D Droney
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 34058 |
|---|---|
| NOME | D Droney |
| PRENOMES | D |
| SOBRENOME | Droney |
| ASSINATURA | DRONEY D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2881-7955 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 44 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Projects, revisited
In this article, I revisit the concept of project as it has been elaborated in anthropological theory in order to evaluate its relevance for contemporary debates regarding the anthropology of the good. In anthropological theory, projects have been understood as culturally constituted desires and aspirations that endure beyond a given moment to guide social action. I identify additional theorizations of the concept of project by tracing its develo…
African Studies Keyword
Vernacular discourse about science reveals theorizations of it as a power-laden, morally charged experimentation with the world guided by (often implicit) ethical orientations. Applying these vernacular theorizations to interpret professional class science on the continent, the author argues that this science has been shaped most profoundly by the politics of independence. While indigenous projects, European imperialism, and neoliberalism shape s…
Alternative medicine devices and the making of scientific herbal medicine in Ghana
Many herbal medicine clinics in the West African nation of Ghana employ alternative medicine diagnostic equipment to help them stand out within a competitive popular medical sector. These devices are a prominent feature of clinics that identify as practising scientific herbal medicine, and they promise scientifically advanced methods of diagnosis and treatment that stand outside mainstream biomedicine. Based on ethnographic research at two such c…
Scientific capacity building and the ontologies of herbal medicine in Ghana
The Centre for Scientific Research into Plant Medicine, a large herbal medicine research center in Ghana, has received important research equipment and training through a transnational research collaboration involving the Japanese International Cooperation Agency. By situating this project in regional debates about traditional medicine research priorities and the ontologies of plant medicine, this article argues that the collaboration had the per…
Networking health
Multi-level marketing (MLM0), a business model in which product distributors are compensated for enrolling further distributors as well as for selling products, has experienced dramatic growth in recent decades, especially in the so-called global South. This paper argues that the global success of MLM is due to its involvement in local health markets. While MLM has been subject to a number of critiques, few have analyzed the explicit health claim…
Ironies of Laboratory Work during Ghana's Second Age of Optimism
While Ghana is touted as an African success story, the young employees of a large herbal medicine research center in Ghana make sardonic and cynical remarks about the state of science in contemporary Africa. They decry the improvisation that characterizes doing science on the continent, point out what is lacking from their laboratories, and mock the ways in which their work appears embarrassingly peculiar. They claim that their labs are "not mode…
"The Business of "Getting Up
Street art" is an emerging form of graffiti art that was popularized in the 1990s. I argue that street artists seek to subvert the perceived power of corporate marketing while simultaneously engaging in brand-name marketing. This is made possible by an original overlapping of the aesthetic domains of street art and marketing, in which contemporary marketing campaigns and street artists alike work with the aesthetics of subversion and personal lib…
Ironies of Laboratory Work during Ghana's Second Age of Optimism
While Ghana is touted as an African success story, the young employees of a large herbal medicine research center in Ghana make sardonic and cynical remarks about the state of science in contemporary Africa. They decry the improvisation that characterizes doing science on the continent, point out what is lacking from their laboratories, and mock the ways in which their work appears embarrassingly peculiar. They claim that their labs are "not mode…
"The Business of "Getting Up
Street art" is an emerging form of graffiti art that was popularized in the 1990s. I argue that street artists seek to subvert the perceived power of corporate marketing while simultaneously engaging in brand-name marketing. This is made possible by an original overlapping of the aesthetic domains of street art and marketing, in which contemporary marketing campaigns and street artists alike work with the aesthetics of subversion and personal lib…
Networking health
Multi-level marketing (MLM0), a business model in which product distributors are compensated for enrolling further distributors as well as for selling products, has experienced dramatic growth in recent decades, especially in the so-called global South. This paper argues that the global success of MLM is due to its involvement in local health markets. While MLM has been subject to a number of critiques, few have analyzed the explicit health claim…
Projects, revisited
In this article, I revisit the concept of project as it has been elaborated in anthropological theory in order to evaluate its relevance for contemporary debates regarding the anthropology of the good. In anthropological theory, projects have been understood as culturally constituted desires and aspirations that endure beyond a given moment to guide social action. I identify additional theorizations of the concept of project by tracing its develo…
African Studies Keyword
Vernacular discourse about science reveals theorizations of it as a power-laden, morally charged experimentation with the world guided by (often implicit) ethical orientations. Applying these vernacular theorizations to interpret professional class science on the continent, the author argues that this science has been shaped most profoundly by the politics of independence. While indigenous projects, European imperialism, and neoliberalism shape s…
"The Business of "Getting Up
Street art" is an emerging form of graffiti art that was popularized in the 1990s. I argue that street artists seek to subvert the perceived power of corporate marketing while simultaneously engaging in brand-name marketing. This is made possible by an original overlapping of the aesthetic domains of street art and marketing, in which contemporary marketing campaigns and street artists alike work with the aesthetics of subversion and personal lib…
Ironies of Laboratory Work during Ghana's Second Age of Optimism
While Ghana is touted as an African success story, the young employees of a large herbal medicine research center in Ghana make sardonic and cynical remarks about the state of science in contemporary Africa. They decry the improvisation that characterizes doing science on the continent, point out what is lacking from their laboratories, and mock the ways in which their work appears embarrassingly peculiar. They claim that their labs are "not mode…
Scientific capacity building and the ontologies of herbal medicine in Ghana
The Centre for Scientific Research into Plant Medicine, a large herbal medicine research center in Ghana, has received important research equipment and training through a transnational research collaboration involving the Japanese International Cooperation Agency. By situating this project in regional debates about traditional medicine research priorities and the ontologies of plant medicine, this article argues that the collaboration had the per…
Networking health
Multi-level marketing (MLM0), a business model in which product distributors are compensated for enrolling further distributors as well as for selling products, has experienced dramatic growth in recent decades, especially in the so-called global South. This paper argues that the global success of MLM is due to its involvement in local health markets. While MLM has been subject to a number of critiques, few have analyzed the explicit health claim…
Alternative medicine devices and the making of scientific herbal medicine in Ghana
Many herbal medicine clinics in the West African nation of Ghana employ alternative medicine diagnostic equipment to help them stand out within a competitive popular medical sector. These devices are a prominent feature of clinics that identify as practising scientific herbal medicine, and they promise scientifically advanced methods of diagnosis and treatment that stand outside mainstream biomedicine. Based on ethnographic research at two such c…
Projects, revisited
In this article, I revisit the concept of project as it has been elaborated in anthropological theory in order to evaluate its relevance for contemporary debates regarding the anthropology of the good. In anthropological theory, projects have been understood as culturally constituted desires and aspirations that endure beyond a given moment to guide social action. I identify additional theorizations of the concept of project by tracing its develo…
African Studies Keyword
Vernacular discourse about science reveals theorizations of it as a power-laden, morally charged experimentation with the world guided by (often implicit) ethical orientations. Applying these vernacular theorizations to interpret professional class science on the continent, the author argues that this science has been shaped most profoundly by the politics of independence. While indigenous projects, European imperialism, and neoliberalism shape s…
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