Collective food procurement as responsible innovation
Collective food procurement is an emerging phenomenon at multiple levels, well beyond purchasing: for example through foraging and self-production; short food chains and direct sales; or food governance through local institutions, but also through networks of NGOs. On February 4th 2022 the 'Food Citizens?' Conference at Leiden University wrapped up the first four and half years of research of the ERC Consolidator project 'Collective Food Procurement in European Cities: Solidarity and Diversity, Skill and Scale'. - More
by Redazione FGB, 17 February 2022 Permalink
Read also: Omeopatia del rifiuto and Innovating Food, Innovating the Law
What do epidemiologists do? Investigating a controversial symptomatology in Colombia
An anthropological research that analyzes the epidemiological practice used to address a mysterious outbreak that developed after the administration of the HPV vaccine. - More
by Maurizia Mezza, 5 November 2019 Permalink
Categories Bioethics, Governance, Policy, Politics, Practice, Responsibility and Science, anthropology
The Self At Your Wrist - 3/3
The interaction between the human body and electronics is a process that started at a distant point in time. Anyone who thinks that this is just a simple evolution due to hardware miniaturization is guilty of oversimplification. Part 3 of 3. - More
by Fabio Besti, 28 April 2015 Permalink
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Read also: Journal of Responsible Innovation review
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, New Technologies, Responsibility and Science, anthropology, enhancement
The Self At Your Wrist - 2/3
The interaction between the human body and electronics is a process that started at a distant point in time. Anyone who thinks that this is just a simple evolution due to hardware miniaturization is guilty of oversimplification. Part 2 of 3. - More
by Fabio Besti, 27 April 2015 Permalink
Leggi in Italiano
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, New Technologies, Responsibility and Science, anthropology, enhancement
The Self At Your Wrist - 1/3
The interaction between the human body and electronics is a process that started at a distant point in time. Anyone who thinks that this is just a simple evolution due to hardware miniaturization is guilty of oversimplification. Part 1 of 3. - More
by Fabio Besti, 24 April 2015 Permalink
Leggi in Italiano
Categories Innovation and Responsibility, New Technologies, Responsibility and Science, anthropology, enhancement
Leggi in Italiano
Read also: Uncertainty and disquiet and Omeopatia del rifiuto
Uncertainty and disquiet
The call for papers "Who is Responsible" has invited ethnographic reflections on the diverse meanings and use of a term, "responsibility" which "has become such a conspicuous terms in contemporary thought styles", to highlight its salience in contemporary culture and governance. - More
by Cristina Grasseni, 23 July 2012 Permalink
Categories Responsibility, anthropology
About the Anthropology of globalization (2)
The essay by Monica Lindh de Montoya "Il mercato come specchio o modello. Come i commercianti riconfigurano le transazioni economiche e sociali in un'economia rurale" (The market as a mirror and model. How merchants re-frame economic and social transactions in a rural economy), first published in 1999, investigates cultural change in an agricultural community in Bailadores, Venezuela, fueled by vegetable and particularly garlic production for the national market. A reading by Guido Carlotto and comment by Valentina Porcellana. - (post in Italian) - More
by Redazione FGB, 26 September 2008 Permalink
Categories anthropology
About the Anthropology of globalization
Some brief thoughts about the essay "Per l'antropologia economica: culture e pratiche nella divisione sociale del lavoro" (For an economic anthropology: culture and practice in the social division of work), that opens the volume "Antropologia della globalizzazione" (The Anthropology of Globalization) proposed by Giulio Sapelli - (post in Italian) - More
by Redazione FGB, 5 September 2008 Permalink
See also: Storicizzare la scienza, Una nuova educazione per il futuro della biosfera and the review of Panzarani's book "L'innovazione a colori".
Categories anthropology
Categories anthropology
Of flies and forests: putting laboratory work in its social context (part 1)
In this interview to Sophie Houdart taken at the Cerisy Cultural Centre, we debated on the many links between the ethnography of science and the interrogation on responsible innovation. The work of Sophie Houdart brings to the fore many important categories, that of fact and that of event, the idea of a moral responsibility of the scientist for the kind of "objects" he/she creates in the laboratory, and the scientist's awareness of the relevance of their work for society at large. - More
by Redazione FGB, 23 November 2007 Permalink
Categories anthropology
How to map complex issues?
In this interview, taken at the Cerisy colloquium organised by Bruno Latour and Philippe Descola on "L'anthropologie historique de la raison scientifique", (July 12th- 19th 2006), Cristina Grasseni gathered Bruno Latour's view s on responsible innovation and its relevance to the research agenda of historians, anthropologists, philosophers and sociologists of science. - More
by Redazione FGB, 11 June 2007 Permalink
See also: Latour in the Call fro Comment Which responsibility?
Second thoughts on responsibility
"From Causality to Responsibility: Steps towards the Unknown" by Mariachiara Tallacchini. Contemporary scientific knowledge is characterized increasingly by uncertainty (O'Riordan and Cameron, 1994). This is due not only because both the risks and the unpredictability linked to it are increasing, but... - More
by Redazione FGB, 24 June 2006 Permalink
'Which responsibility?' Chiusura del call
Chiudendo questo call for comments sullo statuto corrente della responsabilità dell'innovazione, ringrazio tutti coloro che hanno partecipato e si sono interrogati sulle questioni poste. Gli interventi - come era naturale... - More
by Redazione FGB, 2 April 2006 Permalink
Which responsibility? - part 1- ...This call for comments continues in the next entry...
The ambitious goal of this call is that of initiating an exploration of possible ways of reflecting on the concepts of responsibility and innovation, without losing sight of the social,... - More
by Redazione FGB, 2 February 2006 Permalink
Categories anthropology, arts
Categories anthropology, arts
Categories Responsibility, anthropology
Slow food, fast genes: the different timescapes of innovation and responsibility in the anthropology of food (2)
(continuing from "Slow food, fast genes... (1)") Timescapes of authenticity Innovation or creativity: which is the best concept for explaining the kind of novelty that affects our daily consumption of... - More
by Redazione FGB, 6 June 2005 Permalink
Slow food, fast genes: the different timescapes of innovation and responsibility in the anthropology of food (1)
This is a first attempt at focussing on issues and questions of timescapes, responsibility and creativity with regard to the issue of the production and consumption of food in contemporary Italy. - More
by Redazione FGB, 5 June 2005 Permalink
Categories anthropology, precautionary principle
Categories anthropology
