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📢Issue 11.2 out now! 12 engagements from the thematic collection "Entangled Areas" on #STS & #SouthEastAsia in the #Anthropocene + the journal's editorial reflection on the collection ++ 1 ORA on the limits of standardization in police reporting 👀bit.ly/49RT8PW

How do crime analysts navigate the tensions between data from police reporting and the request to produce data analysis for governance purposes? How does it affect knowledge production in police work? 👀Read by M. Leese: doi.org/qjzw #Standardization #Desrosières

What is the role of #STS in reimagining #SoutheastAsia as an #Area? How can #STS do so without letting any single regime of spatial identity dominate to the extent that it becomes fixed or given? 👀Read T. Winichakul’s meditation in his Afterword: doi.org/qjxb

How may following the embodied and tactile worlding of the #durian fruit add generative possibilities to well-rehearsed critiques of #AreaStudies? 👀"Manifesto of the Durian" by @FadjarThufail: doi.org/qjwq #SoutheastAsia #EntangledAreas #Multispecies #Topology

#Areas are not containers—they materialise, for example, as the changing set of #multispecies entanglements linking humans, cattle, chemicals, and cultural tastes across borders 👀Read by @JirapornZwemmer on Southeast Asian cross-border #CattleTrade: doi.org/qjv4

By following #malaria across Greater Mekong #borderlands—& its links to Africa through parasites, research networks + postcolonial histories—this article rethinks what #regions are & why they matter for #GlobalMalariaControl 👀Read by @imagethnography: doi.org/qjvz

How does #RacialBelonging mediate the production of #PopularTerritories & thereby unsettle + rearticulate dominant understandings of #area? 👀Read by @XazaarAdjame on the collective life in movement of #Indonesian #UrbanYouth: doi.org/qjnw #Blackness #Circulation

Taking the example of peripheral urban gardens in Manila @ksaguin reconceptualizes #Area within #Urbanism + #SoutheastAsia, shifting from static spatial formulations toward its generative capacities for multiplicity & heterogeneity 👀doi.org/qh2x #UrbanEntangledAreas

This engagement urges readers to rethink Southeast Asian studies by delving into how #SoutheastAsia as an #area emerged through & is shaped by the colonial logic of #EconomicGeology 👀@karib.13 & D. Listiana: doi.org/qh2v #GeoColonialAssemblages #EntangledAreas

This engagement urges readers to rethink Southeast Asian studies by delving into how #SoutheastAsia as an #area emerged through & is shaped by the colonial logic of #EconomicGeology 👀@karib.13 & D. Listiana: doi.org/qh2v #GeoColonialAssemblages #EntangledAreas

How can rising fine-dust pollution in #Zomia signal how this historically autonomous highland region of #SoutheastAsia is being transformed by new forms of #EnvironmentalExploitation? 👀Read by @jonanthro: doi.org/qh2t #Anthropocene #Atmosphere #Dust #EntangledAreas

How do #Indonesia’s #tsunami-warning systems mediate social + environmental life, shaping and interconnecting imagined spaces and the meanings different groups attach to them? 👀 Read Irina Rafliana's engagement: doi.org/qhwf #EntangledAreas #SoutheastAsia

How can the idea of #buoyancy help question the hype around #FloatingCities amid the rapid submergence of #SoutheastAsia’s coastlines? 👀Read @rsiriw & M. S. C. Gemilang: doi.org/qhrh #CoastCities #UrbanJustice #CoastalAdaptation #UrbanAnthropology

How can the idea of #buoyancy help question the hype around #FloatingCities amid the rapid submergence of #SoutheastAsia’s coastlines? 👀Read @rsiriw & M. S. C. Gemilang: doi.org/qhrh #CoastCities #UrbanJustice #CoastalAdaptation #UrbanAnthropology

In this #collaborative engagement, Zahirah, Klein, Bogart, Keller, Huang & Gutierrez explore the potential of #sediments in #CoastalEnvironments for rethinking the #entanglements of history, policy + national #developmentalism in #SoutheastAsia 👀 doi.org/qhcm

How can the concept of #entanglement help to think anew about #areas & #SoutheastAsia in the #Anthropocene? What new #STS reflections does it open up to? 👀@cbruunjensen@bsky.social + F. Thufail's intro of their thematic collection "Entangled Areas": doi.org/qg64

The Society for Social Studies of Science is hiring a Website Coordinator (10h per week / 1 year contract) here: 4sonline.org/news_manager.p…

Can the scientific practice of #KnowingMicrobes rely on inquiry and interdependence instead of control? Read the study by @heymayahey on fermentation as an #epistemic practice in a #sake #brewery in #Japan: doi.org/pzvq #makingspaceforMicrobes

Images play a crucial role in mediating the relationship between #microbes & humans at the interface of science+society 👀Whiteley Nygaard & Glerup on human agency in the depiction of the relation between #microbiome & #mind: doi.org/pzvn #scienceinculture #scicomm

Evaluating health risks is not limited to pathogens, and depends on views of the environment @RittiSoncco on the construction of Scottish landscapes as beautiful & safe that renders the high prevalence of #lymedisease invisible: doi.org/pzvm #ticks #chronicillness