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ENVIRONMENTS BY DESIGN IN THE CIRCUMPOLAR NORTHDavid G. AndersonUniversity of Aberdeen
IUAES Manchester 8 Aug 2013Querying Domestication: The ethnography of human/animal entanglements.
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A story about a muskrat hat
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Environmental Design in the North• Going beyond the noted North/South divide within two of the most prominent theoretical groupings• STS Science and Technology Studies• Political Ecology
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Environmental Design in the North• Going beyond the noted North/South divide within two of the most prominent theoretical groupings• STS Science and Technology Studies• Political Ecology
• “Technobiological Imaginaries” (Joan Fukimura, Sheila Jasanoff)
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Environmental Design in the North• Going beyond the noted North/South divide within two of the most prominent theoretical groupings• STS Science and Technology Studies• Political Ecology
• “Technobiological Imaginaries” (Joan Fukimura, Sheila Jasanoff)
• Critique of the “psychological minimalism” within theories of agency – esp. ANT (Peter Taylor)
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Environmental Design in the North• Going beyond the noted North/South divide within two of the most prominent theoretical groupings• STS Science and Technology Studies• Political Ecology
• “Technobiological Imaginaries” (Joan Fukimura, Sheila Jasanoff)
• Critique of the “psychological minimalism” within theories of agency – esp. ANT (Peter Taylor)
• An ethnographic account of “acclimatization” / “translocation” / “restoration” of exotic species
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Environmental Design in the North• The anthropology of the Gift
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Muskrat acclimatization in Stalin’s Russia
We are not able to wait for gifts from nature: our goal is to take them – I.V. Michurin
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Muskox translocations during the Cold War
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Woolly Mammoth Restoration
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Woolly Mammoth Restoration:Pleistocene Park
Sergei Afanasevich Zimov
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Environmental Design and a Techno- biological Imaginary
• The machine-organism analogy and what is “lost in translation”
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Environmental Design and a Techno- biological Imaginary
• The machine-organism analogy and what is “lost in translation”
• Designer environments• Expert policed ecological balances• Niches – full and empty• Forage and appetites
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Environmental Design and a Techno- biological Imaginary
• The machine-organism analogy and what is “lost in translation”
• Designer environments• Expert policed ecological balances• Niches – full and empty• Forage and appetites
• Little interest in the desires of the animals themselves let alone other Northern communities• “playing” with animals
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Agencies, human or otherwise• Peter Taylor’s critique of “psychological minimalism” and “egocentric calculation” in the ANT school – esp. the founding myth of scallops in St. Brieuc Bay
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Agencies, human or otherwise• Peter Taylor’s critique of “psychological minimalism” and “egocentric calculation” in the ANT school – esp. the founding myth of scallops in St. Brieuc Bay
• All agency reduced to “resistance” or “enrollment” – more complex reflections or sentience “lost in translation”
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Agencies, human or otherwise• Peter Taylor’s critique of “psychological minimalism” and “egocentric calculation” in the ANT school – esp. the founding myth of scallops in St. Brieuc Bay
• All agency reduced to “resistance” or “enrollment” – more complex reflections or sentience “lost in translation”
• An anecdote: translating the word agency into Russian
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Agencies, human or otherwise• Peter Taylor’s critique of “psychological minimalism” and “egocentric calculation” in the ANT school – esp. the founding myth of scallops in St. Brieuc Bay
• All agency reduced to “resistance” or “enrollment” – more complex reflections or sentience “lost in translation”
• An anecdote: translating the word agency into Russian
• Ethnographic examples of agency in the circumpolar North
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Conclusion: Environments of Design in the North«beyond resistance»
Teaching a 4 year bull to know the saddle - Amudisy
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Conclusion: Environments of Design in the North«back to the gift»
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