annakspeaking.bsky.social
How we know (agri)natures & why it matters. More-than-humans (soil, microbes, funghi), agriculture (regenerative), food (local). Environmental social scientist, Associate Prof of Trandiscipl Human-Environment Relations at Univ of Oulu, Finland.
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so proud of you Mary!!!!
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oooh isn't it just the best... It completely revolutionised my idea of what sf can be, and what it means to write feminist scifi
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: it takes a community to witness and valorise such actions. Env approaches focused on individual sacrifice lead to despair, while those done in common enliven. Check out "Science and Religion: Approaches from STS" edited by Zara Thokozani Kamwendo.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Theoretically, I analyse the intersection of self-governance, calculability, and expertise in the making and unmaking of (micro)biopolitics. So, hopefully fun on both fronts.
I warmly invite discussion and feedback - find my email online or msg me here!
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Empirically, the case study brings out the knowledge and experience of #regenag farmers in relation to #soil #microbiome, and calls for more human-microbial studies with communities/places which are not already 'probiotic' (these farmers sit within the dominant agri-food system).
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What the paper argues, simply, is that calculability and quantification are not going to 'go away', and we need to deal with them as political powers which operate 'externally' (on people's realities) and internally (through their self-governance).
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but self-governing. As a result, they experience the need to quantify both because of the demands from the powers which shape their realities (capital, state), and they use quantification to navigate these powers for their own benefit.
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I propose that even #regenag farmers operate within an agrarian biopolitics of 'farming by numbers' in which farming realities/landscapes and farmers themselves are made legible and governable through quantification (of money and material/ecological processes). Farmers are not passive in this,
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The paper grew out of my interest in the centrality of calculability, the desire to express knowledge numerically, amongst UK #regenag farmers. The soc sc and humanities #microbes lit, and m-t-h lit more widely, is all about embodied knowledge and affect. So, why this disconnect?
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Yes rob, yes :)
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THIS IS SO EXCITING! I would love to talk more about this - emailing you
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Thanks Chris - I am interested in the SSH critiques of the other missions you mention, can you direct me to any?
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O tak.
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The low number of electoral stations abroad was a real problem for those of us outside the capital cities. Democracy really should go digital by now.
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please tell me these are authors, not dishes, because I am salivating :D
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very relevant to what is going on at Uni of Sheffield right now.