Sarah S Lochlann Jain
Biographic Data
| ID | 138508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah S Lochlann Jain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah S Lochlann |
| FAMILY NAME | Jain |
| SIGNATURE | JAIN S S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University, CA, |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Value to Suffering
A Value to Suffering Sarah S. Lochlann Jain (bio) Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America. By Rebecca M. Herzig. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 194 pages. $39.95 (cloth). $23.95 (paper). Rebecca Herzig's Suffering for Science offers a carefully argued analysis of how nineteenth-century scientists made abstract notions of suffering and truth matter in the practice of experimentation. This sparklingly ori…
Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States
Dangerous Instrumentality: The Bystander as Subject in Automobility
The automobile has been rendered invisible as a designed object that injures not only its consumers but other users of the street. This blind spot in how liability has been distributed in crash injuries has had three primary effects. First, it has resulted in a material distribution of goods in which the legal liability of automobile design as a cause of injury has been minimized. Second, it has determined how goods such as public space have been…
Come Up to the Kool Taste: African American Upward Mobility and the Semiotics of Smoking Menthols
Sarah S. Lochlann Jain is an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Stanford University. Recent publications include "Urban Errands: The Meaning of Mobility" (Journal of Consumer Culture,November 2002). Currently she is writing a book on the problem of injury,product design, and social inequality in the United States
Urban Errands: The means of mobility
Premising that both mobility and technology are co-constituted by gender, this article analyzes, through two day-long in situ interviews, the activities of two American women, one in Portland and the other in Manhattan. The author examines how mobility as a social and material system undergirds the use of new technologies such as cell phones. Furthermore, the article examines how possibilities for civic life circulate among these aspects of envir…
Mysterious Delicacies and Ambiguous Agents: Lennart Nilsson in National Geographic
Configurations - Volume 6, Number 3, Fall 1998
Dangerous Instrumentality: The Bystander as Subject in Automobility
The automobile has been rendered invisible as a designed object that injures not only its consumers but other users of the street. This blind spot in how liability has been distributed in crash injuries has had three primary effects. First, it has resulted in a material distribution of goods in which the legal liability of automobile design as a cause of injury has been minimized. Second, it has determined how goods such as public space have been…
Urban Errands: The means of mobility
Premising that both mobility and technology are co-constituted by gender, this article analyzes, through two day-long in situ interviews, the activities of two American women, one in Portland and the other in Manhattan. The author examines how mobility as a social and material system undergirds the use of new technologies such as cell phones. Furthermore, the article examines how possibilities for civic life circulate among these aspects of envir…
Come Up to the Kool Taste: African American Upward Mobility and the Semiotics of Smoking Menthols
Sarah S. Lochlann Jain is an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Stanford University. Recent publications include "Urban Errands: The Meaning of Mobility" (Journal of Consumer Culture,November 2002). Currently she is writing a book on the problem of injury,product design, and social inequality in the United States
Mysterious Delicacies and Ambiguous Agents: Lennart Nilsson in National Geographic
Configurations - Volume 6, Number 3, Fall 1998
Mysterious Delicacies and Ambiguous Agents: Lennart Nilsson in National Geographic
Configurations - Volume 6, Number 3, Fall 1998
Urban Errands: The means of mobility
Premising that both mobility and technology are co-constituted by gender, this article analyzes, through two day-long in situ interviews, the activities of two American women, one in Portland and the other in Manhattan. The author examines how mobility as a social and material system undergirds the use of new technologies such as cell phones. Furthermore, the article examines how possibilities for civic life circulate among these aspects of envir…
Come Up to the Kool Taste: African American Upward Mobility and the Semiotics of Smoking Menthols
Sarah S. Lochlann Jain is an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Stanford University. Recent publications include "Urban Errands: The Meaning of Mobility" (Journal of Consumer Culture,November 2002). Currently she is writing a book on the problem of injury,product design, and social inequality in the United States
Dangerous Instrumentality: The Bystander as Subject in Automobility
The automobile has been rendered invisible as a designed object that injures not only its consumers but other users of the street. This blind spot in how liability has been distributed in crash injuries has had three primary effects. First, it has resulted in a material distribution of goods in which the legal liability of automobile design as a cause of injury has been minimized. Second, it has determined how goods such as public space have been…
Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States
A Value to Suffering
A Value to Suffering Sarah S. Lochlann Jain (bio) Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America. By Rebecca M. Herzig. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 194 pages. $39.95 (cloth). $23.95 (paper). Rebecca Herzig's Suffering for Science offers a carefully argued analysis of how nineteenth-century scientists made abstract notions of suffering and truth matter in the practice of experimentation. This sparklingly ori…
Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)