A5084964834- Information Systems Theories and Implementation
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Cambodian History and Society
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Chinese history and philosophy
- Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research
- Management and Organizational Studies
- Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
- Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
- Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Social Media and Politics
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
- Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Cybernetics and Technology in Society
- Embodied and Extended Cognition
- Philosophy and History of Science
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
Chulalongkorn University
2023-2025
University of Copenhagen
2011-2023
University of Nottingham
2022-2023
University of Leicester
2015-2022
Cambodia Development Resource Institute
2021-2022
Osaka University
2016-2021
Rice University
2021
Film Independent
2016-2020
Osaka University of Human Sciences
2017-2018
Australian National University
2016
In a wide range of contemporary debates on Japanese cultures technological practice, brief reference is often made to distinct Shinto legacies, as forming an animist substratum indigenous spiritual beliefs and cosmological imaginations. Japan has been described land Shinto-infused ‘techno-animism’: exhibiting ‘polymorphous perversity’ that resolutely ignores boundaries between human, animal, mechanical beings. this article, we deploy instances techno-animism sites theoretical experimentation...
Infrastructures have conventionally been viewed as material substrates underlying social action. On this basis, cultural anthropology has engaged infrastructure vehicles through which political values and symbols are made manifest. In contrast, introduction, the contributions that follow, specifies an orientation to infrastructures ontological experiments. At issue is a view of experimental systems integrate multiplicity disjunctive elements spin out new relations between them. The result...
Since the 1980s concept of ANT has remained unsettled. continuously been critiqued and hailed, ridiculed praised. It is still an open question whether should be considered a theory or method better understood as entailing dissolution such modern ‘‘genres’’. In this paper authors engage with some important reflections by John Law Bruno Latour in order to analyze what it means ‘‘do ANT,’’ (even worse), doing so after ‘‘doing on ANT.’’ particular examine two post-ANT case studies Annemarie Mol...
This introduction to the Common Knowledge symposium titled “Comparative Relativism” outlines a variety of intellectual contexts where placing unlikely companion terms comparison and relativism in conjunction offers analytical purchase. If comparison, most general sense, involves investigation discrete order elucidate their similarities differences, then relativism, as tendency, stance, or working method, usually assumption that exhibit, may radically different, incomparable, incommensurable...
Ontology has recently gained renewed attention in science and technology studies anthropology (e.g. Gad, Jensen Winthereik 2015; Holbraad, Pedersen Viveiros de Castro 2014; Woolgar Lezaun 2013). Yet, it a considerably longer pedigree than these recent debates might lead one to think. Experiments, of course, have long held the sociologists, historians, philosophers (Collins 1985; Gooding 1990; Shapin Schaffer 1985). And infrastructures been focus sustained inquiry sociology history (Bowker...
Wide-ranging research, in science and technology studies (STS), anthropology, environmental infrastructural studies, elsewhere, can currently be seen to work out the implications of Latour's evocative but enigmatic call for a parliament things. What are political materials that would inhabit such parliament? their demands? And how social scientists capable getting them into view? Asking these questions, paper experiments with double sense. Putting conversation heterogeneous corpus empirical...
Focusing on the efforts of Japan International Cooperation Agency to improve Phnom Penh's run-down sewage infrastructure, this paper offers an example what a decentred anthropology infrastructure might look like. The brings together very diverse set features, including pipes, road networks, economic considerations, demographic change, geography, climate flows sludge and lives people in city. Giving rise significantly unpredictable deeply material relations, into view as sites immanent...
In this multi-authored essay, nine anthropologists working in different parts of the world take part a conversation about interfaces between anthropology and STS (science technology studies). Through conversation, multiple emerge that are heterogeneously composed according to languages, places, arguments from where they emerge. The authors explore these as sites encounters also difference—where complex groupings, practices, topics, analytical grammars overlap, exceed each other, composing...
Signalling that ‘humanity’ has radically changed the Earth’s environmental parameters, Anthropocene currently generates debate across socio-cultural sciences. In this context, neo-Marxist and new materialist approaches stand out for way they oblige social theory to catch up with material realities. We share conviction might constitute a genuine event practice. However, we argue search alternative ways of problematizing ‘dramatizing’ our eco-political predicament confronts these unresolved...
This paper discusses the recent emergence of ontological approaches in science and technology studies (STS), anthropology philosophy. Although it is common to hear a turn, or ontology, more than one line intellectual development at stake. In reality, we are witness plural set partly overlapping, divergent, turns.
This short piece responds to five commentaries our own suggestions on ‘What Next for Actor Network Theory?’ after Latour's passing. Charting a path through very heterogenous ideas, we attempt re-scenarise what consider the wheat of fruitful theoretical questioning and extensions from chaff worn-out adversarial gestures around actor-network theory (ANT) in sociology beyond. Inventing Latour planet distress, affirm with commentators, certainly brings ANT into dialogues broader strands feminist...
In this article, an anthropologist examines the question, asked today in diverse forms by increasing variety of actors: what is aim or telos social sciences? From within disciplinary communities sciences themselves, answers given are inseparable from questions theory and method. This essay engages some recent experimental, postcritical responses as formulated scholars fields anthropology STS (science, technology, society). Following decades reflexive debates changing institutional...
In recent decades, scientists have developed a wide array of hydrological, hydrodynamic, and other models to understand the dynamics Mekong River Basin. Indeed, area has been described as ‘flooded’ with models. Drawing on STS philosophy modeling – which mediating instruments first half this article discusses how why proliferation occurred, focusing Cambodian context. Highlighting that are comparatively, reference one another, analysis shows they generated partially connected ecology...
What emerges is a concern with the machinery of concept, or rather processual manner in which concept enables number elements to be ordered time and space. From this it follows that...
Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropologyMy immediate reaction to the results of British Referendum on leaving or remaining in EU was remember Alexei Yurchak's book, Everything forever, until it no more (Yurchak 2006).In Yurchak describes feeling many people Russia when Soviet Union broke up: came as a complete shock because they thought would never happen; but once had happened, not really surprise at all.The United Kingdom has tempestuous relationship with European Economic...
Practice has become a topic of increasing empirical and conceptual concern within sociology neighbouring fields. ‘Practice’ can refer to location or it action. It is possible be ‘in practice’, ‘have practice’ ‘constituted by practice’. cause, an effect explanation. Within science technology studies (STS), the practice orientation simultaneously analytical – in form various theories empirical, that research objects are often defined as ‘practices’. Focusing on range examples, especially...