Questions of community are central to many research sites in the social sciences. Rabinow argued that, in the wake of the Human Genome Project, an increasingly important form of collectivity would be biosociality. Biosociality highlights the central role of biomedical knowledge in constructing genetic identities and producing and reproducing social relationships. Accordingly, it is often imagin...

Questions of community are central to many research settings in the social sciences. Rabinow argued that, in the wake of the Human Genome Project, an increasingly important form of collectivity would be biosociality. Biosociality recognises a central role for biomedical knowledge in constructing genetic identities and producing and reproducing social relationships. Accordingly, it is often imag...

this ethnography is a dialogic ethnography between field and two researchers. dialogic ethnography or dialogic anthropology was a result of textual revolution in discipline. textual or interpretive anthropology has been definition of culture as text founded in 1970s and 1980s. geertzian textual revolution considered and interpreted events and actions as texts. marcus, clifford, rabinow, crapanz...

Is the development of synthetic biology threatened by sharing and ownership issues? What measures are synthetic biologists taking to address intellectual property and commons issues that may threaten development of the field? Part I presents a conceptual framework for the analysis of ownership and sharing in emerging technologies, organized around two dimensions -a private ownership vs commons ...

Anthropology, sociology, and related subfields of history have increasingly taken “practices” as their primary object of study in the last several decades of the twentieth century. Applications of the practice idiom extend from the most mundane aspects of everyday life to highly structured activities in institutional settings. Some of the patterns of performances identified as “practices” are q...

The study of colloidal dispersions of micro-nano sized particles in a liquid is of great interest for industrial processes and technological applications. The understanding of the microstructure and fundamental properties of this kind of systems at microscopic level is also useful for biological and biomedical applications. However, a colloidal suspension must be placed somewhere and the dynami...

In this article, I investigate the biopolitical economy of security as it is operating today in the United States in the context of infectious disease research. Drawing on my work with influenza researchers, I specifically show how experts have been concerned not only with the circulation of biological matter but also with the exchange of scientific information. I argue that it is a specific lo...