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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: https://doi.org/qjnw

#Blackness #Circulation

Photograph of a group of people standing on a dock next to a boat in Jakarta. By Pradamas Gifarry under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/49JxOvU

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

👀https://doi.org/qh2x

#UrbanEntangledAreas

Photograph of a row of tall buildings sitting next to a lush green field. By Charlies X under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/441eYwJ.

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: https://doi.org/qh2v

#GeoColonialAssemblages #EntangledAreas

Color drawing of traditional gold smelters in Borneo in the mid 19th century. Depiction by Dutch colonial geologist Carl Anton L. M. Schwaner, 1853. Image in the public domain: https://bit.ly/3Mhaxrj.

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: https://doi.org/qh2t

#Anthropocene #Atmosphere #Dust #EntangledAreas

Photograph of a mountainous landscape in Nepal. By Tobias Federle under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/4pcslCP.

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: https://doi.org/qhrh

#CoastCities #UrbanJustice #CoastalAdaptation #UrbanAnthropology

Photograph by the authors of the article of a building partially under water.

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: https://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

👀 https://doi.org/qhcm

Piles of soil at the interface of a road and a water body. Photograph by the authors.

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": https://doi.org/qg64

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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

👀https://bit.ly/49RT8PW

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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: https://doi.org/pzvq

#makingspaceforMicrobes

Photograph of Sake being poured into decorative wedding cups. By Frederick Shaw under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/3IvgQFT

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: https://doi.org/pzvn

#scienceinculture #scicomm

A collage of 5 hand-drawn and computer-generated illustrations depicting the relation between the human gut and brain. Collage by the authors. Credits of individual images, from top left to bottom right (licenses purchased by the authors):
(i) Chombosan on iStock by Getty Images, 2023
(ii) Dave Cutler, 2015
(iii) Steven. Adobe Stock, 2020
(iv) Biocodex Microbiota Institute, 2017
(v) Anna Bergbauer on www.dreamstime.com, last accessed, 2025.

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: https://doi.org/pzvm

#ticks #chronicillness

Photograph of an orange tent and a green tent are set up on the hillside, with four mountains behind them. Photo by the author.

How can #EnvironmentalHealth focus on #multispecies connections rather than on pathologizing life forms as threats?

@anthrobite.bsky.social on a #biotechnology project in #Brazil for more convivial co-existence of humans mosquitos & pathogens: https://doi.org/pzvp

Close-up photograph of a mosquito on a leaf. By Erik Karits under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/4lraLJ8

Pathogens are socially & racially coded through the past and present of colonial relations, resulting in uneven configurations of health and blame

Read by Victoria Koski-Karell on the racialization of #cholera’s #pathogenicity in #Haiti: https://doi.org/pzvr

#Fanon #Wynter

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Postcolonial ideologies of #development contribute to the reproduction of racialized stereotypes in the biomedical approach to #antimicrobial resistance #hotspots

👀Read by Andrea Butcher on the cases of Bangladesh and Benin: https://doi.org/pzvs

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How can #STS expand the view of #microbes beyond the pathogenic, the human, and toward complex #ecologies?

👀 Read Cañada Sariola, and Rest's introduction of the thematic collection Microbes and STS: https://doi.org/pzvj

#humanmicroberelations #situatedknowledge

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How can #STS expand the view of #microbes beyond the pathogenic, the human, and toward complex #ecologies?

👀 Read Cañada, Sariola, and Rest's introduction of the thematic collection Microbes and STS: https://doi.org/pzvj

#humanmicroberelations #situatedknowledge

The Editorial for 11.1 reflects on the end of our tenure + the thematic collection on #STS #Situating #Microbes by asking:

Why does it matter to hold a #transnational #OpenAccess space for recording multiple forms of life + life forms in #transformation?

https://doi.org/pzvh

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📢Issue 11.1 out now!

7 articles from a thematic collection on #STS and #Situating #Microbes

+1 editorial reflecting on microbes ++ the transition of editorship through the lens of #transformations

👀https://bit.ly/4m31ese

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