Angela Okune Annotations

Across Scales and Systems (https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/sketch-2-across-scales-and-systems/essay)

Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - 2:43pm
  • deutero [reflective/learning capacity]: How are people and organizations denoting and worrying about the phenomena you study?

Researchers living and working in Nairobi are worried that their research practices are experienced as extractive by those they study. They are worried for multiple reasons - because it could taint their data if only a small subset continue to participate, they might be viewed as unethical by funders, the broader communities, etc. etc.

  • meta [dominant discourses]: What discourses constitute and circulate around the phenomena you study? Where are there discursive risks and gaps?

YOUR RESPONSE HERE

  • macro [law, political economy]: What laws and economies undergird and shape the power the phenomena you study?

YOUR RESPONSE HERE

  • meso [organizations]: What organizations are implicated in the phenomena you study? What geopolitics are in play?

YOUR RESPONSE HERE

  • bio [bodies]: What are the bodily effects of the phenomena you study? 

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  • micro [practices]: What (labor, reproductive, communicative) practices constitute and are animated by the phenomena you study? 

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  • nano [language, subjectivity]: What kinds of subjects are produced by and imbricated in the phenomena you study? 

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  • edxo [education and expertise]: What modes of expertise and education are imbricated in the phenomena you study? 

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  • data [data infrastructure]: What data, infrastructure, analytic and visualization capabilities account for and animate the phenomena you study? 

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  • techno [roads, transport]: What technical conditions produce and delimit the phenomena you study? 

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  • eco-atmo [ecology, climate]: What ecological and climatic conditions situate the phenomena you study?

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  • geo [earth systems]: What geological formations, contaminations, resources and scarcities ground the phenomena?

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