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The Anthropology of Technology: The Formation of a Field
Section 1: Perspectives, Fields, and Approaches
Making Technology Visible: Technical Activities and the Chaine Operatoire
Technology as Skill in Handwork and Craft: Basketwork and Handweaving
Material Culture Studies: Objectification, Agency, and Intangibility
Feminist Technoscience and New Imaginaries of Human Reproduction
Assemblage Ethnography: Configurations Across Scales, Sites, and Practices
Humanism, Posthumanism, and New Humanism: How Robots Challenge the Anthropological Object
Structuring Race into the Machine: The Spoiled Promise of Postgenomic Gene Sequencing
An Interventional Design Anthropology of Emerging Technologies: Working Through an Interdisciplinary Field
Computational Ethnography: A Case of Covid-19s Methodological Consequences
Section 2: Knowing, Unknowing, and Re-knowing
Knowing, Unknowing, and Re-knowing
Technology, Environment, and the Ends of Knowledge
Charting the Unknown: Tracking the Self, Experimenting with the Digital
Data, Knowledge Practices, and Naturecultural Worlds: Vehicle Emissions in the Anthropocene
Set, Setting, and Clinical Trials: Colonial Technologies and Psychedelics
Assembling Population Data in the Field: The Labour, Technologies, and Materialities of Quantification
Peopled by Data: Statistical Knowledge Practices, Population-Making, and the State
Data Practices and Sustainable Development Goals: Organising Knowledge for Sustainable Futures
Section 3: Communities, Collectives, and Categories
Communities, Collectives, and Categories
Un/Doing Race: On Technology, Individuals, and Collectives in Forensic Practice
Learning, Technology, and the Instrumentalisation of Critique
Technology, Gender, and Nation: Building Modern Citizens in Maoist China
Imagineerism: Technology, Robots, Kinship. Perspectives from Japan
Collectivities and Technological Activism: Feminist Hacking
Inside Technology Organisations: Imaginaries of Digitalisation at Work
Section 4: Ethics, Values, and Morality
Ethics, Values, and Morality
Moral Ambiguities: Fleshy and Digital Substitutes in the Life Sciences
Enacting Authenticity: Changing Ontologies of Biological Entities
Technologies of Beauty: The Materiality, Ethics, and Normativity of Cosmetic Citizenship
The Optimised and Enhanced Self: Experiences of the Self and the Making of Societal Values
Articulations of Ethics: Energy Worlds and Moral Selves
Competing Responsibilities and the Ethics of Care in Young Peoples Engagements with Digital Mental Health
Committee Work: Stem Cell Governance in the United States
Section 5: Infrastructures, Linkages, and Livelihoods
Infrastructures, Linkages, and Livelihoods
Accumulation: Exploring the Materiality of Energy Infrastructure
Food Infrastructures and Technologies of Trust in Contemporary China
Water Infrastructures: The Making and Maintenance of Material and Organisational Connections
Electricity as a Field for Anthropological Theorizing and Research
Circuit Board Money: An Infrastructural Perspective on Digital Payments.
Section 1: Perspectives, Fields, and Approaches
Making Technology Visible: Technical Activities and the Chaine Operatoire
Technology as Skill in Handwork and Craft: Basketwork and Handweaving
Material Culture Studies: Objectification, Agency, and Intangibility
Feminist Technoscience and New Imaginaries of Human Reproduction
Assemblage Ethnography: Configurations Across Scales, Sites, and Practices
Humanism, Posthumanism, and New Humanism: How Robots Challenge the Anthropological Object
Structuring Race into the Machine: The Spoiled Promise of Postgenomic Gene Sequencing
An Interventional Design Anthropology of Emerging Technologies: Working Through an Interdisciplinary Field
Computational Ethnography: A Case of Covid-19s Methodological Consequences
Section 2: Knowing, Unknowing, and Re-knowing
Knowing, Unknowing, and Re-knowing
Technology, Environment, and the Ends of Knowledge
Charting the Unknown: Tracking the Self, Experimenting with the Digital
Data, Knowledge Practices, and Naturecultural Worlds: Vehicle Emissions in the Anthropocene
Set, Setting, and Clinical Trials: Colonial Technologies and Psychedelics
Assembling Population Data in the Field: The Labour, Technologies, and Materialities of Quantification
Peopled by Data: Statistical Knowledge Practices, Population-Making, and the State
Data Practices and Sustainable Development Goals: Organising Knowledge for Sustainable Futures
Section 3: Communities, Collectives, and Categories
Communities, Collectives, and Categories
Un/Doing Race: On Technology, Individuals, and Collectives in Forensic Practice
Learning, Technology, and the Instrumentalisation of Critique
Technology, Gender, and Nation: Building Modern Citizens in Maoist China
Imagineerism: Technology, Robots, Kinship. Perspectives from Japan
Collectivities and Technological Activism: Feminist Hacking
Inside Technology Organisations: Imaginaries of Digitalisation at Work
Section 4: Ethics, Values, and Morality
Ethics, Values, and Morality
Moral Ambiguities: Fleshy and Digital Substitutes in the Life Sciences
Enacting Authenticity: Changing Ontologies of Biological Entities
Technologies of Beauty: The Materiality, Ethics, and Normativity of Cosmetic Citizenship
The Optimised and Enhanced Self: Experiences of the Self and the Making of Societal Values
Articulations of Ethics: Energy Worlds and Moral Selves
Competing Responsibilities and the Ethics of Care in Young Peoples Engagements with Digital Mental Health
Committee Work: Stem Cell Governance in the United States
Section 5: Infrastructures, Linkages, and Livelihoods
Infrastructures, Linkages, and Livelihoods
Accumulation: Exploring the Materiality of Energy Infrastructure
Food Infrastructures and Technologies of Trust in Contemporary China
Water Infrastructures: The Making and Maintenance of Material and Organisational Connections
Electricity as a Field for Anthropological Theorizing and Research
Circuit Board Money: An Infrastructural Perspective on Digital Payments.