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2017, Science & Technology Studies
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Without microbes, no other forms of life would be possible. But what does it mean to be with microbes? In this book, 24 contributors attune to microbes and describe their multiple relationships with humans and others. Ethnographic explorations with fermented foods, waste, faecal matter, immunity, antimicrobial resistance, phages, as well as indigenous and scientific understandings of microbes challenge ideas of them being simple entities: not just pathogenic foes, old friends or good fermentation minions, but much more. Following various entanglements, the book tells how these relations transform both humans and microbes in the process.
The burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is unequally distributed across the globe. Low-income countries face a more severe AMR situation and have fewer means to solve the problem.
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
How to make noncoherent problems more productive: Towards an AMR management plan for low resource livestock sectorsGlobal policy for managing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is underpinned by a standardised and coherent global framework for reducing antibiotic use in clinical health, veterinary health, and food production sectors. Within the framework, problematic antibiotic use (a significant driver of AMR) is treated as a knowledge deficit on the part of users and prescribers, which can be remedied by educating them to make better informed treatment decisions. This narrow approach to AMR management conceals the socioeconomic and material drivers of antibiotic decision-making, creating challenges for low resource regions that rely on antibiotic therapies to manage uncertainty and precarity. Thus, there is a need for a global AMR policy that acknowledges the diversity of sociomaterial arrangements and practices that antibiotics form part of, if their use is to be reduced without undermining productivity or the attainment of poverty reduction indicators. Drawing upon research of antibiotic use in ...
Critical Public Health
The ethics and politics of community engagement in global health research2018 •
EASST Review, Vol. 29, n°2. Communication orale lors du Colloque « Practicing science and technology performing the social » organisé par la European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), Université de Trento, Italie, 2-4 septembre 2010
Science as Culture
How Civil Society Organisations Changed the Regulation of Clinical Trials in IndiaIn this paper, I explore how practices of transgender medicine compel those people who seek female-to-male transgender surgeries to commit to using testosterone as a condition of treatment.
Extractive industries produce many kinds of waste, some of them produced through chemical transformation processes, and others set aside during mechanical extraction activities. In France, the classification of these waste has important consequences, as some of them are considered « industrial waste », and others « mining waste », and are covered by different regulatory texts. This distinction has been even more problematic in the case of the many uranium mines scattered across metropolitan France. These mines are not longer operating, and are currently being managed by a state-owned private company that specializes in uranium extraction and transformation. This paper draws on an empirical fieldwork related to controversies about the management of former uranium mines in France and the definition of their associated waste, in which government bodies, private companies, and civil society groups are involved. These controversies relate to what counts as « waste », what it means to be « nuclear », and how these categories are sustained by regulatory and material processes. By delineating the controversial regulatory and material circulation of waste across mining sites in France, and the various problematizations of uranium residues that emerge from public confrontations between the private company and its stakeholders, we show that current debates about the former France uranium mines can be understood thought an analysis of the politics of categorization. For whom these categories matter and how they map onto various forms of exposure to uncertain radioactive risks are then pressing issues for understanding the political economy of former mining activities.
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This PhD thesis focuses on the development of a malaria vaccine as an avenue to explore global health partnerships. In the last twenty years, public-private partnerships have become a prominent organizational form in global health. Hundreds of large transnational collaborations and countless smaller collaborations between the public, private and non-profit sectors have been established. Partnerships have been supported by the large increase of donor funding for research and control of infectious diseases in impoverished countries and many aim to develop or provide vaccines, medicines or interventions. However, while partnership is a notion that connotes equity and mutuality, often global health partnerships operate in contexts that involve vast disparities in power and resources and there is little known about the impacts of partnerships on the places where they operate. This raises the questions: How do global health partnerships operate in practice? What are their impacts in the places where they operate? Addressing these questions, this thesis examines a partnership established to develop the most advanced malaria vaccine, named RTS,S. Based on 17 months of ethnographic research in Tanzania and interviews with representatives of partnering organizations in Belgium and the United States, I trace the development of the RTS,S vaccine from laboratories to its clinical trials across Africa. I explore the social relationships formed between private companies, philanthropic institutions and non-profit organizations in the North, and research institutions and communities in north-eastern Tanzania, where a malaria vaccine clinical trial was conducted. The focus on partnerships is intended to improve understanding about this ever-increasing social, political and economic formation in global health, and contributes to discussions and debates about how partnerships operate and their role in international development, global health governance and transnational medical research.
In 2012, the French minister of economy Arnaud Montebourg, followed by Emmanuel Macron, heralded the opening of an era of "mining renewal" (renouveau minier) in metropolitan France. After decades of decline, mining activities would again be on the rise. The government called for a comprehensive inventory of mineral resources, the delivery of exploration permits to junior companies, and launched a collective reflection on "responsible mining". This paper proposes to study the concept of "mining renewal" and explore its political consequences, through an analysis of the various controversies surrounding it. We use empirical material related to mining projects in French Brittany and the department of Ariège, and to the national initiative on "responsible mining". We focus on two areas of contestation, which delineates the political economy of "mining renewal", and the alternatives it has given rise to. First, we discuss the notion of "responsibility" and its definition in the "responsible mining » national initiative. We show how environmental civil society groups, who participated to the initiative, contested the responsible mining model promoted by other actors involved in the initiative. Second, we show how the narration of the past is used to problematize future development. As past mining activities are considered as valuable heritage by some, historians are enrolled to participate in the production of a would-be responsible mining model. This mobilization of the past is opposed by other actors, who propose counter models for the valuation of local territories, and re-distribute the ability to define the objectives of « responsible mining ».
Governing the manifold subject: a praxiography of Swedish HIV treatment
[Doctoral thesis, monograph] Governing the manifold subject: a praxiography of Swedish HIV treatment2020 •
One Health Outlook
Make science evolve into a One Health approach to improve health and security: a white paper2020 •
EASST + 4S Joint Conference: Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds
2020. “Everyday Cyborgs: Men with Implanted/Transplanted Hair and its Eigensinn," EASST + 4S Joint Conference: Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds, 18-21 August 2020, online.2020 •
EASST + 4S Joint Conference: Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds
2020. "Dis/media Assemblages Surrounding the Care for Street Cats of Istanbul," EASST + 4S Joint Conference: Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds, 18-21 August 2020, online.2020 •
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Science & Technology Studies
West-Centric Divide, Global Health, and Postcolonial InterventionEngaging Science, Technology, and Society
Compromised Agency: The Case of BabyLegsMaastricht University
Enculturing Innovation Indian Engagements with Nanotechnology2016 •
The Journal of Modern African Studies
Seeking exposure: conversions of scientific knowledge in an African city2016 •
Digital Food Activism (Routledge)
Digital food activism: Food transparency one byte/bite at a time (2018)Wellcome open research
From universal frames to collective experimentation? Pursuing serious conversations about antimicrobial resistance [version 1;peer review: awaiting peer review]2020 •
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Full Special Issue Berliner Blätter 84 10.18452/22998
Ecological Ontologies. Approaching Human-Environmental EngagementsThe National Academies Press
Exploring the Frontiers of Innovation to Tackle Microbial Threats: Proceedings of a Workshop: Proceedings of a Workshop2020 •
Science & Technology Studies
Respect for Numbers: Lively Forms and Accountable Engaging in Multiple Registers of STS2018 •
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The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology
The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology2022 •
EASST Review (34(2))
Mattering Press: New forms of care for STS books2013 •
2016 •
ACM SIGGRAPH 90 Panel Proceedings on - SIGGRAPH '90
Hip, hype and hope---the three faces of virtual worlds (panel session)1990 •
Global Public Health
The stratified biomedicalization of HIV prevention in Mexico City2019 •
Social Studies of Science
Science Studies and Activism: Possibilities and Problems for Reconstructivist Agendas2002 •
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Contemporary Drug Problems
Debating Safe Injecting Sites in Vancouver's Inner City: Advocacy, Conservatism and NeoliberalismAntimicrobial Resistance in Developing Countries
Bacterial-Resistant Infections in Resource-Limited Countries2009 •
Antimicrobial Resistance in Developing Countries
Surveillance of Antibiotic Resistance in Developing Countries: Needs, Constraints and Realities2009 •