Luísa Reis-Castro
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 879078 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Luísa Reis-Castro |
| NOMBRES | Luísa |
| APELLIDO | Reis-Castro |
| FIRMA | REIS-CASTRO L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2564-629X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Political Animals
What does it mean to live—and therefore die—in a more‐than‐human world? This review essay explores that question through reflections on teaching Political Animals: Species, Class, Race, and Gender, an undergraduate course that introduces students to scholarship on human‐nonhuman relations. Organized around four questions—What are the politics of connections in more‐than‐human worlds? What is health or well‐being when some multispecies relations c…
Can the Mosquito Bite? The Multispecies Transmutation of Wolbachia Mosquitoes as Biotechnologies of Epidemic Control in Rio de Janeiro
A bite from the Aedes aegypti mosquito can transmit pathogenic viruses such as dengue, Zika, and chikungunya. While public health campaigns have historically focused on eliminating this vector species, a project in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, proposes to release A. aegypti carrying the intracellular bacterium Wolbachia. This microbe, passed from female A. aegypti to their progeny, would hinder viral transmission, making the bite less of a threat and …
Devir-Sem
O mosquito Aedes aegypti, conhecido como o vetor dos vírus Zika, dengue, chikungunya e febre amarela, tem sido o alvo de campanhas de saúde pública, sendo visto historicamente como um inimigo a ser eliminado. No entanto, novas estratégias, como a abordagem transgênica, modificam biologicamente os mosquitos a fim de empregá-los no controle de sua própria população - aqui, a criação e o acasalamento de mosquitos são operacionalizados como inseticid…
Bites, Blood, Boundaries
Domestication is a set of processes that requires active reconfigurations of interspecies relations, environments, and technologies. In this view, both ethnographic and historical sources help us track the exact ways that domestication as a practice actively reveals and conceals relations of power among people and between people and other animals. Two pertinent cases-training rats in Tanzania to detect landmines and releasing mosquitoes to deter …
"Ambivalent Insects" as Tools and Targets
The binary categories of harm and benefit have often shaped how historians frame discussions of insects. Scientists also leverage the binary framing of insects as tools and targets to carry out their work, especially in the development of biological technologies for pest control. This essay emphasizes how binaries function in scientific practice. Two case studies spanning from the twentieth century to the recent past illustrate the shift away fro…
Science, Race, and Racism
How are historically constituted racial technologies and categories mobilized, produced, and materialized in practices and discourses within supposedly universal science? This entry considers the multiple ways in which ethnographic research can showcase how particular histories of racism are updated through scientific practices, and how global scientific projects capitalize on local racial hierarchies. It examines the nexus between science, race,…
Becoming Without
The Aedes aegypti mosquito, known as the vector for Zika, dengue, chikungunya, and yellow fever viruses, has historically been targeted by public health campaigns as an enemy to be eliminated. However, new strategies, such as the transgenic approach, biologically modify the A. aegypti so that they can be deployed to control their own population—here, mosquito breeding and mating is operationalized as an insecticide. In this case, the insect must …
Uma antropologia da transmissão
No Brasil, Zika é apresentado como um vírus transmitido somente por mosquitos e a epidemia como uma preocupação somente para mulheres. Para examinar essa errônea caracterização, este artigo investiga as múltiplas rotas de transmissão do vírus Zika: transmissão vetorial (através da picada de um mosquito), transmissão por fluidos (através, por exemplo, do sêmen) e transmissão vertical (através da placenta para o feto no útero). Ao analisarmos a pas…
Cortes de carne
Antropólogas e antropólogos, ávidos por trazer à tona a originalidade dos povos por elas estudados, afirmam que, em contraste com uma “natureza” única no Ocidente, ontologias ameríndias possuem muitas naturezas. Mas será que relatos fascinantes sobre maneiras ameríndias de fazer-o-mundo [world-making] devem presumir tanto sobre o “Ocidente”? É sobre isso que temos dúvidas. Tomando “Ocidental” não como uma região mas como um estilo, nós exploramos…
Winged promises
Winged promises
Uma antropologia da transmissão
No Brasil, Zika é apresentado como um vírus transmitido somente por mosquitos e a epidemia como uma preocupação somente para mulheres. Para examinar essa errônea caracterização, este artigo investiga as múltiplas rotas de transmissão do vírus Zika: transmissão vetorial (através da picada de um mosquito), transmissão por fluidos (através, por exemplo, do sêmen) e transmissão vertical (através da placenta para o feto no útero). Ao analisarmos a pas…
Winged promises
Cortes de carne
Antropólogas e antropólogos, ávidos por trazer à tona a originalidade dos povos por elas estudados, afirmam que, em contraste com uma “natureza” única no Ocidente, ontologias ameríndias possuem muitas naturezas. Mas será que relatos fascinantes sobre maneiras ameríndias de fazer-o-mundo [world-making] devem presumir tanto sobre o “Ocidente”? É sobre isso que temos dúvidas. Tomando “Ocidental” não como uma região mas como um estilo, nós exploramos…
Uma antropologia da transmissão
No Brasil, Zika é apresentado como um vírus transmitido somente por mosquitos e a epidemia como uma preocupação somente para mulheres. Para examinar essa errônea caracterização, este artigo investiga as múltiplas rotas de transmissão do vírus Zika: transmissão vetorial (através da picada de um mosquito), transmissão por fluidos (através, por exemplo, do sêmen) e transmissão vertical (através da placenta para o feto no útero). Ao analisarmos a pas…
Becoming Without
The Aedes aegypti mosquito, known as the vector for Zika, dengue, chikungunya, and yellow fever viruses, has historically been targeted by public health campaigns as an enemy to be eliminated. However, new strategies, such as the transgenic approach, biologically modify the A. aegypti so that they can be deployed to control their own population—here, mosquito breeding and mating is operationalized as an insecticide. In this case, the insect must …
Science, Race, and Racism
How are historically constituted racial technologies and categories mobilized, produced, and materialized in practices and discourses within supposedly universal science? This entry considers the multiple ways in which ethnographic research can showcase how particular histories of racism are updated through scientific practices, and how global scientific projects capitalize on local racial hierarchies. It examines the nexus between science, race,…
Devir-Sem
O mosquito Aedes aegypti, conhecido como o vetor dos vírus Zika, dengue, chikungunya e febre amarela, tem sido o alvo de campanhas de saúde pública, sendo visto historicamente como um inimigo a ser eliminado. No entanto, novas estratégias, como a abordagem transgênica, modificam biologicamente os mosquitos a fim de empregá-los no controle de sua própria população - aqui, a criação e o acasalamento de mosquitos são operacionalizados como inseticid…
Bites, Blood, Boundaries
Domestication is a set of processes that requires active reconfigurations of interspecies relations, environments, and technologies. In this view, both ethnographic and historical sources help us track the exact ways that domestication as a practice actively reveals and conceals relations of power among people and between people and other animals. Two pertinent cases-training rats in Tanzania to detect landmines and releasing mosquitoes to deter …
"Ambivalent Insects" as Tools and Targets
The binary categories of harm and benefit have often shaped how historians frame discussions of insects. Scientists also leverage the binary framing of insects as tools and targets to carry out their work, especially in the development of biological technologies for pest control. This essay emphasizes how binaries function in scientific practice. Two case studies spanning from the twentieth century to the recent past illustrate the shift away fro…
Can the Mosquito Bite? The Multispecies Transmutation of Wolbachia Mosquitoes as Biotechnologies of Epidemic Control in Rio de Janeiro
A bite from the Aedes aegypti mosquito can transmit pathogenic viruses such as dengue, Zika, and chikungunya. While public health campaigns have historically focused on eliminating this vector species, a project in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, proposes to release A. aegypti carrying the intracellular bacterium Wolbachia. This microbe, passed from female A. aegypti to their progeny, would hinder viral transmission, making the bite less of a threat and …
Political Animals
What does it mean to live—and therefore die—in a more‐than‐human world? This review essay explores that question through reflections on teaching Political Animals: Species, Class, Race, and Gender, an undergraduate course that introduces students to scholarship on human‐nonhuman relations. Organized around four questions—What are the politics of connections in more‐than‐human worlds? What is health or well‐being when some multispecies relations c…
Biology (4 obras) · Ecology (4 obras) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 obras) · Mosquito-borne diseases and control (3 obras) · Sociology (3 obras) · Art (2 obras) · Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (2 obras) · Political science (2 obras) · Politics (2 obras) · Race, Genetics, and Society (2 obras)