Bauer
Biographic Data
| ID | 39262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bauer |
| FAMILY NAME | Bauer |
| SIGNATURE | BAUER |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5760-5965 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Data infrastructures, international organizations, and the politics of amendment
Data infrastructures are becoming increasingly central in “evidence-based” and “data-driven” policymaking at the international level, but the production and use of data in governance varies between different institutions and settings. This article examines closely the relations between data production and use over time in two international organizations and their efforts to deal with emissions to air—the International Maritime Organization and th…
Birds Have Procedures Too
This article examines how bird movements take part in shaping both local airport operations and global air traffic infrastructure. Drawing on archival sources, observations, and visual materials, we examine different layers and regimes of knowledge production on avian migration in and around the global air traffic hub Frankfurt Airport, especially in bird strike prevention. By inquiring into the airspace and ground procedures of both birds and hu…
Seeing Like a Model Fish
Digital models have become key sites of biological practice and science policy. This paper examines efforts to craft a digital salmon model for metabolic research. It traces the data configurations of feed, food, and health in Norway's bioeconomy aspirations-from cell culture studies in the lab to an integrated digital repository and public health nutrition trials in schools. A response to policy calls for more sustainable aquaculture, digital mo…
Extractions
This special issue invites reflection on digital forms of resource extractivism, through thinking-with microbes, fish, smart energy, and human bodies. We examine the confluence of infrastructure building, public good enactment, and nature datafication to account for novel forms of resource economies. The articles in this collection empirically investigate the various ways in which nature is turned into resource in laboratory and experimental site…
«Dette nummeret vil følge deg gjennom livet ditt»
Hvilke betingelser gir digitaliseringen for individuell selvråderett? Dette er et viktig og aktuelt diskusjonstema. Det vi kan kalle «datapolitikk», er en arena der statlige velferdsordninger møter den globale plattformkapitalismen. Denne arenaen er full av uforløste spenninger der spørsmålet om digital infrastruktur er av stor betydning. Dette er gjennomgangstemaet i denne artikkelen, som tar for seg to slike spenningsfelt: befolkningsregistre i…
Retrofitting towards a greener marine shipping future
The reduction of greenhouse gas emissions has entered regulatory agendas in shipping. In Norway, a debate has been ongoing for over a decade about whether liquefied natural gas (LNG) ship fuel enables or impedes the transition to a greener future for shipping. This paper explores the assembling of ship fuel before and after the introduction of a controversial carbon tax on LNG. It reconstructs how changes in the regulatory apparatus prompted the …
Indexing, Coding, Scoring
Epidemiological data work is a key site to study the configurations of health knowledges and politics. In this article, I ask how new ‘big data’ approaches and datafication in society are about to reshape orderings related to technologies, health, and the body, as well as epidemiological research itself. Diffracting practices with data contributes to our understanding of how data, numbers, and bodies fold into each other in the era of digitalizat…
Encounters in Borderlands
Focusing on a global hub of aviation, Frankfurt Airport, this essay examines encounters between animals and technology in airport operation. In order to understand how airport practices constantly negotiate the borders with local environments or even produce new ones, we draw on Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of “borderlands.” Extending this notion from human to nonhuman inhabitants and passengers of airports opens up for novel possibilities to appreh…
Beyond the Nuclear Epicenter
This contribution describes configurations of knowledge and secrecy in scientific research into health effects of nuclear testing at Semipalatinsk. Studies on health effects did not just begin with the post‐Soviet era, but were conducted in the USSR from the late 1950s onwards as part of Cold War science and technology. In order to carve out the changing politics that have configured and reconfigured radiation science in the Semipalatinsk region,…
Datafication and accountability in public health
In recent years and across many nations, public health has become subject to forms of governance that are said to be aimed at establishing accountability. In this introduction to a special issue, From Person to Population and Back: Exploring Accountability in Public Health , we suggest opening up accountability assemblages by asking a series of ostensibly simple questions that inevitably yield complicated answers: What is counted? What counts? An…
Following the algorithm
Epidemiological risk scores are calculative devices that mediate and enact versions of accountability in public health and preventive medicine. This article focuses on practices of accountability by following a cardiovascular risk score widely used in medical counselling in Germany. We follow the risk score in the making, in action, and in circulation to explore how the score performs in doctor-patient relations, how it recombines epidemiological…
Population genetics, cybernetics of difference, and pasts in the present
This article is about ‘genogeographic’ maps produced by late-Soviet geneticists and published during post-Soviet time. It focuses on the visual and numerical techniques scientists used to project genetic data onto geographic space. Rather than discussing their representational character, I follow these visuals as ‘folded objects’, describing the layering and realigning of measurements and temporalities as well as the shifts in the practices and m…
Mutations in Soviet public health science
Virtual Geographies of Belonging
This article explores human genetic diversity research east of what was the iron curtain. It follows the technique of "genogeographic mapping" back to its early Soviet origins and up to the post-Soviet era. Bringing together the history of genogeographic mapping and genealogies of "nationality" and "race" in the USSR, I discuss how populations and belonging were enacted in late Soviet biological anthropology and human genetics. While genogeograph…
From Administrative Infrastructure to Biomedical Resource
ArgumentSince the 1970s, Danish population registries were increasingly used for research purposes, in particular in the health sciences. Linked with a large number of disease registries, these data infrastructures became laboratories for the development of both information technology and epidemiological studies. Denmark's system of population registries had been centralized in 1924 and was further automated in the 1960s, with individual identifi…
Her Excellency
Modeling Population Health
Risk reasoning has become the common-sense mode of knowledge production in the health sciences. Risk assessment techniques of modern epidemiology also co-shape the ways genomic data are translated into population health. Risk computations (e.g., in preventive medicine, clinical decision-support software, or web-based self-tests), loop results from epidemiological studies back into everyday life. Drawing from observations at various European resea…
Kommentar
Distributed Agency in Experimental Practice: Moving from Epistemology to Multiple Ontologies (Commentary). Food and feeding practices are hybrids that cut across nature/culture divides. Approaches of material semiotics and multiple ontologies offer new tools to move beyond nature/culture binaries and to historicize everyday experimental practices. Exploring distributed agency in feeding practices of experimental animals brings to the fore the hyb…
Cakes und Candies – Zur Geschichte der Ernährung von Versuchstieren
Cakes and Candies: Historicizing the Feeding Practices of Experimental Animals. This special issue explores the history of experimental animals by studying the history of their feeding practices and nutritional regimes. Revisiting the literature of current historiographies of animals and drawing on new integrative approaches in the history of science, science and technology studies, and food history, we outline how historical ontologies and a pra…
Autorinnen und Autoren
Nutrigenomik. Technowissenschaftliches Fine-Tuning von Nahrung und Körper
Observing the Others, Watching Over Oneself
This article explores two instances of medical surveillance that illustrate post-panoptic views of the body in biomedicine, from the patient to the population. Techniques of surveillance and monitoring are part of medical diagnostics, epidemiological studies, aetiologic research, health care management; they also co-shape individual engagements with illness. In medicine, surveillance data come as digital anatomies for educational purposes and cli…
Mining data, gathering variables and recombining information
Serving Communities
Datafication and accountability in public health
In recent years and across many nations, public health has become subject to forms of governance that are said to be aimed at establishing accountability. In this introduction to a special issue, From Person to Population and Back: Exploring Accountability in Public Health , we suggest opening up accountability assemblages by asking a series of ostensibly simple questions that inevitably yield complicated answers: What is counted? What counts? An…
Modeling Population Health
Risk reasoning has become the common-sense mode of knowledge production in the health sciences. Risk assessment techniques of modern epidemiology also co-shape the ways genomic data are translated into population health. Risk computations (e.g., in preventive medicine, clinical decision-support software, or web-based self-tests), loop results from epidemiological studies back into everyday life. Drawing from observations at various European resea…
Following the algorithm
Epidemiological risk scores are calculative devices that mediate and enact versions of accountability in public health and preventive medicine. This article focuses on practices of accountability by following a cardiovascular risk score widely used in medical counselling in Germany. We follow the risk score in the making, in action, and in circulation to explore how the score performs in doctor-patient relations, how it recombines epidemiological…
Her Excellency
Mining data, gathering variables and recombining information
From Administrative Infrastructure to Biomedical Resource
ArgumentSince the 1970s, Danish population registries were increasingly used for research purposes, in particular in the health sciences. Linked with a large number of disease registries, these data infrastructures became laboratories for the development of both information technology and epidemiological studies. Denmark's system of population registries had been centralized in 1924 and was further automated in the 1960s, with individual identifi…
Observing the Others, Watching Over Oneself
This article explores two instances of medical surveillance that illustrate post-panoptic views of the body in biomedicine, from the patient to the population. Techniques of surveillance and monitoring are part of medical diagnostics, epidemiological studies, aetiologic research, health care management; they also co-shape individual engagements with illness. In medicine, surveillance data come as digital anatomies for educational purposes and cli…
Retrofitting towards a greener marine shipping future
The reduction of greenhouse gas emissions has entered regulatory agendas in shipping. In Norway, a debate has been ongoing for over a decade about whether liquefied natural gas (LNG) ship fuel enables or impedes the transition to a greener future for shipping. This paper explores the assembling of ship fuel before and after the introduction of a controversial carbon tax on LNG. It reconstructs how changes in the regulatory apparatus prompted the …
Virtual Geographies of Belonging
This article explores human genetic diversity research east of what was the iron curtain. It follows the technique of "genogeographic mapping" back to its early Soviet origins and up to the post-Soviet era. Bringing together the history of genogeographic mapping and genealogies of "nationality" and "race" in the USSR, I discuss how populations and belonging were enacted in late Soviet biological anthropology and human genetics. While genogeograph…
Birds Have Procedures Too
This article examines how bird movements take part in shaping both local airport operations and global air traffic infrastructure. Drawing on archival sources, observations, and visual materials, we examine different layers and regimes of knowledge production on avian migration in and around the global air traffic hub Frankfurt Airport, especially in bird strike prevention. By inquiring into the airspace and ground procedures of both birds and hu…
Population genetics, cybernetics of difference, and pasts in the present
This article is about ‘genogeographic’ maps produced by late-Soviet geneticists and published during post-Soviet time. It focuses on the visual and numerical techniques scientists used to project genetic data onto geographic space. Rather than discussing their representational character, I follow these visuals as ‘folded objects’, describing the layering and realigning of measurements and temporalities as well as the shifts in the practices and m…
Mutations in Soviet public health science
Serving Communities
Mining data, gathering variables and recombining information
Observing the Others, Watching Over Oneself
This article explores two instances of medical surveillance that illustrate post-panoptic views of the body in biomedicine, from the patient to the population. Techniques of surveillance and monitoring are part of medical diagnostics, epidemiological studies, aetiologic research, health care management; they also co-shape individual engagements with illness. In medicine, surveillance data come as digital anatomies for educational purposes and cli…
Autorinnen und Autoren
Nutrigenomik. Technowissenschaftliches Fine-Tuning von Nahrung und Körper
Kommentar
Distributed Agency in Experimental Practice: Moving from Epistemology to Multiple Ontologies (Commentary). Food and feeding practices are hybrids that cut across nature/culture divides. Approaches of material semiotics and multiple ontologies offer new tools to move beyond nature/culture binaries and to historicize everyday experimental practices. Exploring distributed agency in feeding practices of experimental animals brings to the fore the hyb…
Cakes und Candies – Zur Geschichte der Ernährung von Versuchstieren
Cakes and Candies: Historicizing the Feeding Practices of Experimental Animals. This special issue explores the history of experimental animals by studying the history of their feeding practices and nutritional regimes. Revisiting the literature of current historiographies of animals and drawing on new integrative approaches in the history of science, science and technology studies, and food history, we outline how historical ontologies and a pra…
Her Excellency
Modeling Population Health
Risk reasoning has become the common-sense mode of knowledge production in the health sciences. Risk assessment techniques of modern epidemiology also co-shape the ways genomic data are translated into population health. Risk computations (e.g., in preventive medicine, clinical decision-support software, or web-based self-tests), loop results from epidemiological studies back into everyday life. Drawing from observations at various European resea…
Mutations in Soviet public health science
Virtual Geographies of Belonging
This article explores human genetic diversity research east of what was the iron curtain. It follows the technique of "genogeographic mapping" back to its early Soviet origins and up to the post-Soviet era. Bringing together the history of genogeographic mapping and genealogies of "nationality" and "race" in the USSR, I discuss how populations and belonging were enacted in late Soviet biological anthropology and human genetics. While genogeograph…
From Administrative Infrastructure to Biomedical Resource
ArgumentSince the 1970s, Danish population registries were increasingly used for research purposes, in particular in the health sciences. Linked with a large number of disease registries, these data infrastructures became laboratories for the development of both information technology and epidemiological studies. Denmark's system of population registries had been centralized in 1924 and was further automated in the 1960s, with individual identifi…
Population genetics, cybernetics of difference, and pasts in the present
This article is about ‘genogeographic’ maps produced by late-Soviet geneticists and published during post-Soviet time. It focuses on the visual and numerical techniques scientists used to project genetic data onto geographic space. Rather than discussing their representational character, I follow these visuals as ‘folded objects’, describing the layering and realigning of measurements and temporalities as well as the shifts in the practices and m…
Indexing, Coding, Scoring
Epidemiological data work is a key site to study the configurations of health knowledges and politics. In this article, I ask how new ‘big data’ approaches and datafication in society are about to reshape orderings related to technologies, health, and the body, as well as epidemiological research itself. Diffracting practices with data contributes to our understanding of how data, numbers, and bodies fold into each other in the era of digitalizat…
Encounters in Borderlands
Focusing on a global hub of aviation, Frankfurt Airport, this essay examines encounters between animals and technology in airport operation. In order to understand how airport practices constantly negotiate the borders with local environments or even produce new ones, we draw on Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of “borderlands.” Extending this notion from human to nonhuman inhabitants and passengers of airports opens up for novel possibilities to appreh…
Beyond the Nuclear Epicenter
This contribution describes configurations of knowledge and secrecy in scientific research into health effects of nuclear testing at Semipalatinsk. Studies on health effects did not just begin with the post‐Soviet era, but were conducted in the USSR from the late 1950s onwards as part of Cold War science and technology. In order to carve out the changing politics that have configured and reconfigured radiation science in the Semipalatinsk region,…
Datafication and accountability in public health
In recent years and across many nations, public health has become subject to forms of governance that are said to be aimed at establishing accountability. In this introduction to a special issue, From Person to Population and Back: Exploring Accountability in Public Health , we suggest opening up accountability assemblages by asking a series of ostensibly simple questions that inevitably yield complicated answers: What is counted? What counts? An…
Following the algorithm
Epidemiological risk scores are calculative devices that mediate and enact versions of accountability in public health and preventive medicine. This article focuses on practices of accountability by following a cardiovascular risk score widely used in medical counselling in Germany. We follow the risk score in the making, in action, and in circulation to explore how the score performs in doctor-patient relations, how it recombines epidemiological…
«Dette nummeret vil følge deg gjennom livet ditt»
Hvilke betingelser gir digitaliseringen for individuell selvråderett? Dette er et viktig og aktuelt diskusjonstema. Det vi kan kalle «datapolitikk», er en arena der statlige velferdsordninger møter den globale plattformkapitalismen. Denne arenaen er full av uforløste spenninger der spørsmålet om digital infrastruktur er av stor betydning. Dette er gjennomgangstemaet i denne artikkelen, som tar for seg to slike spenningsfelt: befolkningsregistre i…
Retrofitting towards a greener marine shipping future
The reduction of greenhouse gas emissions has entered regulatory agendas in shipping. In Norway, a debate has been ongoing for over a decade about whether liquefied natural gas (LNG) ship fuel enables or impedes the transition to a greener future for shipping. This paper explores the assembling of ship fuel before and after the introduction of a controversial carbon tax on LNG. It reconstructs how changes in the regulatory apparatus prompted the …
Seeing Like a Model Fish
Digital models have become key sites of biological practice and science policy. This paper examines efforts to craft a digital salmon model for metabolic research. It traces the data configurations of feed, food, and health in Norway's bioeconomy aspirations-from cell culture studies in the lab to an integrated digital repository and public health nutrition trials in schools. A response to policy calls for more sustainable aquaculture, digital mo…
Extractions
This special issue invites reflection on digital forms of resource extractivism, through thinking-with microbes, fish, smart energy, and human bodies. We examine the confluence of infrastructure building, public good enactment, and nature datafication to account for novel forms of resource economies. The articles in this collection empirically investigate the various ways in which nature is turned into resource in laboratory and experimental site…
Data infrastructures, international organizations, and the politics of amendment
Data infrastructures are becoming increasingly central in “evidence-based” and “data-driven” policymaking at the international level, but the production and use of data in governance varies between different institutions and settings. This article examines closely the relations between data production and use over time in two international organizations and their efforts to deal with emissions to air—the International Maritime Organization and th…
Birds Have Procedures Too
This article examines how bird movements take part in shaping both local airport operations and global air traffic infrastructure. Drawing on archival sources, observations, and visual materials, we examine different layers and regimes of knowledge production on avian migration in and around the global air traffic hub Frankfurt Airport, especially in bird strike prevention. By inquiring into the airspace and ground procedures of both birds and hu…
Computer Science (13 works) · Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Population (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Race, Genetics, and Society (6 works) · Data science (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)