Assembling Upstream Engagement: the Case of the Portuguese Deliberative Forum on Nanotechnologies

Carvalho, António; Nunes, João Arriscado

doi:10.1007/s11569-018-0314-0

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“…Our research centre has historically attempted to promote "ecologies of knowledge", engaging with ontologies and voices from the Global South to imagine alternatives to modern hegemonic epistemologies. In the past, we have engaged with counter-hegemonic methodologies -such as Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Boal's Theater of the Oppressed -to produce alternatives to dominant approaches regarding public engagement with emerging technologies (Carvalho and Nunes 2018). Moreover, Author 1 is a researcher in the field of Science and Technology Studies and a long-term meditator, with interest in the potential of contemplative and artistic practices to engage with sociotechnical controversies and non-human agency more broadly.…”

Section: Pluriversal Methodologies In Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Listening-with the subaltern: Anthropocene, Pluriverse and more-than-human agency

Carvalho

Riquito

2022

NGP

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The Anthropocene brings to the fore the need to foster ontologies that reject the modern “one-world world” (Law 2015) model, characterized by extractivism, dualism and human exceptionalism, requiring the enactment of pluriverses (de la Cadena & Blaser 2018) that recognize the heterogeneous clamor of human and non-human agency. As an attempt to listen-with those oppressed and silenced by the modern extractivist paradigm, in this paper, we propose the mobilization of relational, dialogic and nondualistic methodologies that attend to subaltern and more-than-human worlds. Drawing on a variety of sources – such as the Parliament of Things, the Council of All Beings, the Pedagogy of the Oppressed, meditative and artistic practices –, our article speculatively engages with affective, situated, hybrid and counter hegemonic methodologies that articulate contemplative practices, the arts, more-than-human agency and local communities, recognizing that politics, aesthetics and affect are intimately entwined. Our experimental endeavour is centred on three case studies that encapsulate some of the socio-political and technological tensions of our current zeitgeist – wildfires, geoengineering, and lithium mining –, speculating on how pluriversal methodologies can bring to the fore the many worlds silenced by the modern “one-world world”.

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Section: Pluriversal Methodologies In Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Listening-with the subaltern: Anthropocene, Pluriverse and more-than-human agency

Carvalho

Riquito

2022

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“…Moreover, socially engaged pedagogical interventions, such as Freire's approach, explicitly rely on local epistemologies and practices, questioning the teacher/student dualism. More recently, a number of methodological innovations have been developed to allow lay citizens and experts to discuss the potential effects of emerging technologies, still in the making 26 .…”

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Towards post-colonial capacity-building methodologies – some remarks on the experiences of health researchers from Mozambique and Angola

Carvalho

Ferrinho

Craveiro

2019

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This paper analyzes capacity building in practice, addressing the expectations, imaginaries and experiences of health researchers from Mozambique and Angola. The empirical data stems from the Erasmus+ funded project “University Development and Innovation – Africa (UDI-A)”, a consortium established between European and African institutions to promote the mobility and empowerment of African academics, the establishment of North/South research partnerships and the strengthening of African institutions. Through qualitative research methods – semi-structured interviews and a focus group with African participants, and participant observation – this article analyzes the experiences of African academics working in the health field, their perceptions of capacity building and aspirations during their stay in Portugal in 2018. By addressing some of their concerns and achievements, this paper reflects on the performativity of capacity building methodologies, exploring a wide range of issues that emerge within the framework of North/South partnerships, inquiring whether it would be possible to decolonize capacity-building methodologies.

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“…There are many projects to bring scientific knowledge to society (e.g. Nunes, 2012;Viseu and Maguire, 2012;Martin et al, 2015;Di Giulio et al, 2016;Carvalho and Nunes, 2018;Fasanello et al, 2018;Nunes et al, 2018;Pickersgill et al, 2019). Among others, the anthropologist Christopher Toumey has been especially concerned with this arrival.…”

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Linking worlds: a theoretical reflection on some preconditions for ethnographic collaborations in personalized medicine

Costa¹

2019

Antrop. Port.

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Precision, or personalized, medicine (PM) is a ground-breaking approach to medical care which aims to predict, prevent and treat diseases by studying, on an individual scale, the pathogenic potential of the association between genetic and environmental factors. As one of the most important outcomes of biotechnological research, PM is generated in the lab. Nonetheless, the impacts of PM will be observed outside of the lab, namely, on the modification of population’s patterns of use and access to healthcare. Taking PM as object of study, anthropologists are challenged to make a double reflection. The first consists in understanding which peculiarities an ethnography should have to grasp engineers’ and other experts’ underlying modes of knowing and doing inside de lab. The second, more analytical, consists in identifying the indicators revealed by that ethnography which may promote an interpretation of how these modes simultaneously mirror and resonate a given cultural will located both upstream and downstream the lab — from and to outside of it. The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the hypothesis stressing that an ethnographic collaboration might configure an effective way of doing this.

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Assembling Upstream Engagement: the Case of the Portuguese Deliberative Forum on Nanotechnologies

Cited by 9 publications

References 34 publications

Listening-with the subaltern: Anthropocene, Pluriverse and more-than-human agency

Listening-with the subaltern: Anthropocene, Pluriverse and more-than-human agency

Towards post-colonial capacity-building methodologies – some remarks on the experiences of health researchers from Mozambique and Angola

Linking worlds: a theoretical reflection on some preconditions for ethnographic collaborations in personalized medicine

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