The Zimbabwe Bush Pump: Mechanics of a Fluid Technology

Laet, Marianne de; Mol, Annemarie

doi:10.22394/0869-5377-2017-1-171-228

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“…En begivenhed opretholdes så laenge konstellationen er i stand til at opretholde den. Adgang til reservedele (de Laet & Mol, 2000), økonomiske midler, traenet mandskab, eller noget så simpelt som hvilken type el-stik der bruges i et bestemt land (Ackrich, 1992) har betydning for om og hvordan begivenheder udfolder sig. Samtidigt så bliver ting slidte, de bryder sammen og de laekker (Ingold, 2012); ligesom der altid er konkurrerende alternativer og måder at opnå sammenlignelige resultater, der byder sig til (Edgerton, 2008).…”

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Hvordan kan teknologi påvirke pædagogiske og didaktiske praksisser?

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Gynther

2018

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This article introduces a conception of educational practices as socio/technical events. The purpose is to frame the impact of technology on pedagogical and didactical practices without having to resort to technological determinism (Heilbroner, 1967) og accept the effects of technology as a rudimentary 'cultural force' (Hasse & Storgaard, 2015). In the first part of the article a schools ecology is analyzed as a heterogenous socio/technical constellation that makes certain events possible. The analysis is based on a theory of constraints (Bjørn & Østerlund, 2014;Fraser, 1989;Shogan, 1999) by which events are unfolded, made possible and simultaneously limited. In this frame technology is seen as primarily social and secondarily technical (Deleuze, 1999). From this frame it becomes possible, in the second part of the article to analyze empirical data gathered from the ongoing implementation of Learning Managements Systems in the danish primary schools. We conclude that technologies such as LMS systems in the long run will revolutionize education, but that the danish government initiative 'Brugerportalsinitiativet' in its present form, does not significantly alter the constraints on current didactical and pedagogical practice.

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Hvordan kan teknologi påvirke pædagogiske og didaktiske praksisser?

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Gynther

2018

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“…As actors move into, out of, or within networks, they change. Thus, actors are 'fluid' although they may become stabilized in networks (De Laet & Mol 2000 [r]…”

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Domesticating Homecare Services; Vehicle Route Problem Solver Displaced

Bergschöld¹

2016

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“…The paper has an unusual form for it is presented as a celebration of a Zimbabwean water pump as public health intervention (De Laet and Mol 2000). Like clinical work the 'bush pump' is tolerant of difference, and thrives on it.…”

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On difference and doubt as tools for critical engagement with public health

Will

2016

Critical Public Health

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Acknowledgements: I am grateful to Rebecca Lynch and Simon Cohn for the encouragement to write this paper, to Simon Carter and Judith Green for the initial invitation to present on the topic at the event celebrating 25 years of the journal, and to participants at that event, my colleague Alison Phipps, and two anonymous reviewers for very helpful comments on previous versions.Abstract: This paper argues that critical public health should reengage with public health as practice by drawing on versions of Science and Technology Studies (STS) that 'de-centre the human' and by seeking alternative forms of critique to work inspired by Foucault. Based on close reading of work by Annemarie Mol, John Law, Vicky Singleton and others, I demonstrate that these authors pursue a conversation with Foucault but suggest new approaches to studying contemporary public health work in different settings. Proposing that we 'doubt' both the unity of public health and its effects, I argue that this version of STS opens up a space to recognise multiplicity; to avoid idealising what is being criticised; and to celebrate or care for public health practices as part of critique. Finally I oppose the view that considering technologies, materials and microbes leads to micro-level analysis or political neutrality, and suggest that it allows us to reframe studies of public health to account for inequalities and to draw attention to weak or retreating states, active markets and the entangled relations of humans and non-humans across the world.2

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The Zimbabwe Bush Pump: Mechanics of a Fluid Technology

Cited by 192 publications

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Hvordan kan teknologi påvirke pædagogiske og didaktiske praksisser?

Hvordan kan teknologi påvirke pædagogiske og didaktiske praksisser?

Domesticating Homecare Services; Vehicle Route Problem Solver Displaced

On difference and doubt as tools for critical engagement with public health

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