Syllabus for Roster(s):

  • 16F ANTH 5590-001 (CGAS)
In the UVaCollab course site:   16F ANTH 5590-001 (CGAS)

Course Description (for SIS)

What do rocket launches, genetic testing, marine biology, climate change, robots, social media, and nuclear energy have in common? They have all been studied by anthropologists interested in the social and cultural aspects of technoscience and how technoscience becomes integrated into people's lives. Readings for this course occupy the borderland between anthropology and STS (science and technology studies).  Rotating topics may include the cultural production of facts and other forms of scientific knowledge, digital matter, indigenous science, artificial intelligence, big data and surveillance, technologized bodies, biosecurity, climate science, infrastructure, scientific imagination, conservation technologies, genetics and cultural identity, the synthesis of "Nature," why scientific metaphors matter, and ethnographies of scientific practice.