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标题：What is “(un)making” STS ethnographies? Reflections (not exclusively) from Latin America
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作者：Tania Pérez-Bustos ; Santiago Martinez Medina ; Fredy Mora-Gámez 等
期刊名称：Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
电子版ISSN：2572-9861
出版年度：2018
卷号：1
期号：1
页码：131-137
DOI：10.1080/25729861.2018.1551825
语种：English
出版社：Taylor & Francis Group
摘要：In a recent article published in a Colombian Journal, Cristóbal Bonelli invites us to “build onthe ontological interest of ANT regarding the ‘politics of things’ by developing the politicsof ‘where’”1 (2016, 24). It involves producing a conceptual space allowing the features ofethnographic materials to establish the conceptual terms used to ethnographicallydescribe them. He draws on Annemarie Mol’s invitation to rethink politics, as usual, concerned with who can speak and act. Mol and Bonelli encourage to redirect our attentiontowards what is enacted in every specific context of practice. Thereby, for Mol, politics isopen to things in the process of its emerging existence. Bonelli elaborates this distinctionfor the case of concepts by avoiding the usual differentiation between meanings andmateriality. Concepts, inasmuch as empirical objects of the world, are the outcome ofthe onto-epistemic practices that produce them. Hence, it is plausible to revisit their politics, not only regarding “who” and “what,” but also by reflecting on “where.