A Pollock
Biographic Data
| ID | 24496 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Pollock |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Pollock |
| SIGNATURE | POLLOCK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3112-2476 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
‘Wisdom, solidarity and investment from within’
Sovereignty and solidarity are at stake in efforts to establish local medical manufacturing on the African continent. Drawing on archival and published materials as well as key informant interviews, this article contrasts articulations from the immediate post-independence period with those of the post-Covid period. After laying out the shifting context from the New International Economic Order to neoliberalism, two key contrasts between the perio…
Catalyst Lead Editing as Creative Worldbuilding
In this piece for the 10th anniversary issue, one of Catalyst’s early lead editorial teams reflects on their experiences. A short collective introduction offers a metaphor of the journal as a garden that was inherited when it was already spring. Then, each of the trio in this lead editor team—Anne Pollock, Nassim Parvin, and Laura Foster—shares her reflections in turn, foregrounding different scales of the endeavor: cultivating authors, peer revi…
Careful Whisper, Heart Feminism
This Image & Text piece is a polyvocal account of Careful Whisper, an experimental installation at the Science Gallery London involving a re-engagement with an essay published in the inaugural issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, “Heart Feminism” (Pollock 2015). After an introduction that situates the project in the domain of art and STS, each of the project’s collaborators contributes a section to this paper: feminist STS scholar …
Our thanks to founding editor Professor Nikolas Rose
Arleen Marcia Tuchman. Diabetes
Journal Article Arleen Marcia Tuchman. Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease. Get access Arleen Marcia Tuchman. Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. xvii, 266. Cloth $25.00. Anne Pollock Anne Pollock King’s College London, UK Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 2, June 2023, Pag…
“A passion to change the landscape and drive a renaissance”
In global conversations about COVID-19 vaccine access, Africa has overwhelmingly been characterized as a site of lack. However, the successful reverse engineering of the Moderna vaccine by Afrigen at the mRNA Hub in Cape Town marks a more hopeful path forward. This paper introduces the mRNA Hub and puts it into context of broader decolonial aspirations for African futures in the face of rich countries' disregard. Highlighting ways in which Afrige…
Bleak Biopolitics and Abolitionist Aspirations
Unintended by Design
This paper revisits the term “unintended consequences,” drawing upon an illustrative vignette to show how it is used to dismiss vital ethical and political concerns. Tracing the term to its original introduction by Robert Merton and building on feminist technoscience analyses, we uncover and rethink its widespread usage in popular and scholarly discourses and practices of technology design
Lockdown texts
Interrogating Innovation
Synthesizing Hope
After Big Data Failed
When widespread polling failed to accurately predict the 2016 US presidential election, producers and consumers of data didn’t abandon faith in numbers. Instead, they have reconfigured their relationships with big data. Producers are formulating redemption narratives, blaming specific datasets or poor interpretation, and the broader reception looks similar. Seeking an explanation for Trump’s unexpected victory, news audiences are calling out fail…
Blood Sugar
Reviewed by: Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America by Anthony Ryan Hatch Anne Pollock Anthony Ryan Hatch. Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. xii + 166 pp. Ill. $25.00 (978-0-8166-9618-5). Blood Sugar is a highly readable account of the emergence and import of “metabolic syndrome,” a biomedical category of risk designed to capture the da…
Resisting Power, Retooling Justice
This special issue explores intersections of feminism, postcolonialism, and technoscience. The papers emerged out of a 2014 research seminar on Feminist Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies (STS) at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan. Through innovative engagement with rich empirical cases and theoretical trends in postcolonial theory, feminist theory, and STS, the papers trace local and global circulati…
Ethical engagement with technologies of minimal biopolitics
On the Suspended Sentences of the Scott Sisters
In December 2010, the governor of Mississippi suspended the dual life sentences of two African American sisters who had been imprisoned for sixteen years on an extraordinary condition: that Gladys Scott donate a kidney to her ailing sister Jamie Scott. The Scott Sisters' case is a highly unusual one, yet it is a revealing site for inquiry into US biopolitics more broadly. Close attention to the conditional release and its context demands a broade…
Coronary artery disease and the contours of pharmaceuticalization
Places of pharmaceutical knowledge-making
This article draws on ethnographic research at iThemba Pharmaceuticals, a small South African startup pharmaceutical company with an elite international scientific board. The word 'iThemba' is Zulu for 'hope', and so far drug discovery at the company has been essentially aspirational rather than actual. Yet this particular place provides an entry point for exploring how the location of the scientific knowledge component of pharmaceuticals--rather…
Organizational Choice (RLE
This book develops and applies a new approach to the study of the working group and indeed of productive enterprises more generally. Unlike similar studies, in this volume the human is related back to the technological, and it is the socio-technical system as a whole that is the object of study. The work reported in this book shows how alternative modes of work organization can exist for the same technology, giving the possibility of organization…
Medicating Race
Transforming the critique of Big Pharma
Treatment gap in depression
Purpose Since 2001 treatment of depression has been a main priority of the World Health Organisation (WHO) public health agenda. WHO policy reports, such as the World Health Report 2001, state that there is an unmet need of depression, referred to as the treatment gap. This report aims to explore how the treatment gap is defined and measured. Methods WHO policy documents were searched and a literature review using key terms; treatment gap and dep…
The Professional Guinea Pig
Reading Friedan
This article uses Betty Friedan's idiosyncratic invocations of heart disease in her work from the 1960s through the 1990s, as well as her autobiographical comments about it and her theory of the feminine mystique, to grapple with a feminist articulation of heart disease. Although this leading cause of death for women in industrialized countries has been peripheral to feminist health discourse and most women's preoccupations, heart disease played …
Complicating Power in High-Tech Reproduction
Organizational Choice (RLE
This book develops and applies a new approach to the study of the working group and indeed of productive enterprises more generally. Unlike similar studies, in this volume the human is related back to the technological, and it is the socio-technical system as a whole that is the object of study. The work reported in this book shows how alternative modes of work organization can exist for the same technology, giving the possibility of organization…
Resisting Power, Retooling Justice
This special issue explores intersections of feminism, postcolonialism, and technoscience. The papers emerged out of a 2014 research seminar on Feminist Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies (STS) at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan. Through innovative engagement with rich empirical cases and theoretical trends in postcolonial theory, feminist theory, and STS, the papers trace local and global circulati…
Places of pharmaceutical knowledge-making
This article draws on ethnographic research at iThemba Pharmaceuticals, a small South African startup pharmaceutical company with an elite international scientific board. The word 'iThemba' is Zulu for 'hope', and so far drug discovery at the company has been essentially aspirational rather than actual. Yet this particular place provides an entry point for exploring how the location of the scientific knowledge component of pharmaceuticals--rather…
On the Suspended Sentences of the Scott Sisters
In December 2010, the governor of Mississippi suspended the dual life sentences of two African American sisters who had been imprisoned for sixteen years on an extraordinary condition: that Gladys Scott donate a kidney to her ailing sister Jamie Scott. The Scott Sisters' case is a highly unusual one, yet it is a revealing site for inquiry into US biopolitics more broadly. Close attention to the conditional release and its context demands a broade…
Coronary artery disease and the contours of pharmaceuticalization
Perceptions of the Value of Quality Assessment in Scottish Higher Education
The 1992–93 session in Scottish universities saw the introduction of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's (SHEFC) statutory requirement to introduce quality assessments of teaching and learning. This paper looks at some of the issues that have arisen from the experience of staff at Napier University in terms of being assessed. It focuses on the issues that have arisen from the first and second round of visits to institutions. The key q…
Complicating Power in High-Tech Reproduction
Reading Friedan
This article uses Betty Friedan's idiosyncratic invocations of heart disease in her work from the 1960s through the 1990s, as well as her autobiographical comments about it and her theory of the feminine mystique, to grapple with a feminist articulation of heart disease. Although this leading cause of death for women in industrialized countries has been peripheral to feminist health discourse and most women's preoccupations, heart disease played …
Transforming the critique of Big Pharma
Treatment gap in depression
Purpose Since 2001 treatment of depression has been a main priority of the World Health Organisation (WHO) public health agenda. WHO policy reports, such as the World Health Report 2001, state that there is an unmet need of depression, referred to as the treatment gap. This report aims to explore how the treatment gap is defined and measured. Methods WHO policy documents were searched and a literature review using key terms; treatment gap and dep…
The Professional Guinea Pig
Medicating Race
Organizational Choice (RLE
This book develops and applies a new approach to the study of the working group and indeed of productive enterprises more generally. Unlike similar studies, in this volume the human is related back to the technological, and it is the socio-technical system as a whole that is the object of study. The work reported in this book shows how alternative modes of work organization can exist for the same technology, giving the possibility of organization…
Places of pharmaceutical knowledge-making
This article draws on ethnographic research at iThemba Pharmaceuticals, a small South African startup pharmaceutical company with an elite international scientific board. The word 'iThemba' is Zulu for 'hope', and so far drug discovery at the company has been essentially aspirational rather than actual. Yet this particular place provides an entry point for exploring how the location of the scientific knowledge component of pharmaceuticals--rather…
Ethical engagement with technologies of minimal biopolitics
On the Suspended Sentences of the Scott Sisters
In December 2010, the governor of Mississippi suspended the dual life sentences of two African American sisters who had been imprisoned for sixteen years on an extraordinary condition: that Gladys Scott donate a kidney to her ailing sister Jamie Scott. The Scott Sisters' case is a highly unusual one, yet it is a revealing site for inquiry into US biopolitics more broadly. Close attention to the conditional release and its context demands a broade…
Coronary artery disease and the contours of pharmaceuticalization
Resisting Power, Retooling Justice
This special issue explores intersections of feminism, postcolonialism, and technoscience. The papers emerged out of a 2014 research seminar on Feminist Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies (STS) at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan. Through innovative engagement with rich empirical cases and theoretical trends in postcolonial theory, feminist theory, and STS, the papers trace local and global circulati…
After Big Data Failed
When widespread polling failed to accurately predict the 2016 US presidential election, producers and consumers of data didn’t abandon faith in numbers. Instead, they have reconfigured their relationships with big data. Producers are formulating redemption narratives, blaming specific datasets or poor interpretation, and the broader reception looks similar. Seeking an explanation for Trump’s unexpected victory, news audiences are calling out fail…
Blood Sugar
Reviewed by: Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America by Anthony Ryan Hatch Anne Pollock Anthony Ryan Hatch. Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. xii + 166 pp. Ill. $25.00 (978-0-8166-9618-5). Blood Sugar is a highly readable account of the emergence and import of “metabolic syndrome,” a biomedical category of risk designed to capture the da…
Synthesizing Hope
Unintended by Design
This paper revisits the term “unintended consequences,” drawing upon an illustrative vignette to show how it is used to dismiss vital ethical and political concerns. Tracing the term to its original introduction by Robert Merton and building on feminist technoscience analyses, we uncover and rethink its widespread usage in popular and scholarly discourses and practices of technology design
Lockdown texts
Interrogating Innovation
Bleak Biopolitics and Abolitionist Aspirations
“A passion to change the landscape and drive a renaissance”
In global conversations about COVID-19 vaccine access, Africa has overwhelmingly been characterized as a site of lack. However, the successful reverse engineering of the Moderna vaccine by Afrigen at the mRNA Hub in Cape Town marks a more hopeful path forward. This paper introduces the mRNA Hub and puts it into context of broader decolonial aspirations for African futures in the face of rich countries' disregard. Highlighting ways in which Afrige…
Arleen Marcia Tuchman. Diabetes
Journal Article Arleen Marcia Tuchman. Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease. Get access Arleen Marcia Tuchman. Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. xvii, 266. Cloth $25.00. Anne Pollock Anne Pollock King’s College London, UK Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 2, June 2023, Pag…
Catalyst Lead Editing as Creative Worldbuilding
In this piece for the 10th anniversary issue, one of Catalyst’s early lead editorial teams reflects on their experiences. A short collective introduction offers a metaphor of the journal as a garden that was inherited when it was already spring. Then, each of the trio in this lead editor team—Anne Pollock, Nassim Parvin, and Laura Foster—shares her reflections in turn, foregrounding different scales of the endeavor: cultivating authors, peer revi…
Careful Whisper, Heart Feminism
This Image & Text piece is a polyvocal account of Careful Whisper, an experimental installation at the Science Gallery London involving a re-engagement with an essay published in the inaugural issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, “Heart Feminism” (Pollock 2015). After an introduction that situates the project in the domain of art and STS, each of the project’s collaborators contributes a section to this paper: feminist STS scholar …
Our thanks to founding editor Professor Nikolas Rose
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