The mechanical properties of magnetorheological (MR) materials can be changed continuously, rapidly and reversibly by an applied magnetic field. Solid MR materials consist of magnetically polarisable particles, generally iron, in an elastomer matrix. The required iron concentration is high, about 30% by volume. Problems and solutions will be discussed related to MR-technology. Finally long-term...

model. This is one of a number of features of what Marcus (1998) promotes in his treatise on multisite ethnography. He writes: The most common construction of holism in contemporary realist ethnography... is the situation of the ethnographic subject and scene as a knowable, fully probed micro-world with reference to an encompassing macro-world –the "system"– which, presumably, is not knowable o...

In this article I suggest that "population" operates as a capacious domain of modern power, with its own imaginaries, discourses, bureaucratic apparatuses, and social effects. Taking China, home to the world's largest population, as my ethnographic case, I examine the role of "birth planning," China's distinctive Marxist-Leninist-Maoist approach to population control, in the construction of "Ch...

This article explores the relationship of Foucault to Marxism. Although he was often critical of Marxism, Foucault’s own approach bears striking parallels to Marxism, as a form of method, as an account of history, and as an analysis of social structure. Like Marxism, Foucault represents social practices as transitory and all knowledge and intellectual formations as linked to social relations an...

Through ethnographic comparison with Ecuador, I localize North American and European ethical debates about embryos. In Ecuador, some in vitro fertilization (IVF) practitioners and patients do whatever they can to preserve the life of embryos through donation or cryopreservation. For this group, embryos are embroiled in debates about life, as they commonly are in North America. However, other Ec...

Many contemporary indigenous movements deploy strategies of counterglobalization that make innovative use of the architecture of globalization. This article examines an indigenous political movement that took legal action to gain compensation and limit the environmental impact of the Ok Tedi copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea. Even though the campaign sought to balance the desire for econ...

This article investigates the relationship between genetic determinism and the discourse of risk by making use of an elaboration of the concept of governmentality developed by Michel Foucault. After a short outline of the theoretical profile of the employed risk analysis, the main part of the text distinguishes three core level of analysis. With a view to illustrating several aspects of a ‘gene...

We have analyzed two variants of Drosophila melanogaster (RS and RE) which lead to the dual phenotype of elevated DDC activity and increased resistance to dietary alpha-methyldopa relative to Oregon-R controls. Both phenotypes show tight genetic linkage to the dopa decarboxylase, Ddc, and l(2)amd genes (i.e., < 0.05 cM distant). We find that low (Oregon-R), medium (RS) and high (RE and Canton-S...

On February 2, 1983, during his lecture at Collège de France, Michel Foucault criticizes the concept of political (le politique). According to Foucault, shift from politics (la politique) masks “the specific problem and set problems politics, dunasteia, practice game, game as a field experience with its rules normativity, inasmuch it is indexed truth-telling involves certain relationship onesel...

This paper introduces the Anthropocene idea as a problem space with salience for Caribbean anthropology and the Caribbean travel industry. The term is used by scientists to define the present era in which human processes operate at the scale of the Earth’s geologic and biological systems, and it has come to justify a host of current actions in the name of sustainability. Through the examination...