Women playa prominent role as traders in the central market of the regional capital ofKaolack, a ... more Women playa prominent role as traders in the central market of the regional capital ofKaolack, a multi-ethnic, predominantly Wolof city in Senegal. This article examines gender and class in relation to the social uses of space that reproduce social hierarchy, while facilitating challenges to the dominant social order. Challenges take the form of activities such as smuggling, seen as an assertion of regional autonomy. The terms "center" and "periphery," along with the concept of hegemony, are used to explore tensions between structures of domination and assertions of autonomy at both the macro and the micro levels. Wolof cultural values linking hierarchy to physical activity are important to this dynamic.
Our chapters-one focused on the environment of pregnancy, the other on agricultural environments-... more Our chapters-one focused on the environment of pregnancy, the other on agricultural environments-share a concern with the role of nourishment in sustaining life. Both consider the thresholds beyond which organisms cease to thrive. And both recognize nourishment, as a practice of care, to be fundamentally ongoing. You don't just arrive at care and be done; it must be sustained. In eating, satiety is pos si ble, but it never lasts for long. In our chapters and the collection overall, three overlapping terms-care, sustainability, nourishment-share a commitment to an ongoingness, to duration. In Emily's chapter on the placenta, the language we have to talk about the directionality of relations fails us. One challenge presented by gestational diabetes is knowing how to parse harm from care. Even health experts hesitate to make a diagnosis because what is harmful might be good and what is good might be harmful. It would be too simple to say a parent's affliction is good for a fetus because harm to the parent extends outward, encompassing others. Health is not singular but is, as in this book's title, "beside ourselves. " Deborah's chapter on regenerative biodynamics also helps us to grasp the grounded, material implications of a relational understanding of health. The roots and rhizomes of grapevines make nourishment possible when life is under threat. The vines open up meaning's multidirectionalities, giving us a denser vocabulary to conceptualize relationalities, extending to vio lence as well as to care. Grapevines, like other photosynthetic plants, occupy a threshold, as entities that on the one hand derive nourishment from the sun and on the other both derive and provide nourishment beneath the soil, in the terrestrial realm. In The Life of Plants (2018), Emanuele Coccia refers to sun-loving plants, with their dual orientation, as ontologically amphibious. They are si mul ta neously one thing and another, and theirs is a central world-making role. emily yates-doerr / deborah heath
chapter seven Between Sky and Earth biodynamic viticulture ' s slow science deborah heath standin... more chapter seven Between Sky and Earth biodynamic viticulture ' s slow science deborah heath standing at the threshold between local rootedness and global expansion, grapevines portend changes in our shared planetary metabolism. Deep-rooted, long-lived perennials of the genus Vitis, grapevines can persist in place for centuries, with some surviving specimens as much as four hundred years old. Anchored in their par tic u lar locales, grapes are touted by wine connoisseurs as exemplary emissaries of terroir, the "taste of place" (Trubek 2009), expressing the particularities of the limestone, or clay, or volcanic soil where they grow. They also actively participate in the microbial terroirs of their soil microbiomes and of the native yeasts that live on grape clusters. Biodynamic viticulture nurtures these local biologies that are threatened by conventional agriculture's chemical inputs and capitalism's enduring extractivism. Domesticated for millennia, grapes, and the means to ferment them, have also traveled widely with their human companions, following the paths of Roman and Eu ro pean imperial expansion and carried forth by traders, missionaries, and settler colonists, taking root in temperate zones on either side of the equator. Grapes' noteworthy sensitivity to temperature variation has
Food Culture and Society An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research
Based on our fieldwork with foie gras producers in the United States and France, this paper exami... more Based on our fieldwork with foie gras producers in the United States and France, this paper examines the relations among social, technical and nonhuman animal worlds in foie gras production. Expanding Mauss's classic conception of "techniques of the body" to include techniques that link animal and human bodies, we consider insights from science studies scholars like Haraway, Latour and Goodman. Posing the question of whether foie gras is natural or pathological, we juxtapose those who view foie gras production as the apotheosis of murderous meat production, and those who consider it to be a co-production between humans and animals, one that needs to be guided by an "ethics of care." Inspired in part by Temple Grandin's concept of humane slaughter, this ethics of care necessarily considers the wellbeing of animal and human co-producers, along with food safety and quality, as equally important foci for examining animal food production.
In 1994, John Wasmuth and his laboratory colleagues published an account of the discovery of FGFR... more In 1994, John Wasmuth and his laboratory colleagues published an account of the discovery of FGFR3, the gene for achondroplasia the most common form of heritable dwarfism in the journal Cell (Shiang et al. 1994). Hailed soon after in the Scientist as the article most ...
... Human Values Science, Technology & DOI: 10.1177/016224399802300104 1998; 23; 71 Science T... more ... Human Values Science, Technology & DOI: 10.1177/016224399802300104 1998; 23; 71 Science Technology Human Values Deborah Heath Its Traveling Constituencies Locating Genetic Knowledge: Picturing Marfan Syndrome and ... Deborah Heath Lewis and Clark College ...
Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 2010
Based on our fieldwork with foie gras producers in the United States and France, this paper exami... more Based on our fieldwork with foie gras producers in the United States and France, this paper examines the relations among social, technical and nonhuman animal worlds in foie gras production. Expanding Mauss's classic conception of "techniques of the body" to include techniques that link animal and human bodies, we consider insights from science studies scholars like Haraway, Latour and Goodman. Posing the question of whether foie gras is natural or pathological, we juxtapose those who view foie gras production as the apotheosis of murderous meat production, and those who consider it to be a co-production between humans and animals, one that needs to be guided by an "ethics of care." Inspired in part by Temple Grandin's concept of humane slaughter, this ethics of care necessarily considers the wellbeing of animal and human co-producers, along with food safety and quality, as equally important foci for examining animal food production.
Relations of dominance and subordination are social categories or folk models through which the m... more Relations of dominance and subordination are social categories or folk models through which the members of Senegalese society come to know their world and to act within it. As constructs of conscious existence they are "phenomenologically real, ...objects of direct experience" ( ...
Let us say that history, in its traditional form, undertook to 'memorize' the monuments of the pa... more Let us say that history, in its traditional form, undertook to 'memorize' the monuments of the past, transform them into documents...; in our time, history is that which transforms documents into monuments. [Foucault 1972:7] Report of an interview with Walter Gilbert, Nobel Prize-winning biologist who has called the Human Genome Project the "holy grail of biology": [Gilbert] agrees that the genome project has a monumental quality to it. "But I don't see it as pyramid building," he insists. "I see it for the use to which it will be put." Pause. "To continue the pyramid analogy, while it's got an element of monumentality, it's not an empty monument." [Kanige11987:101I CON(SENSUS IN)SCRIPTION AND THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT This article is a theoretical prologue for a long-term ethnographic study on the culture and politics of genetics. Ethnographic studies of science have given us a useful picture of the richly textured settings of laboratory life and scientific practice. A growing number of scholars have contributed to this field in the decade since the publication of Latour and Woolgar's (1986 [1979]) germinal work
This article concernswomen's images in ads, their responsesto those images, and advertisers... more This article concernswomen's images in ads, their responsesto those images, and advertisers methods of managing these responses. Feminist discourses have been rerouted in the mass media according to the logic of commodity relations. Rather than fight the legitimacy of ...
Women playa prominent role as traders in the central market of the regional capital ofKaolack, a ... more Women playa prominent role as traders in the central market of the regional capital ofKaolack, a multi-ethnic, predominantly Wolof city in Senegal. This article examines gender and class in relation to the social uses of space that reproduce social hierarchy, while facilitating challenges to the dominant social order. Challenges take the form of activities such as smuggling, seen as an assertion of regional autonomy. The terms "center" and "periphery," along with the concept of hegemony, are used to explore tensions between structures of domination and assertions of autonomy at both the macro and the micro levels. Wolof cultural values linking hierarchy to physical activity are important to this dynamic.
Our chapters-one focused on the environment of pregnancy, the other on agricultural environments-... more Our chapters-one focused on the environment of pregnancy, the other on agricultural environments-share a concern with the role of nourishment in sustaining life. Both consider the thresholds beyond which organisms cease to thrive. And both recognize nourishment, as a practice of care, to be fundamentally ongoing. You don't just arrive at care and be done; it must be sustained. In eating, satiety is pos si ble, but it never lasts for long. In our chapters and the collection overall, three overlapping terms-care, sustainability, nourishment-share a commitment to an ongoingness, to duration. In Emily's chapter on the placenta, the language we have to talk about the directionality of relations fails us. One challenge presented by gestational diabetes is knowing how to parse harm from care. Even health experts hesitate to make a diagnosis because what is harmful might be good and what is good might be harmful. It would be too simple to say a parent's affliction is good for a fetus because harm to the parent extends outward, encompassing others. Health is not singular but is, as in this book's title, "beside ourselves. " Deborah's chapter on regenerative biodynamics also helps us to grasp the grounded, material implications of a relational understanding of health. The roots and rhizomes of grapevines make nourishment possible when life is under threat. The vines open up meaning's multidirectionalities, giving us a denser vocabulary to conceptualize relationalities, extending to vio lence as well as to care. Grapevines, like other photosynthetic plants, occupy a threshold, as entities that on the one hand derive nourishment from the sun and on the other both derive and provide nourishment beneath the soil, in the terrestrial realm. In The Life of Plants (2018), Emanuele Coccia refers to sun-loving plants, with their dual orientation, as ontologically amphibious. They are si mul ta neously one thing and another, and theirs is a central world-making role. emily yates-doerr / deborah heath
chapter seven Between Sky and Earth biodynamic viticulture ' s slow science deborah heath standin... more chapter seven Between Sky and Earth biodynamic viticulture ' s slow science deborah heath standing at the threshold between local rootedness and global expansion, grapevines portend changes in our shared planetary metabolism. Deep-rooted, long-lived perennials of the genus Vitis, grapevines can persist in place for centuries, with some surviving specimens as much as four hundred years old. Anchored in their par tic u lar locales, grapes are touted by wine connoisseurs as exemplary emissaries of terroir, the "taste of place" (Trubek 2009), expressing the particularities of the limestone, or clay, or volcanic soil where they grow. They also actively participate in the microbial terroirs of their soil microbiomes and of the native yeasts that live on grape clusters. Biodynamic viticulture nurtures these local biologies that are threatened by conventional agriculture's chemical inputs and capitalism's enduring extractivism. Domesticated for millennia, grapes, and the means to ferment them, have also traveled widely with their human companions, following the paths of Roman and Eu ro pean imperial expansion and carried forth by traders, missionaries, and settler colonists, taking root in temperate zones on either side of the equator. Grapes' noteworthy sensitivity to temperature variation has
Food Culture and Society An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research
Based on our fieldwork with foie gras producers in the United States and France, this paper exami... more Based on our fieldwork with foie gras producers in the United States and France, this paper examines the relations among social, technical and nonhuman animal worlds in foie gras production. Expanding Mauss's classic conception of "techniques of the body" to include techniques that link animal and human bodies, we consider insights from science studies scholars like Haraway, Latour and Goodman. Posing the question of whether foie gras is natural or pathological, we juxtapose those who view foie gras production as the apotheosis of murderous meat production, and those who consider it to be a co-production between humans and animals, one that needs to be guided by an "ethics of care." Inspired in part by Temple Grandin's concept of humane slaughter, this ethics of care necessarily considers the wellbeing of animal and human co-producers, along with food safety and quality, as equally important foci for examining animal food production.
In 1994, John Wasmuth and his laboratory colleagues published an account of the discovery of FGFR... more In 1994, John Wasmuth and his laboratory colleagues published an account of the discovery of FGFR3, the gene for achondroplasia the most common form of heritable dwarfism in the journal Cell (Shiang et al. 1994). Hailed soon after in the Scientist as the article most ...
... Human Values Science, Technology & DOI: 10.1177/016224399802300104 1998; 23; 71 Science T... more ... Human Values Science, Technology & DOI: 10.1177/016224399802300104 1998; 23; 71 Science Technology Human Values Deborah Heath Its Traveling Constituencies Locating Genetic Knowledge: Picturing Marfan Syndrome and ... Deborah Heath Lewis and Clark College ...
Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 2010
Based on our fieldwork with foie gras producers in the United States and France, this paper exami... more Based on our fieldwork with foie gras producers in the United States and France, this paper examines the relations among social, technical and nonhuman animal worlds in foie gras production. Expanding Mauss's classic conception of "techniques of the body" to include techniques that link animal and human bodies, we consider insights from science studies scholars like Haraway, Latour and Goodman. Posing the question of whether foie gras is natural or pathological, we juxtapose those who view foie gras production as the apotheosis of murderous meat production, and those who consider it to be a co-production between humans and animals, one that needs to be guided by an "ethics of care." Inspired in part by Temple Grandin's concept of humane slaughter, this ethics of care necessarily considers the wellbeing of animal and human co-producers, along with food safety and quality, as equally important foci for examining animal food production.
Relations of dominance and subordination are social categories or folk models through which the m... more Relations of dominance and subordination are social categories or folk models through which the members of Senegalese society come to know their world and to act within it. As constructs of conscious existence they are "phenomenologically real, ...objects of direct experience" ( ...
Let us say that history, in its traditional form, undertook to 'memorize' the monuments of the pa... more Let us say that history, in its traditional form, undertook to 'memorize' the monuments of the past, transform them into documents...; in our time, history is that which transforms documents into monuments. [Foucault 1972:7] Report of an interview with Walter Gilbert, Nobel Prize-winning biologist who has called the Human Genome Project the "holy grail of biology": [Gilbert] agrees that the genome project has a monumental quality to it. "But I don't see it as pyramid building," he insists. "I see it for the use to which it will be put." Pause. "To continue the pyramid analogy, while it's got an element of monumentality, it's not an empty monument." [Kanige11987:101I CON(SENSUS IN)SCRIPTION AND THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT This article is a theoretical prologue for a long-term ethnographic study on the culture and politics of genetics. Ethnographic studies of science have given us a useful picture of the richly textured settings of laboratory life and scientific practice. A growing number of scholars have contributed to this field in the decade since the publication of Latour and Woolgar's (1986 [1979]) germinal work
This article concernswomen's images in ads, their responsesto those images, and advertisers... more This article concernswomen's images in ads, their responsesto those images, and advertisers methods of managing these responses. Feminist discourses have been rerouted in the mass media according to the logic of commodity relations. Rather than fight the legitimacy of ...
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