Book Reviews by Fabio D Miranda
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 2020
Book review essay on two recent pieces on Cold War expertise and international cooperation in Eas... more Book review essay on two recent pieces on Cold War expertise and international cooperation in East Asia and Latin America
Anthropologica, 2016
Reseña de la traducción al español de No Bells To Toll: Destruction and creation in the Andes (1989)
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Anthropologica, 2024
«El puente no se ha caído, solamente se ha desplomado su apoyo extremo […] Yo le estoy hablando t... more «El puente no se ha caído, solamente se ha desplomado su apoyo extremo […] Yo le estoy hablando técnicamente y usted no me va a entender nunca porque usted es periodista»
Pulse: the Journal of Science and Culture, 2023
Anthropologists and scholars of science and technology have discussed the accuracy of describing ... more Anthropologists and scholars of science and technology have discussed the accuracy of describing “Western” societies as being underpinned by an ontology of unitary nature in contrast with the multinaturalism of “non-Western” ones. They have postulated instead that multiple realities are enacted by practices and made to hang together through various forms of coordination. In this paper I analyze how coherence is achieved in a natural protected area in coastal Peru and discuss its particularities vis-à-vis other proposed types of multiplicity. By observing a group of fieldworkers engaged in practices of direct observation, I focus on the use of the caseta, a perceptive device designed to approach birds without disturbance. Reflecting on this specific context in which this method is used, I argue that a refractive multiplicity emerges due to the interaction of institutionally differentiated perspectives that get entangled within the caseta.
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 2020
Debates en Sociología, 2019
Gubernamentalidad corporativa y despolitización del reasentamiento de Morococha: una aproximación... more Gubernamentalidad corporativa y despolitización del reasentamiento de Morococha: una aproximación etnográfica Resumen El artículo describe el proceso de reasentamiento de la ciudad de Morococha, en la provincia altoandina de Yauli, en Junín, así como la trayectoria histórica de la localidad como ciudad-empresa y su centralidad en el desarrollo del eje minero-metalúrgico de la sierra central. Asimismo, se analizan críticamente los discursos que enmarcan al sujeto de desplazamiento por la empresa minera y el sentido de comunidad de la población, con la finalidad de desentrañar los términos en los cuales se organizan las diferencias sociales. El artículo concluye con algunos alcances sobre la despolitización del proceso de reasentamiento como parte de las nuevas formas de gubernamentalidad corporativa, el desfase entre los discursos endógenos sobre pertenencia y las prácticas de identificación de afectados por la empresa.
Debates en Sociología, 2017
The article describes the process of resettlement in Morococha, in the highland province of Yauli... more The article describes the process of resettlement in Morococha, in the highland province of Yauli in Junín as well as its historical trajectory as a mining town pivotal to the development of the mining-metallurgic axis in the central highlands of Peru. Additionally, the article critically analyzes mining company discourse that frames the displaced subject and the construction of the sense of community in order to disentangle the terms in which social difference is organized. The article concludes with some insights on the depoliticization of the resettlement process as part of the new forms of corporate governmentality and the gap between endogenous discourses about belonging and practices of identification of affected individuals.
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