scholarly journals Milking economies: Multispecies entanglements in the infant formula industry

2021 ◽  
pp. 251484862110361
Author(s):  
Claudia Towne Hirtenfelder ◽  
Carolyn Prouse
Keyword(s):  
Infant Formula ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Dairy Goat ◽  
Genetic Purity ◽  
Race Science ◽  
Feminist Ethic ◽  
Do So

In 2016 the Chinese infant formula company Feihe International signed a deal with the Canadian Dairy Commission (CDC) to process Canadian cows’ and goats’ milk for infant formula export to China. Our purpose in this paper is to understand how this deal – and the new Feihe formula factory located in Kingston, Canada – is underpinned by a series of multispecies entanglements across cow, human and goat mothers in China and Canada. To do so, we analyse official correspondence between the CDC, Feihe and City of Kingston; market reports for the dairy, goat and infant formula industries; and news articles about the Feihe infant formula plant. Conceptually, we develop an anti-colonial, multispecies entanglement framework to chart the violent inclusions, exclusions and typologizations that make milk and formula economies possible. We are specifically interested in how the Feihe–CDC deal (re)configures entanglements across species, nation, race, science and motherhood. To understand these relations, we heuristically imbricate two different sets of entanglements that underpin this deal: milk drinking, empire and genetic purity across race, breed and species; and motherhood, science and technology across humans, goats and cows. We use our threefold entanglement framework to better understand the violence of these imbrications and to work towards a multispecies feminist ethic in the infant formula industry.

The Stone and the Wireless

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaoling Ma
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Qing Dynasty ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Media History ◽  
Gender Dynamics ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
Late Qing ◽  
Feminist Poetry ◽  
Do So ◽  
Communicative Processes

In the final decades of the Manchu Qing dynasty in China, technologies such as the phonograph, telephone, telegraph, and photography were both new and foreign. In The Stone and the Wireless Shaoling Ma analyzes diplomatic diaries, early science fiction, feminist poetry, photography, telegrams, and other archival texts, and shows how writers, intellectuals, reformers, and revolutionaries theorized what media does despite lacking a vocabulary to do so. Media defines the dynamics between technologies and their social or cultural forms, between devices or communicative processes and their representations in texts and images. More than simply reexamining late Qing China's political upheavals and modernizing energies through the lens of media, Ma shows that a new culture of mediation was helping to shape the very distinctions between politics, gender dynamics, economics, and science and technology. Ma contends that mediation lies not only at the heart of Chinese media history but of media history writ large.

scholarly journals Enacting Green Consumers: The Case of the Scandinavian Preppies

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 963-977 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Fuentes
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Economic Sociology ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Green Consumption ◽  
Green Consumers ◽  
Do So

The aim of this paper is to develop and illustrate an analytic approach that brings the active making and makings of green consumer images to the fore. Efforts to “know” the green consumers have generated multiple representations. Enactments of the green consumer are not innocent but also play a role in shaping how we understand and approach sustainable consumption. Because of this it is important to examine and critically discuss how green consumers are enacted today. This paper develops an approach that allows us to examine how green consumers are enacted and discuss the consequences these constructions might have for sustainability. Theoretically, a performativity approach drawing on theories from Science and Technology Studies (STS) and economic sociology is used to discuss the enactment of green consumers. Empirically, focus is on Boomerang – a Swedish fashion retailer, brand, and producer – and its marketing practices. The analysis shows how the marketing work of the Boomerang Company leads to the enactment of the Green Scandinavian Preppy. This specific version of the green consumer is a combination of the knowledgeable green connoisseur – a consumer that knows quality when he/she sees it – and the green hedonist in search of the good life. The Green Scandinavian Preppy wants to enjoy nature, go sailing, and do so wearing fashionable quality clothes. This is a consumer that knows quality, appreciates design, and has the means to pay for both. While this is a version of the green consumer that might be appealing and thus have the potential to promote a version of green consumption, it is also a green consumer image that has lost much of its political power as green consumption is framed as simply another source of pleasure and identity-making.

scholarly journals The Mobilization and Utilization of Scientific and Technological Human Resources in Developing Countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Michel J Moravscik
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Crucial Ingredient ◽  
Do So

Human resources (henceforth abbreviated as "manpower") in the development and the functioning of science and technology in developing countries is the most crucial ingredient, and forms, most often, the bottleneck in evolution. This is so because it takes an extended period of time (decades) to establish an indigenous scientific and technological manpower of sufficient quality and quantity, and because it is a much more difficult and uncertain undertaking to do so than to asquire sufficient financial resources. For this reason problems related to the generation and utilization of scientific and technological manpower are at the very centre of attantion when it comes to managing science and technology in developing countries.

Knowledge sharing among companies in a science and technology park

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Oscar Steffen ◽  
Mírian Oliveira ◽  
Andrea R Balle
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Exploration And Exploitation ◽  
Technology Park ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
New Business ◽  
Science And Technology Park ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Do So

A Science and Technology Park (STP) is an organization that aims to increase the wealth of its community and the culture of innovation and the competitiveness of its associated companies. Accordingly, the Park should stimulate the flow of knowledge between its companies, universities, and the market through the knowledge sharing. Knowledge sharing is a process in which individuals or organizations create knowledge collaboratively by exchanging their implicit or explicit knowledge. Thus, this research aimed to analyze the knowledge sharing between companies in an STP. To do so, qualitative research was carried out through semistructured interviews with 50 companies in an STP. The results show that companies share with other companies of all sizes from different business areas and tend to share with resident companies rather than with incubated ones. The type of knowledge shared between companies is more managerial than technical and can be shared using technology or not, and e-mail is the most used medium. The key benefits expected from sharing are networking, new business opportunities, and process improvement. The reasons for sharing are linked to the exploration and exploitation of knowledge, through which companies can create new processes for developing and refining their products and services.

scholarly journals Planning for science and technology in China and India

BJHS Themes ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 83-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAHNAVI PHALKEY ◽  
ZUOYUE WANG
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Technology Plan ◽  
China And India ◽  
National Planning ◽  
Do So ◽  
Soviet Model

AbstractPlanning for science and technology was a global phenomenon in the mid-twentieth century. A few countries drew up comprehensive five-year plans adapting from the Soviet model: China and India were two new developing countries to do so. In this paper we examine the early efforts at national planning for science and technology as seen in the Chinese twelve-year science and technology plan (1956–1967) and the five-year (1974–1979) science and technology plan of India. These are two historically distinct moments globally and two separate attempts specifically. What tie them together are the goals both sought to accomplish: of science- and technology-led industrialization and development, many times in comparison and sometimes in competition with each other. We show that these two incomplete exercises show us the complex histories of institutions and processes that confirm state-led faith in and engagement with science and technology.

Learned societies and journal publishing

1981 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 211-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Singleton
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
Profit Sharing ◽  
Journal Publishing ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
Do So

The article reports on a study of approximately 500 U.K. learned societies. An initial discussion is given of the histori cal and present-day roles of learned societies and current per ceptions of the relative roles of commercial and learned society publishers. Characteristics of age, size and subject of U.K. learned societies are presented. The main focus of the paper is on the extent and nature of cooperation between learned society and other publishers. Some 30 per cent of U.K. learned societies cooperate with publishiers, to a much larger extent in science and technology than in the arts and humanities. The nature of cooperative arrangements varies markedly but can be broadly classified into: marketing and distribution; 'commission'; profit-sharing; no payment to the society. There is considerable disparity in the deals achieved by societies, particularly between the last two groups men tioned. Most cooperating societies are satisfied with their cur rent relationships, although a number of societies have changed publishers, and over 20 societies who once cooper ated no longer do so. Agreement documents are rarely suffi ciently clear and unambiguous to give confidence in their interpretation. Societies' and publishers' opinions on coopera tion vary markedly and help to illustrate the different percep tions of their roles in journal publishing.

scholarly journals Seed Science and Technology. Volume 48 Issue 3 (2020)

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-451
Author(s):  
Julio Marcos-Filho
Keyword(s):  
Seed Production ◽  
Seed Quality ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Genetic Conservation ◽  
Environmental Restoration ◽  
Genetic Purity ◽  
Seed Testing ◽  
Ornamental Crops ◽  
Local Value

The quality of a seed lot results from the interaction of attributes that determine its overall value for a specific purpose. Seed Science and Technology is a widely recognised journal first published in 1973 as a continuation of the Proceedings of the International Seed Testing Association (1921 to 1972). The Journal publishes original papers and articles comprising different aspects of seed production, processing, storage, testing, genetic conservation, habitat regeneration and reforestation programs, with both basic and applied topics on seed science. Seed quality represents a permanent focus of Seed Science and Technology and the articles published in this issue, with a predominant approach on physiological potential, genetic purity and seed enhancement, confirm this strong commitment The species covered by the articles in this issue represent important worldwide grain, forage and ornamental crops, but there are also species with local value, for environmental restoration and medicinal application.

scholarly journals Editorial: Seed Science and Technology. Volume 49 Issue 3 (2021)

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riad Baalbaki
Keyword(s):  
Native Species ◽  
Seed Quality ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Production Testing ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Genetic Purity ◽  
Seed Vigour ◽  
Seed Biology ◽  
Basic Seed ◽  
Study Species

This issue of Seed Science and Technology is a good reflection of the wide scope of the field of study. Species of interest include major cultivated crops as well as wild and native species. Likewise, research topics span a wide array of subjects relevant to those interested in basic seed biology, production, testing, ecology, conservation and biodiversity. Understanding basic mechanisms of seed dormancy and germination remains a major topic of interest. Seed quality and its attributes are also of particular interest, as evidenced by research articles on seed vigour, health, genetic purity and physical characterisation.

scholarly journals Popularization of Science in Brazil: getting onto the public agenda, but how?

2008 ◽  
Vol 07 (04) ◽  
pp. A02 ◽  
Author(s):  
Márcia Tait Lima ◽  
Ednalva Felix das Neves ◽  
Renato Dagnino
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
The Public ◽  
Brazilian Government ◽  
Popularization Of Science ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Public Agenda ◽  
Public Policy Analysis ◽  
Do So

The importance the Brazilian government has given in the last few years to the dissemination of science points out the necessity of a more discerning analysis about the establishment of this subject on the public agenda and the related public policies undertaken. This work tries to contribute to the debate as an inquiry about the policies to popularize and disseminate Science and Technology (S&T) established by the Science and Technology Popularization and Dissemination Department, which was created in 2004. In order to do so, theoretical references from Public Policy Analysis, the Studies of Science, Technology and Society (SSTS), and Public Communication of Science are used. Furthermore, we analyze some of the results from research on Science and Technology Understanding carried out in Brazil in 2006. As a final point, this associated approach aims at identifying some of the limiting factors related to science dissemination actions in Brazil.

Intervention, Materiality, and Contemporary Somali Counterpiracy

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 511-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katja Lindskov Jacobsen
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Solution Problem ◽  
Do So

AbstractTaking seriously debates in IR about the significance of materiality and noticing the prominence of materiality in contemporary counterpiracy interventions, this article combines insights from Science and Technology Studies (STS) with insights from the poststructuralist intervention literature. Both literatures highlight the importance of “constitutive effects.” Poststructuralists do so with attention to the effects of intervention in constituting, temporarily, the meaning of sovereignty, and STS scholars do so with attention to constitutive effects that processes at the level of materiality give rise to. By combining these two literatures, this article asks: how might we think about the constitutive effects of material aspects of counterpiracy interventions? This question is explored through a focus on two donor-funded pirate prisons in Somalia. By operationalizing the STS notions of coproduction (Jasanoff 2004c) and solution/problem-framings (Beck et al. 2016), the article broadens the study of how intervention practices give rise to constitutive effects by explicitly attending to processes at the level of materiality. This approach enables the article to highlight an important tension in contemporary intervention practices: a tension between donor's desire to delimit intervention contributions and the risk that such contributions (including presumably more easily delineated material aspects) give rise to effects that challenge this faith in neatly delimited forms of intervention. This tension is not only relevant in relation to Somali counterpiracy, but also in other intervention contexts. The article thus illustrates how STS insights can help advance our appreciation of the manifold dimensions and effects of contemporary interventionism.

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