How does ANT help us to rethink the city and its promises?

Färber, Alexa

doi:10.4324/9781315111667-29

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“…The observation of the expansion of quick farming as part of a peri-urban promissory assemblage (Färber 2020) underscores the significance of an affective orientation in the pursuit of particular livelihoods. The flexibility described by the farmers in finding capital, navigating markets for inputs and outputs, and for continuing to try and to tweak their methods is central to entrepreneurialism, as described by Carla Freeman; the ability to respond to ever-changing circumstances, to re-tool and re-train.…”

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“…Quick farming, then, emerges ethnographically both as a literal translation of the ability for particular breeds to be nurtured quickly ('enunda eya mangu' as farmers described it in Luganda) and as an analytic concept for the wider quest for rapid production described above. It emerges amidst what has elsewhere been termed a promissory assemblage of the urban (Färber 2020). Alexa Färber, an urban anthropologist, draws on Actor Network Theory in her work to observe how for example low-budget housing, consumption and mobility often become unfulfilled promises in the city that are experienced alongside the enduring promises of the city.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Pharmaceuticalised livelihoods: antibiotics and the rise of ‘Quick Farming’ in peri-urban Uganda

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The ‘livestock revolution’ has seen the lives and livelihoods of peri-urban peoples increasingly intertwine with pigs and poultry across Africa in response to a rising demand for meat protein. This ‘revolution’ heralds the potential to address both poverty and nutritional needs. However, the intensification of farming has sparked concern, including for antibiotic misuse and its consequences for antimicrobial resistance (AMR). These changes reflect a micro-biopolitical conundrum where the agendas of microbes, farmers, publics, authorities and transnational agencies are in tension. To understand this requires close attention to the practices, principles and potentials held between these actors. Ethnographic research took place in a peri-urban district, Wakiso, in Uganda between May 2018 and March 2021. This included a medicine survey at 115 small- and medium-scale pig and poultry farms, 18 weeks of participant observation at six farms, 34 in-depth interviews with farmers and others in the local livestock sector, four group discussions with 38 farmers and 7 veterinary officers, and analysis of archival, media and policy documents. Wide-scale adoption of quick farming was found, an entrepreneurial phenomenon that sees Ugandans raising ‘exotic’ livestock with imported methods and measures for production, including antibiotics for immediate therapy, prevention of infections and to promote production and protection of livelihoods. This assemblage – a promissory assemblage of the peri-urban – reinforced precarity against which antibiotics formed a potential layer of protection. The paper argues that to address antibiotic use as a driver of AMR is to address precarity as a driver of antibiotic use. Reduced reliance on antibiotics required a level of biosecurity and economies of scale in purchasing insurance that appeared affordable only by larger-scale commercial producers. This study illustrates the risks – to finances, development and health – of expanding an entrepreneurial model of protein production in populations vulnerable to climate, infection and market dynamics.

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Pharmaceuticalised livelihoods: antibiotics and the rise of ‘Quick Farming’ in peri-urban Uganda

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“…, 2020). This debate expands the scope of ANT to explore issues related, for example, to the anthropology of writing (Pontille and Jérôme, 2020), gender (Johnson, 2020), artistic practices (Halsall, 2020), urban studies (Färber, 2020), Southern sociologies (Rosa and Marcelo, 2020), global health care (Beisel, 2020), environmental damage (Hetherington, 2020), urban activism (Criado and Rodríguez-Giralt, 2020), relational history and ANTi-History (Durepos and Mills, 2017), among several other contemporary themes. ANT can be understood, in this proposal, as an intellectual project that is always in the making, always being sorted out, being a continuous production of prototypes that are partially shattered, opening more questions and requiring more prototypes (Corsín Jiménez, 2014).…”

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Actor-network theory: methodological issues in practice

Bignetti

Souza

Petrini

2023

QROM

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PurposeThis study demonstrates a practical use of Actor-Network Theory (ANT), showing methodological, predictive and unforeseen issues that emerged during the data collection and analysis phases and how they were addressed during the development of this research.Design/methodology/approachBased on the research of reapplication of a “tecnologia social” (TS) of entrepreneurial education, this article explores the author’s reflections on the adoption of ANT as a theoretical-methodological approach, highlighting the practical implications of a social material theory during fieldwork.FindingsThe adoption of ANT places the researcher in front of methodological issues not always foreseen in the research design. Four moments to a practical path through the engagement of ANT agency are highlighted: the network of actors, monitoring of actors, interpretation of data collected and writing results. These moments correspond to methodological issues that the authors faced during the practical journey of the research. At each moment, the challenge aroused is discussed and the methodological choice chosen to address the issue is presented.Originality/valueThe engagement with ANT has enormous potential in the study of management and organizations phenomenon, but its methodological implications in practice are still challenging. The authors seek to share this investigation and engagement in ANT so that other researchers have a reference and a starting point to employ and engage in this theoretical-methodological lens. Thus, it may be possible to anticipate certain difficulties in future research designs and to glimpse at potential developments and paths that the research may lead.

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“…Infrastructures are temporal phenomena in their own right (Star and Ruhleder 1996;Star 1999): they have a history and a future (Anand, Gupta, and Appel 2018). As 'promissory assemblages' (Färber 2019) they are accompanied by visions of a better and brighter future which becomes especially apparent in the case of infrastructures that were never built or finished (Carse and Kneas 2019). Their temporality is also evident in the work needed to keep infrastructures operational and updated, to deal with legacies and different kinds of knowledge and expertise (see the work of IT engineers to design navigation software; Bialski in this issue).…”

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On time: temporal and normative orderings of mobilities

2020

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This special issue is about the ways in which mobilities, as they are made and lived, tamper with a multiplicity of entwined normative and temporal orderings. Questions concerning the entwinement of temporal and normative orderings are not only a challenge for social theory. Mobilities, notably, make the intricate multiplicity of normative and temporal orderings a palpable, everyday issue: Distant spheres have to be linked, gaps to be bridged, connections forged, groups coordinated, timelines met, processes aligned etc. Serving flexibility, safety, synchronization and efficiency, contemporary mobilities involve diverse timings and commitments. This special issue, then, examines how multiple normative and temporal orderings unfold in practice, how they overlap and interfere, support and challenge one another. The multiple orderings that characterize today's mobilities are typically coordinated by means of infrastructure -sequences, breaks and buffers, brackets, borders and walls -in ways that we describe as co-existence, conflict, containment, and collation.

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How does ANT help us to rethink the city and its promises?

Cited by 11 publications

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Pharmaceuticalised livelihoods: antibiotics and the rise of ‘Quick Farming’ in peri-urban Uganda

Pharmaceuticalised livelihoods: antibiotics and the rise of ‘Quick Farming’ in peri-urban Uganda

Actor-network theory: methodological issues in practice

On time: temporal and normative orderings of mobilities

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