James Merron
Biographic Data
| ID | 1583245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Merron |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Merron |
| SIGNATURE | MERRON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Basel |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9275-4082 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Electromagnetic economies of worth
In 2017, an old satellite dish in Ghana was repurposed into a radio telescope. While highly celebrated in public, complications surrounding this conversion resulted in criticism in the African astronomy community. While 'repurposing' has been optimistically embraced in recent Science and Technology Studies literature, we challenge 'repurposing's' seemingly natural alignment with the common good, defined here as the path towards technoscientific m…
Landscape Archives, Aerial Photography and Geomorphic Change along the Lower Orange River
Placing the Cosmic Background
James Merron’s essay reveals how the production of astronomical knowledge about the Universe bears the inscriptions of contemporary terrestrial life and local contestations from the surrounding environment
Left Button Picture, Right Button Bomb
In this paper, we argue that the relationship between nature conservation and warfare was and continues to be actualized through socio-technical relationships and shared infrastructures. We historicize “green militari zation”—defined as the use of military techniques, technologies and partnerships in the pursuit of conservation (Lunstrum 2014)—showing that the partnership between military and nature conservation in Southern Africa has a long and …
Indiscipline as Method
There is no unproblematic way to study things as “African”, yet an epistemologically situated approach based on concrete technological projects situated in Africa and their social and political implications offers an important account of the intersection of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and African Studies. We explore this perspective through the notion of “indiscipline” using the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope project (SKA) based in S…
Electromagnetic economies of worth
In 2017, an old satellite dish in Ghana was repurposed into a radio telescope. While highly celebrated in public, complications surrounding this conversion resulted in criticism in the African astronomy community. While 'repurposing' has been optimistically embraced in recent Science and Technology Studies literature, we challenge 'repurposing's' seemingly natural alignment with the common good, defined here as the path towards technoscientific m…
Left Button Picture, Right Button Bomb
In this paper, we argue that the relationship between nature conservation and warfare was and continues to be actualized through socio-technical relationships and shared infrastructures. We historicize “green militari zation”—defined as the use of military techniques, technologies and partnerships in the pursuit of conservation (Lunstrum 2014)—showing that the partnership between military and nature conservation in Southern Africa has a long and …
Indiscipline as Method
There is no unproblematic way to study things as “African”, yet an epistemologically situated approach based on concrete technological projects situated in Africa and their social and political implications offers an important account of the intersection of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and African Studies. We explore this perspective through the notion of “indiscipline” using the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope project (SKA) based in S…
Placing the Cosmic Background
James Merron’s essay reveals how the production of astronomical knowledge about the Universe bears the inscriptions of contemporary terrestrial life and local contestations from the surrounding environment
Landscape Archives, Aerial Photography and Geomorphic Change along the Lower Orange River
Electromagnetic economies of worth
In 2017, an old satellite dish in Ghana was repurposed into a radio telescope. While highly celebrated in public, complications surrounding this conversion resulted in criticism in the African astronomy community. While 'repurposing' has been optimistically embraced in recent Science and Technology Studies literature, we challenge 'repurposing's' seemingly natural alignment with the common good, defined here as the path towards technoscientific m…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Astronomy (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · History and Developments in Astronomy (2 works) · Observatory (2 works)