The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology 1st Edition Maja Hojer Bruun

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• ISBN 10: 9811670846
• ISBN 13: 9789811670848
• Author: Maja Hojer Bruun, Ayo Wahlberg, Rachel Douglas-Jones, Cathrine Hasse, Klaus Hoeyer, Dorthe Brogård Kristensen, Brit Ross Winthereik 

This Handbook offers an overview of the thriving and diverse field of anthropological studies of technology. It features 39 original chapters, each reviewing the state of the art of current research and enlivening the field of study through ethnographic analysis of human-technology interfaces, forms of social organisation, technological practices and/or systems of belief and meaning in different parts of the world. The Handbook is organised around some of the most important characteristics of anthropological studies of technology today: the diverse knowledge practices that technologies involve and on which they depend; the communities, collectives, and categories that emerge around technologies; anthropology’s contribution to proliferating debates on ethics, values, and morality in relation to technology; and infrastructures that highlight how all technologies are embedded in broader political economies and socio-historical processes that shape and often reinforce inequality and discrimination while also generating diversity. All chapters share a commitment to human experiences, embodiments, practices, and materialities in the daily lives of those people and institutions involved in the development, manufacturing, deployment, and/or use of particular technologies. Chapters 11 and 31 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Table contents:

1. The Anthropology of Technology: The Formation of a Field
Part I. Perspectives, Fields, and Approaches
2. Making ‘Technology’ Visible: Technical Activities and the Chaîne Opératoire
3. Technology as Skill in Handwork and Craft: Basketwork and Handweaving
4. Material Culture Studies: Objectification, Agency, and Intangibility
5. Feminist Technoscience and New Imaginaries of Human Reproduction
6. Assemblage Ethnography: Configurations Across Scales, Sites, and Practices
7. Humanism, Posthumanism, and New Humanism: How Robots Challenge the Anthropological Object
8. Structuring Race into the Machine: The Spoiled Promise of Postgenomic Sequencing Technologies
9. An Interventional Design Anthropology of Emerging Technologies: Working Through an Interdisciplinary Field
10. Computational Ethnography: A Case of COVID-19’s Methodological Consequences
Part II. Knowing, Unknowing, and Re-knowing
11. Knowing, Unknowing, and Re-knowing
12. Technology, Environment, and the Ends of Knowledge
13. Charting the Unknown: Tracking the Self, Experimenting with the Digital
14. Data, Knowledge Practices, and Naturecultural Worlds: Vehicle Emissions in the Anthropocene
15. Set, Setting, and Clinical Trials: Colonial Technologies and Psychedelics
16. Assembling Population Data in the Field: The Labour, Technologies, and Materialities of Quantification
17. Peopled By Data: Statistical Knowledge Practices, Population-Making, and the State
18. Data Practices and Sustainable Development Goals: Organising Knowledge for Sustainable Futures
Part III. Communities, Collectives, and Categories
19. Communities, Collectives, and Categories
20. Un/Doing Race: On Technology, Individuals, and Collectives in Forensic Practice
21. Learning, Technology, and the Instrumentalisation of Critique
22. Technology, Gender, and Nation: Building Modern Citizens in Maoist China
23. Imagineerism: Technology, Robots, Kinship. Perspectives from Japan
24. Collectivities and Technological Activism: Feminist Hacking
25. Inside Technology Organisations: Imaginaries of Digitalisation at Work
Part IV. Ethics, Values, and Morality
26. Ethics, Values, and Morality
27. Moral Ambiguities: Fleshy and Digital Substitutes in the Life Sciences
28. Enacting Authenticity: Changing Ontologies of Biological Entities
29. Technologies of Beauty: The Materiality, Ethics, and Normativity of Cosmetic Citizenship
30. The Optimised and Enhanced Self: Experiences of the Self and the Making of Societal Values
31. Articulations of Ethics: Energy Worlds and Moral Selves
32. Competing Responsibilities and the Ethics of Care in Young People’s Engagements with Digital Mental Health
33. Committee Work: Stem Cell Governance in the United States
Part V. Infrastructures, Linkages, and Livelihoods
34. Infrastructures, Linkages, and Livelihoods
35. Accumulation: Exploring the Materiality of Energy Infrastructure
36. Food Infrastructures and Technologies of Trust in Contemporary China
37. Water Infrastructures: The Making and Maintenance of Material and Organisational Connections
38. Electricity as a Field for Anthropological Theorising and Research
39. Circuit Board Money: An Infrastructural Perspective on Digital Payments

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