Tag: Science and Technology Studies
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Biotopia, American Imperialism, and Science: A Conversation with Jim Endersby
in PodcastsRebecca Laurent talks with Jim Endersby about his new book: The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology’s Imaginary Futures, 1900-1935. They discuss how a failed scientific theory inspired public optimism for science, plants, and American imperialism.
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Plants By Any Other Name
in EssaysWhat’s in a name? Knowledge, power, and history, Jens Benöhr, Constanza López, and Kara Lena Virik argue. The scientific names of plants root botanical knowledge in colonial relationships. To decolonize ecology, we must embrace the pluriverse of knowing, naming, and living with the world.
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Squished Bugs and the Sticky Questions of Fieldwork
in EssaysOur views of the multispecies world are smudged through windshield graveyards. Anissa Bejaoui peers through the stories squished bugs tell about the ethics of knowledge production and the praxis of conservation.
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Troubling Dualisms with the God in the Aquarium
in EssaysGod, pet, and research subject, axolotls transgress Western dualisms. Alex Ventimilla explores what these creatures tell us about science, companionship, and life in the Anthropocene.
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Why Are Anti-Vaxxers Obsessed With the “Natural”?
in InterviewsIn this written correspondence, emery jenson talks to Dr. Traci Brynne Voyles about how ableist and racist thinking along with a narrow conception of “environmentalism” have propped up the anti-vaccination movement.
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When Sacred Cows Become Tools of the State
in EssaysIn the midst of India’s beef ban, beef detection kits are supposed to help stop violence against Muslim and Dalit people accused of eating the meat. But do they? Clara Miller and A. Parikh argue that increased surveillance hurts both people and cows.
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Listening to What Trees Have to Say
in ReviewsTrees might have a lot to say, but how can humans hear them? Solvejg Nitzke reviews Valerie Trouet’s new book, “Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings.”
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Making Meaning in an Age of Data: A Conversation with Heather Houser
in PodcastsIn conversation with Min Hyoung Song, Heather Houser considers how stories and art make overwhelming scientific data meaningful—and how they trouble, interrogate, and transform it.
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What Happens When Gamers Become (Digital) Geoengineers?
in EssaysElon Musk’s dream of colonizing Mars may be decades away, but video games allow us to practice geoengineering here and now. Doron Darnov explores how digital terraforming both shapes and reflects our desires for worldmaking at (inter)planetary scales.
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Infrastructure’s Inequalities: A Conversation with Nikhil Anand and Nausheen Anwar
in PodcastsGeographer Siddharth Menon interviews anthropologist Nikhil Anand and urban planner Nausheen Anwar about infrastructures and development in India and Pakistan.