Matters of care in technoscience: Assembling neglected things

Bellacasa, María Puig de la

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“…This understanding broadens ethical concerns and urges renewable energy practices that anticipate and take responsibility for these human-Relations -6.1 -June 2018 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ nature interrelationships (de la Bellacasa 2011;Donovan 2014;Chilvers and Pallett 2018). The physical qualities of renewable energy, including their proximity and visibility, also make it less likely for people to avoid responsibilities of human energy use (Pasqualetti 2000).…”

Section: Renewable Energy and The Natural World: Relevance Relationsmentioning

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Mutually-Beneficial Renewable Energy Systems

Burke

2018

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2018

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“…Over the past five years especially, anthropologists have become increasingly excited about the preposition 'with' and its possibilities for opening up conversations about power relations and how we might deal with unequal power relations (Haraway, 2016;Ingold, 2017;Puig de la Bellacasa, 2011;Puig de la Bellacasa, 2012;Tsing, 2016). Ideas of 'doing with' have been especially prominent in environmental anthropology and in thinking about how we might possibly counteract global warming and mass extinctions by becoming attentive to our entanglements and interdependence with both living and non-living others (Haraway, 2016;Van Doorn, 2014;Van Doorn, 2015).…”

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Considering spatial planning for the South African poor: An argument for ‘planning with’

Cilliers

Victor

2018

TRP

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This article considers the notion of 'spatial planning' in South Africa, elaborating on the challenges relating to the wide disparities between formal and informal areas. Town and Regional Planning theory and anthropological approaches are fused together in this article in an attempt to provide a more integrated approach to spatial planning, arguing in favour of 'planning with' poor South Africans, in contrast to 'planning for'. By using qualitative participant observation, an ethnographic fieldwork study conducted in Marikana informal settlement, Potchefstroom, South Africa, helped form reflections that offer valuable insights in support of the 'planning with' approach. Marikana residents' innovative DIY-formalisation plan of installing communal taps is considered a vivid example of pragmatic local solutions to service-delivery issues and it is argued that these solutions should be considered when 'planning with' the poor. The research argues that, despite being different in context, 'planning with' approaches have a prominent role to play in both formal and informal settlements. As such, the research elaborated on the value of 'planning with' approaches in South Africa, relating to environmental, social, economic, political and broader planning considerations. The article does not offer a generalizable solution to all planning challenges in South Africa. It concludes with a reflection of the ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the case study linked to broader themes of the possible planning interventions, considering the delineation of social power, context-based needs, ownership and accountability, and the importance of environmental education for all socio-economic classes, in an attempt to inspire planners, policymakers and anthropologists to find new ways of 'thinking with' and 'planning with' each other. Keywords: Informal areas, 'planning with', spatial planning AbstrakHierdie artikel oorweeg die idee van 'ruimtelike beplanning' in Suid-Afrika en brei uit op die uitdagings wat verband hou met die groot ongelykhede tussen formele en informele areas. Stads-en Streekbeplanningsteorie en antropologiese benaderings word in hierdie artikel saamgevoeg in 'n poging om 'n meer geïntegreerde benadering tot ruimtelike beplanning te bied, wat argumenteer ten gunste van 'beplanning saam met', in teenstelling met 'beplanning vir' arm Suid-Afrikaners. Deur gebruik te maak van kwalitatiewe deelnemende waarneming het 'n etnografiese veldwerkstudie in Marikana informele nedersetting, Potchefstroom, Suid-Afrika, gehelp om refleksies te vorm wat waardevolle insigte bied ter ondersteuning van die 'beplanning met'-benadering. Marikana-inwoners se innoverende DIY-formaliseringsplan van die installering van gemeenskaplike krane word beskou as ŉ goeie voorbeeld van pragmatiese plaaslike oplossings vir diensleweringskwessies. Daar word aangevoer dat hierdie oplossings in ag geneem moet word as 'beplanning saam met' armes. Die navorsing beweer dat 'beplanning saam met'-benaderings 'n prominente rol kan speel in beide forme...

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“…Indeed, rigid policies and interventions could be 'blocking' rather than enabling ways of becoming-other. Second, by understanding subject formation as 'event-full', this requires 'response-ability' (Barad, 2012;Haraway, 2008) in research and policy to attend to and bring into being more careful forms (Martin, Myers, & Viseu, 2015;Puig de la Bellacasa, 2011). We must learn to attune to these different forms and what they can tell us about the world, as well as being accountable for what gets made, in order to bring bodies together in 'healthier' ways.…”

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The injecting ‘event’: harm reduction beyond the human

Dennis

2017

Critical Public Health

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Since the 1980s, the primary public health response to injecting drug use in the UK has been one of harm reduction. That is, reducing the harms associated with drug use without necessarily reducing consumption itself. Rooted in a post-Enlightenment idea of rationalism, interventions are premised on the rational individual who, given the right means, will choose to avoid harm. This lies in stark contrast to dominant addiction models that pervade popular images of the 'out of control' drug user, or worse, 'junkie'. Whilst harm reduction has undoubtedly had vast successes, including challenging the otherwise pathologising and often stigmatising model of addiction, I argue that it has not gone far enough in addressing aspects of drug use that go beyond 'rational' and 'human' control. Drawing on my doctoral research with people who inject drugs, conducted in London, UK, this paper highlights the role of the injecting 'event', which far from being directed or controlled by a pre-defined individual or 'body' was composed by a fragile assemblage of bodies, human and nonhuman. Furthermore, in line with the 'event's' heterogeneous and precarious make-up, multiple ways of 'becoming' through these events were possible. I look here at these 'becomings' as both stabilising and destabilising ways of being in the world, and argue that we need to pay closer attention to these events and what people are actually in the process of becoming in order to enact more accountable and 'response-able' harm reduction.

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Matters of care in technoscience: Assembling neglected things

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