2020, ISBN: 9781478011057

RADIANT INFRASTRUCTURES considers the environmental effects of cell phone towers and nuclear reactors-and, in particular, how media shapes the environmental controversies that are activat… More...

RADIANT INFRASTRUCTURES considers the environmental effects of cell phone towers and nuclear reactors-and, in particular, how media shapes the environmental controversies that are activated by these infrastructures. In India, cell phone towers and nuclear reactors appear as symbols of development, yet remain fraught with controversy over the risk of potentially carcinogenic radiation. In contrast to the highly visible physical infrastructures that support cell service and nuclear reactors, radiation itself is invisible, and activists, corporations, and government actors alike have relied on mediated narratives of radiation to shape public opinion about it. Rahul Mukherjee shows how mediation creates nuclear imaginaries: newspaper, television, Bollywood,and radio representations of environmental controversies produce affective and speculative work to frame and shape how Indian publics understand the relationships between modernity, development, radiation, and nuclear power. In the first two chapters Mukherjee lays out the context for debates around cell antenna radiation-sparked by newspaper reports of potentially carcinogenic radiation in Mumbai-and nuclear reactor safety-catalyzed by the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Both of these controversies called environmental publics into action, including various stakeholders who use and are influenced by media in diverse ways. The following chapter tracks the ways in which cellular operators and nuclear administrators attempt to contain signal emissions and radioactive nuclides, while simultaneously working to contain information about radiation spills and potential health risks associated with radiation. In contrast, mediated testimonies of cancer patients living or working close to radiant infrastructures demonstrate how feelings and bodily sensations can shape environmental publics. Social movements around infrastructure development in contemporary India were shaped by class and region-while most cell antenna campaign ...|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/d8a7c743/radiant-infrastructures-rahul-mukherjee-9781478007623.jpg|9781478007623|Radiant Infrastructures : Hardback : Duke University Press : 9781478007623 : 27 Mar 2020 : Rahul Mukherjee explores how the media coverage of and debates about nuclear power plants and cellular phone antennas in India frames and sustains environmental ...|new|1|1|10|80|0|GBP|Rahul Mukherjee|Duke University Press|27 Mar 2020|Media studies 9781478011057|Virulent Zones|18.75|https://wordery.com/virulent-zones-lyle-fearnley-9781478011057|VIRULENT ZONES is an ethnography of the search for the origins of influenza pandemics in rural China. In the early 1980s, Hong-Kong based virologists pinpointed southern China as an origin for influenza pandemics due to the region's entanglements of farming practices, animal husbandry, and wet-rice paddy landscapes. One example is Poyang Lake, which is not only China's largest freshwater lake, but a wintering site for hundreds of thousands of migratory birds and the home of large-scale duck farming. According to popular imaginings of pandemic epicenters, scientists go to a remote place and find a discrete origin for a virus, which can then be transported back into a laboratory for further research. But for anthropologist Lyle Fearnley, Poyang Lake exemplifies the importance of what scientists call the non-virological, or other factors outside of the virus that are crucial to understanding the virus' spread, such as migration of wildlife species, rapid population growth, and an increase in livestock production. When taken into consideration, non-virological factors also affect the trajectory of research itself; rather than the epicenter functioning as a place from which a virus is extracted and taken to a laboratory, the epicenter, in this case Poyang Lake, becomes the site from which research is conducted. For Fearnley, this shift is crucial, as Poyang Lake serves as an example of a new form of scientific displacement, which is usually understood as the process through which research done in a laboratory is "displaced" into the real word-and vice versa-through carefully controlled experiments. But at Poyang Lake, where scientists and farmers share one habitat, Fearnley argues that elements of research are continually reproduced and changed, displacing scientific inquiry into new directions. And whereas in the traditional laboratory setting, scientific displacement from the field to the lab renders a power dynamic in which the researcher is more knowledgeable th ... Books<

2020, ISBN: 9781478011057

THE MEANING OF SOUL discusses Black resilience and innovation through soul music and soul logic. Emily Lordi analyzes soul music and musicians from the 1960s, the 1970s, and after, bridgi… More...

THE MEANING OF SOUL discusses Black resilience and innovation through soul music and soul logic. Emily Lordi analyzes soul music and musicians from the 1960s, the 1970s, and after, bridging the different valences of soul as a way of moving through the world. The book encompasses soul's racial-political meanings while being sensitive to the details of the music and small details that shaped artists' lives and their relationship to soul. Chapter 1 is about the relationship of soul and jazz music, tracing soul's emergence in the late 1960s as a mode that underscored the redemptive possibilities of Black suffering. Lordi describes how soul music channeled the styles and techniques of the church into secular lyrical content, while soul discourse simultaneously drafted religious logic into a secular faith in collective redemption. Chapter 2 is about how soul artists transformed expressive deprivation into musical abundance by crafting innovative covers of other artists' songs. Landmark covers of this type propelled many soul artists, including Nina Simone and Aretha Franklin, into the spotlight, their displacement turned into stylized survivorship. In chapter 3, Lordi unpacks jazz improvisation and soul adlibs as performing a hard-won achievement of self-trust, trusting oneself enough to break with destructive or stifling conventions. Chapter 4 extends inquiry into the performative relationships with self and others discussed in the previous chapter, by exploring a deeper sense of interiority and a broader scope of sociality as enacted through falsetto vocals. Lordi talks about soul falsettos as used by Ann Peebles, Al Green, Isaac Hayes, and Minnie Riperton, and the ways falsetto signifies different things contextually. Lordi ends the book with a chapter on false endings - bringing the song to a close before striking it up again - symbolizing soul's message of Black group resilience, not a matter of stasis, but of change. The false ending signals the endurance neces ...|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/b48dd6e4/the-meaning-of-soul-emily-j-lordi-9781478009597.jpg|9781478009597|The Meaning of Soul : Paperback : Duke University Press : 9781478009597 : 14 Aug 2020 : Examining the work of Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Solange Knowles, Flying Lotus, and others, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of soul, showing how it ...|new|1|1|2|20.99|0|GBP|Emily J. Lordi|Duke University Press|14 Aug 2020|Soul & R 'n' B 9781478011057|Virulent Zones|19.99|https://wordery.com/virulent-zones-lyle-fearnley-9781478011057|VIRULENT ZONES is an ethnography of the search for the origins of influenza pandemics in rural China. In the early 1980s, Hong-Kong based virologists pinpointed southern China as an origin for influenza pandemics due to the region's entanglements of farming practices, animal husbandry, and wet-rice paddy landscapes. One example is Poyang Lake, which is not only China's largest freshwater lake, but a wintering site for hundreds of thousands of migratory birds and the home of large-scale duck farming. According to popular imaginings of pandemic epicenters, scientists go to a remote place and find a discrete origin for a virus, which can then be transported back into a laboratory for further research. But for anthropologist Lyle Fearnley, Poyang Lake exemplifies the importance of what scientists call the non-virological, or other factors outside of the virus that are crucial to understanding the virus' spread, such as migration of wildlife species, rapid population growth, and an increase in livestock production. When taken into consideration, non-virological factors also affect the trajectory of research itself; rather than the epicenter functioning as a place from which a virus is extracted and taken to a laboratory, the epicenter, in this case Poyang Lake, becomes the site from which research is conducted. For Fearnley, this shift is crucial, as Poyang Lake serves as an example of a new form of scientific displacement, which is usually understood as the process through which research done in a laboratory is "displaced" into the real word-and vice versa-through carefully controlled experiments. But at Poyang Lake, where scientists and farmers share one habitat, Fearnley argues that elements of research are continually reproduced and changed, displacing scientific inquiry into new directions. And whereas in the traditional laboratory setting, scientific displacement from the field to the lab renders a power dynamic in which the researcher is more knowledgeable th ... Books<

2020, ISBN: 147801105X

[EAN: 9781478011057], Neubuch, [PU: Duke University Press], nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Scientists have identified southern China as a likely epicenter… More...

[EAN: 9781478011057], Neubuch, [PU: Duke University Press], nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Scientists have identified southern China as a likely epicenter for viral pandemics, a place where new viruses emerge out of intensively farmed landscapes and human--animal interactions. In Virulent Zones, Lyle Fearnley documents the global plans to stop the next influenza pandemic at its source, accompanying virologists and veterinarians as they track lethal viruses to China's largest freshwater lake, Poyang Lake. Revealing how scientific research and expert agency operate outside the laboratory, he shows that the search for origins is less a linear process of discovery than a constant displacement toward new questions about cause and context. As scientists strive to understand the environments from which the influenza virus emerges, the unexpected scale of duck farming systems and unusual practices such as breeding wild geese unsettle research objects, push scientific inquiry in new directions, and throw expert authority into question. Drawing on fieldwork with global health scientists, state-employed veterinarians, and poultry farmers in Beijing and at Poyang Lake, Fearnley situates the production of ecological facts about disease emergence inside the shifting cultural landscapes of agrarian change and the geopolitics of global health., Books<

ISBN: 9781478011057

Scientists have identified southern China as a likely epicenter for viral pandemics, a place where new viruses emerge out of intensively farmed landscapes and human—animal interactio… More...

Scientists have identified southern China as a likely epicenter for viral pandemics, a place where new viruses emerge out of intensively farmed landscapes and human—animal interactions. In Virulent Zones, Lyle Fearnley documents the global plans to stop the next influenza pandemic at its source, accompanying virologists and veterinarians as they track lethal viruses to China's largest freshwater lake, Poyang Lake. Revealing how scientific research and expert agency operate outside the laboratory, he shows that the search for origins is less a linear process of discovery than a constant displacement toward new questions about cause and context. As scientists strive to understand the environments from which the influenza virus emerges, the unexpected scale of duck farming systems and unusual practices such as breeding wild geese unsettle research objects, push scientific inquiry in new directions, and throw expert authority into question. Drawing on fieldwork with global health scientists, state-employed veterinarians, and poultry farmers in Beijing and at Poyang Lake, Fearnley situates the production of ecological facts about disease emergence inside the shifting cultural landscapes of agrarian change and the geopolitics of global health. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Social Sciences>Anthropology>Anthropology, Duke University Press Core >1<

ISBN: 9781478011057

Scientists have identified southern China as a likely epicenter for viral pandemics, a place where new viruses emerge out of intensively farmed landscapes and human--animal interactions. … More...

Scientists have identified southern China as a likely epicenter for viral pandemics, a place where new viruses emerge out of intensively farmed landscapes and human--animal interactions. In Virulent Zones, Lyle Fearnley documents the global plans to stop the next influenza pandemic at its source, accompanying virologists and veterinarians as they track lethal viruses to China's largest freshwater lake, Poyang Lake. Revealing how scientific research and expert agency operate outside the laboratory, he shows that the search for origins is less a linear process of discovery than a constant displacement toward new questions about cause and context. As scientists strive to understand the environments from which the influenza virus emerges, the unexpected scale of duck farming systems and unusual practices such as breeding wild geese unsettle research objects, push scientific inquiry in new directions, and throw expert authority into question. Drawing on fieldwork with global health scientists, state-employed veterinarians, and poultry farmers in Beijing and at Poyang Lake, Fearnley situates the production of ecological facts about disease emergence inside the shifting cultural landscapes of agrarian change and the geopolitics of global health. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Social Sciences>Anthropology>Anthropology, Duke University Press Core >1<