Robert E. Kohler,<i>Landscapes and Labscapes: Exploring the Lab–Field Border in Biology</i>. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002

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“…Diversity became a scalar phenomenon that still encompassed morphological differences at the individual level but could now also include many other levels as well, from microbial communities to ecoregions. Importantly, diversity was rendered into a tractable object for experimental systems, something that could be manipulated and scientifically verified (Kohler 2002). This shift is indicative of much broader changes that looked to science for delivering and shoring-up social facts by appealing to 'nature' or innate 'biology'.…”

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Doing Diversity in Museums and Heritage

2022

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Diversity' is undoubtedly a key word in contemporary museum and heritage debates and practice. Numerous initiatives and developments to promote, celebrate, identify, manage, preserve and, sometimes, to contest, diversity are underway. Yet what is meant by 'diversity' in these many instances-and what it is hoped it will achieve-is itself varied. So too for terms with which it is entangled or that operate as apparent or near synonyms, such as 'variety', 'plurality' and 'difference', and the German 'Vielfalt', 'Diversität', 'Verschiedenheit', 'Mannigfaltigkeit', 'Pluralität' and 'Differenz'. This book brings together studies of the lives and workings of such terms within recent and ongoing museum and heritage contexts in Berlin. While the question of which sität zu Berlin, the Museum für Naturkunde and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation for the support. I thank all members of CARMAH (the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage) and especially the members of the Making Differences project for sharing reading suggestions and discussing ideas over these last years. The following deserve particular thanks for comments on this text:

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Section: The Biological Perspectivementioning

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“…« leurs » coraux disparaître, ou une espèce étudiée une vie durant s'éteindre (voir, par exemple, Turvey [2009], Braverman [2018], Serreze [2018]), il devient difficile en effet de détacher la parole scientifique de cette vision des stigmates de l'anthropocène. Cette extension à la fois personnelle et globale du propos savant donne une nouvelle force à cette culture des sciences « de terrain » que le succès du modèle des laboratoires a fait passer au second plan au début du XX e siècle (Kohler, 2002).…”

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“…Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data : https:// gisaid.org. 12 Sur ce travail et son histoire (et sa longue invisibilité dans les études sur les sciences), voir notammentKohler (2002Kohler ( , 2006.13 Pour Patrice Maniglier (2021), la pandémie de Covid-19 apparaît plus généralement comme un épisode de légitimation des « vérités latouriennes » (sic). De la même façon, Frédérique Aït-Touati et Emanuele Coccia (2021) évoquent un « élargissement de l'horizon politique » qui confirme les thèses de B. Latour.…”

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Sciences et société au prisme de la pandémie de Covid-19 : la recherche sur les origines naturelles du SARS-CoV-2

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2022

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La « crise de la Covid-19 » a constitué un moment important de débats – sur la marche de la science et les conditions de travail des scientifiques – dont on peut déjà tirer quelques leçons de sociologie des sciences. C’est le but de ce texte, qui s’intéresse tout particulièrement aux recherches sur l’histoire du virus SARS-CoV-2. D’abord, l’intérêt pour son origine a entraîné des prises de parole qui ont révélé avec une grande clarté la dépendance de nos savoirs vis-à-vis de choix politiques, et montré combien le crédit scientifique reposait aussi sur un travail réalisé en dehors des laboratoires. Cette crise a en outre valorisé des spécialités émergentes ou délaissées, soulignant l’hétérogénéité des modes de production des connaissances. Enfin, elle a nettement rapproché la virologie du cadre scientifique et politique de l’« anthropocène ». La question de l’origine du virus demeure toutefois ouverte, faisant l’objet d’une controverse qui enrichit encore son intérêt sociologique.

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“…The laboratory was built on the exclusion of women and today still is infused with a masculine scientific ethos, geared toward discovery and exploration, where heroic scientific progress can be brought about (Shapin 1988;Haraway 1997, 23, 28;Subramaniam 2014). Important features of this imagined placeless lab are its seclusion, the invisibility and detachment of the scientist, and the reliance on proper procedure which ensures the consistent quality of experimental results (Shapin 1984;Shapin and Schaffer 1985;Haraway 1997;Kohler 2002). While we know that the placeless lab is a fiction, this description could nonetheless be more or less true for how the Australian lab sees itself and works internationally in the field of molecular biology.…”

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Between the Lab and the Field: Plants and the Affective Atmospheres of Southern Science

Calkins

2021

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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In view of persistent global inequalities in scientific knowledge production with clear centers and peripheries, this paper examines a lingering concern for many scientists in the Global South: why is it, at times, so hard to have scientific insights from the South recognized? This paper addresses this big question from within a long-term field immersion in a Ugandan–Australian scientific collaboration in molecular biology. I show how disciplinary hierarchies of value affect the distribution of labor between Uganda and Australia and thematize the role of place and its affective atmospheres that texture the quotidian scientific work in this project. Unsurprisingly, they tend to devalue Ugandan sites and contributions, and turn Uganda into a rather unlikely site for new insights to emerge. However, in spite of doing devalued and outsourced “menial” labor such as fieldwork, Ugandan biologists’ fieldwork involves affective encounters with their experimental banana plants that thereby become differently thinkable. The paper argues that attending to affective atmospheres that infuse research sites offers clues about scientists’ position in global hierarchies and at the same time can help make room for insights that emanate from unexpected places.

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Robert E. Kohler,Landscapes and Labscapes: Exploring the Lab–Field Border in Biology. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002

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Doing Diversity in Museums and Heritage

Doing Diversity in Museums and Heritage

Sciences et société au prisme de la pandémie de Covid-19 : la recherche sur les origines naturelles du SARS-CoV-2

Between the Lab and the Field: Plants and the Affective Atmospheres of Southern Science

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