The Wild Indoors

Room-Spaces of Scientific Inquiry

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2435600
AutoresAnn H Kelly (0000-0003-4658-2133, King's College London), Javier Lezaun (0000-0002-5483-3628, University of Oxford)
Ano2017
Volume32
Fascículo3
Páginas367-398
Data de publicação2017-08-19
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCultural Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0886-7356 • E-ISSN: 1548-1360
EditoraAmerican Anthropological Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.14506/ca32.3.06
OpenAlexW2747839795
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências citadas26

This article examines three locations where entomologists engage in the experimental observation of mosquitoes: the insectary, the semifield station, and the outdoors. We approach each of these settings as creating a distinct mode of interiority, a particular room-space. This concept resets the investigative encounter in terms of an aesthetic of attention, and offers a counterpoint to the ideals of control and containment that dominate biosecurity understandings of infectious disease research. An ethnographic foray into the compositional logics of entomological experiments serves to illuminate the dialectics of caring and killing that characterize scientific inquiry into animals that pose a public health risk

Aesthetics · Biosecurity · Counterpoint · Dialectic · Epistemology · Ethnography · Linguistics · Pathology · Pedagogy · Sociology · Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Medicine · Philosophy · Zoonotic diseases and public health