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Ep. #015 - Michael Hathaway & Brit Ross Winthereik
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Welcome to a special bonus double episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast! This week we offer new perspectives on two countries—China and Denmark—that have become touchstones for contemporary debates over energy futures. But before all that serious business, Cymene explains why it’s advisable to wear sunglasses underground. We then (7:57) talk to Michael Hathaway, an anthropologist from Simon Fraser University and author of Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China (University of California Press, 2013). Michael offers a different perspective on Chinese air pollution; we talk about wind as medium, metaphor and material force and about how the rise of environmental sensibility is changing politics and society in China today. What is China’s role as a global citizen? Then (56:15) we welcome Brit Ross Winthereik to the Houston studio. Brit is based at the IT-University of Copenhagen where she organizes the Alien Energy project (http://alienenergy.dk/). With Brit, we talk about the history, complexity and contradictions of “green energy” in Denmark and learn about the secret history of Danish energy powerhouse Vestas. Brit makes a case for thinking about the environment at different scales and then discusses the Land Art Generator Initiative (http://landartgenerator.org) a project that seeks to make renewable energy beautiful
Data Practices and Sustainable Development Goals: Organising Knowledge for Sustainable Futures
No full textBeaulieu, Anne. (in press) 2021. . In Maja Hojer Bruun, Dorthe Brogaard Kristensen, Rachel Douglas-Jones, Cathrine Hasse, Klaus Høyer, Brit Ross Winthereik and Ayo Wahlberg Eds., , Palgrave
The Anthropologization of Energy
No full textThe Promise of Infrastructure. Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta and Hannah Appel (eds), 2018. Electrifying Anthropology: Exploring Electrical Practices and Infrastructures. Simone Abram, Brit Ross Winthereik and Thomas Yarrow (eds), 201
Data on the Digitization of Everyday Life during the Covid-19 pandemic in Denmark
No full textDatasættet indeholder interviews, feltnoter og online dagbøger fra mobil etnografi. Dataene fokuserer på, hvordan mennesker i Danmark oplever digitaliseringen af deres hverdag under Covid-19-pandemien i Danmark. Bemærk: Dataejerskab deles med Brit Ross Winthereik fra ITU. Data kan stilles til rådighed for yderligere forskning gennem bilateral aftale og kun til forskning inden for rammerne af samtykke fra de deltagende personer. Kontakt os for yderligere oplysninger.The dataset contains interviews, fieldnotes, and online diaries from mobile ethnography. The data focuses on how people in Denmark experience the digitization of their everyday lives during the Covid-19 pandemic in Denmark. Note: Dataownership is shared with Brit Ross Winthereik from ITU. Data can be made available for further research through bilateral agreement and only for research within the scope of the consent made by the participating subjects. Please contact us for further details
The Anthropologization of Energy
Get PDFThe Promise of Infrastructure. Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta and Hannah Appel (eds), 2018. Electrifying Anthropology: Exploring Electrical Practices and Infrastructures. Simone Abram, Brit Ross Winthereik and Thomas Yarrow (eds), 2019publishedVersionCopyright (c) 2019 Antti Silvast Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Comparative relativism: Symposium on an impossibility
No full textThis aim of this symposium is to place in unlikely conjunction the two terms comparison and relativism. On the one hand, comparison, in the most general sense, involves the investigation of discrete contexts to elucidate their similarities and differences. Comparative methods have been widely used in many social science disciplines, including history, linguistics, sociology, and anthropology
HOPEFUL COMPARISONS ON THE BRINK OF THE GRAVE
No full textThis commentary on Isabelle Stengers's article “Comparison as a Matter of Concern,” takes its entry point in a battle between comparisons: imposed comparisons, where extraneous, irrelevant criteria are laid down, and active, interested comparisons, where rapport is established between the scientist and the phenomenon she studies. According to Stengers, the comparison, which establishes rapport, is a crucial ingredient in good science. In the context of a symposium titled “Comparative Relativism,” perhaps the crucial point to make about what characterizes Stengers's matter of concern is that, in being utterly uninterested in defining absolute scales for comparison and in focusing only on the generative potential of comparing, she relativizes the very act of comparing. What matters to her is how experimental devices simultaneously sensitize their users to the phenomena at hand and to the workings of particular comparisons. Since (a relativized) comparison is a matter of concern to the scientists involved, finding out what other ways of comparing there are (besides objectivist comparison) should be a matter of concern to those of us who are engaged in studying knowledge production. This commentary suggests that “knowledge economy” researchers begin unpacking the science/industry collaboration through participation and careful analysis as a way of staying with the present moment.</jats:p
Chapter Four. Producing Alternative Objects Of Comparison In Healthcare: Following A Web-Based Technology For Asthma Treatment Through The Lab And The Clinic
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