How to avoid the "infrastructural blues"? Studying-while-caring for data stewardship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2289796 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luis Felipe R Murillo (0000-0003-0563-7783, University of Notre Dame, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 36-51 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of Anthropological Practice (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2153-957X • E-ISSN: 2153-9588 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/napa.12208 |
| OpenAlex | W4390013803 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 37 |
When it comes to climate crisis research, current debates are increasingly thematizing the needs but also the challenges of collaborative, transdisciplinary work. Geophysical characterizations of climate change are increasingly deemed insufficient to respond to the challenges that vulnerable communities face worldwide. In this paper, I describe the work of studying-while-caring for an environmental data infrastructure in order to address this issue. I suggest framing "data management" anthropologically as a question of collective stewardship that is better conceived as a "knowledge infrastructure" (Edwards 2010) instead of a formal approach to automated data curation. To examine the sociotechnical blindspots of data management, I elaborate on the anthropological concept of "infrastructural blues" based on the data engineering work I conducted. For the conclusion, I discuss the concept of "common" as a substitute for "open" technologies and address the broader implications of the proposed shift toward community stewardship and self-determination as guiding practices for socio-environmental data governance
Blues · Business · Corporate governance · Data curation · Data science · Engineering ethics · Environmental resource management · Framing (construction · Knowledge management · Management · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Sociotechnical system · Stewardship (theology · Work (physics · Computer Science · Engineering · Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies · Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing · Research Data Management Practices
Anthropology and Climate Change
International Handbook of Internet Research
Indigenous Data Sovereignty
Designs for the Pluriverse
Coding Freedom
Operationalizing the Care and Fair Principles for Indigenous data futures
The Care Principles for Indigenous Data Governance
The Fair Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
Introduction
‘Postscript on the Societies of Control’
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
How norms, needs, and power in science obstruct transformations towards sustainability
The role of data management in engaging communities in Arctic research
Local indicators of climate change
Science friction
Anthropologie du don
Just good enough data
A framework for co-production of knowledge in the context of Arctic research
Political ecology and decolonial research
The Ethnography of Infrastructure
Sociologie et anthropologie
Decolonizing Methodologies
The psychic life of biopolitics
The Proper Copy
Freedom Imagined
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |