Beyond samplism
Rethinking the field in exposure science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6452510 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sebastián Ureta (0000-0003-3169-4992, College UC & Instituto para el Desarrollo Sustentable, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 404-422 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Studies of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-3127 • E-ISSN: 1460-3659 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/03063127241288581 |
| PMID | 39425603 |
| OpenAlex | W4403556980 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 39 |
Given the many forms of environmental pollution that have accompanied the global spread of industrial capitalism, there is an urgent need to carry out extensive assessments of the potential toxicity of many compounds on human and nonhuman populations. However, the scientific procedures developed to carry out such assessments present several critical shortcomings that greatly diminish their capacity to protect populations at risk. Through an ethnographic analysis of two field campaigns centered on the assessment of polluted sites in northern Chile, this article will reveal that these campaigns are embedded in what we can call samplism . Contrary to approaches that see fieldwork as generative spaces for knowledge creation, samplism radically simplifies the field into a neutral space for the collection of singular and well-defined lab-bound samples. However, samplism entails that multiple field phenomena relevant for assessing pollution levels are left completely unaccounted for, which greatly diminishes exposure science’s overall capacity to help improve the lives of those in need. Thus, exposure science urgently needs todevelop more capacious forms of engagement with the field, an ecological fieldwork that truly represents the complexity of forces and processes behind contemporary processes of pollution and damage
Biology · Citizen science · Environmental ethics · Environmental planning · Epistemology · Ethnography · Field (mathematics · Geography · Political science · Scientific field · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
The invention of modern science
Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty
Landscapes and Labscapes
Program Earth
The Infanticide Controversy
Toxic Injustice
The masking and making of fieldworkers and data in postcolonial Global Health research contexts
To Place or Not to Place
Why environmental exposures
Toxic Bodies/Toxic Environments
Toxic Ignorance. How Regulatory Procedures and Industrial Knowledge Jeopardise the Risk Assessment of Chemicals
From ships to robots
Human bodies as chemical sensors
A vast machine
City as Truth-Spot
Inescapable Ecologies
Pandora's hope
Style' for historians and philosophers
Suspending Damage
Ruination Science
"From Thing to Sign and "Natural Object
Of Disciplined Minds and Disciplined Bodies
Experiencing everyday ethics in context
Introduction
Whose Home Is the Field
Flipping the Field
Professional Vision
The Fieldsite as Device
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |