologia, 2018 Bruno Latour is a renowned author whose works have influenced all branches of social sciences in the last thirty years. After his path-breaking ethnographies of scientific laboratories and the development, alongside M.
Nicola Manghi
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article we apply Wacquant's conceptualization of the ghetto to an analysis of interviews conducted with Roma people living in the state‐enforced camps of Turin, Italy. We illustrate how the elements characterizing a ghetto according to Wacquant (i.e.
Vincenzo Romania, Tommaso Bertazzo
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Has Latour Real-ly Unravelled the Real: The Journey from Laboratory Life to Down to Earth?
Law, Technology and Humans, 2020 This article traces Bruno Latour’s answer to the question ‘what is real?’ from Latour and Steve Woolgar in Laboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts (1979) through to Latour in Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climate Change (2018 ...
Charles Lawson
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