http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/taxonomy/term/41 en http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/168 Anthropology Politics <p>If one takes seriously the notion of cosmopolitics developped by Isabelle Stengers and the diplomatic work it entails, one is engaged in a rethinking of the link between cultures and natures –now in the plural- ; it is argued here that the extension of nature can no longer count as the diplomatic way of creating a common world ; alternatives are explored including the notion of constructivisme, an unlikely candidate at first, but a good possibility in the end.</p> Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:47:05 +0000 admin 168 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/188 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/188" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Actor-Network-Theory Anthropology Social Theory <p>Asked to participate in a reflexion of primatologists on what has shaped their discipline over the past half-century, the paper offers an alternative account to the optical metaphors of biases, paradigms and points of views. It is trying to define an other demarcation criterion which does not rely on what is scientific and what is not scientific, on what is inside or outside, but on the risk taken by the scientists and their objects of study.</p> Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:04:59 +0000 admin 188 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/209 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/209" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Anthropology Ecology & Political Ecology Social Theory <p>Cosmopolitism is one of the great traditions in political philosophy, human rights and international law. There is however, a much more recent and small interest in cosmo-politics, as exemplified by Isabelle Stengers’ philosophy. In the first one, the cosmos –assimilated with nature- is taken for granted and politics is taken as meaning international or global. In the other tradition, however, cosmos and its potential unity is precisely what is up for grabs. The paper comments Ulrich Beck’s lead article and increases the contrast between the two.</p> Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:15:25 +0000 admin 209 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/260 Anthropology Sociology of Science <p>After swift advances the field of social studies of science is now stuck a corner; this deadlock is due to the acceptance by social scientists of the Kantian copernican revolution; the paper shows how to do a counter-copernican revolution, and offers a precise way to deconstruct both nature and society without getting into post-modernist philosophy and offers a map to sort out the various research programs in science studies.</p> Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:41:11 +0000 admin 260 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/272 Anthropology Sociology of Science <p>Essay review on the books of Shapin and Schaffer Leviathan and the Air Pump, Serres Statues, and Traweek's account of the Standford accelerator; these three books are used to show the limits and interest of an antropology of science that goes beyond the definition of our world as modern.</p> Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:36:22 +0000 admin 272 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/293 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/293" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Anthropology History of Science Viualization <p>It would be nice to be able to define what is specific to our modem scientific culture. It would be still nicer to find the most economical explanation (which might not be the most economic one) of its origins and special characteristics. To arrive at a parsimonious explanation it is best not to appeal to universal traits of nature.</p> Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:11:52 +0000 admin 293 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/536 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/536" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Anthropology Compositionism Modes of Existence <p>If it is notably difficult to do the anthropology of those who invented the anthropology of ''others'', it is in part because they have managed to avoid doing their own. This most primitive and most aboriginal lack of reflexivity makes any sort of self-examination a skewed enterprise. This is why it is fairly useless to try to distinguish philosophy from anthropology when one wishes to find one's way through such an entangled jungle.</p> Tue, 26 Nov 2013 09:34:06 +0000 admin 536 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/540 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/540" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Anthropology Modes of existence <p>As every ethnographer knows, in addition to the many blunders every one of us commits in the course of our fieldwork, there exist also graver mistakes when we sense a mistaken regime of reality granted to an entity. It is at those moments, usually the most revealing in the course of our inquiries, when we try to repair broken relations by some innovative move to define the status of the contrasting realities that have been open to misinterpretation.</p> Sat, 14 Dec 2013 15:40:55 +0000 admin 540 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/575 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/575" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Anthropology Technology <p>For many years now, Pierre Lemonnier has tried to convince the anthropological community of the importance of technology (in the French sense of a study of techniques). His early work had been marked by the necessity of insisting on the material dimension of human activities, an aspect of activity that many of his colleagues, intoxicated by the notion of a symbolic dimension, had a tendency to overlook.</p> Sat, 19 Jul 2014 08:52:29 +0000 admin 575 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/592 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/592" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Actor-Network-Theory Anthropology Ecology & Political Ecology <p><a href="https://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/view/hau4.2.014" rel="nofollow">https://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/view/hau4.2.014</a></p> Fri, 17 Oct 2014 06:42:36 +0000 admin 592 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr