Transforming Data: An Ethnography of Scientific Data from the Brazilian Amazon
- Antonia Caitlin Walford
Research Output:
Theses
PhD thesis
Publication Information
Output type
Research Output:
Theses
PhD thesis
Original language
EnglishQualification
PhDPublication milestones
- Published - 2013
Publication status
Published - 2013
Supervisors/Advisors
- Casper Bruun Jensen (Principal Supervisor)
Award date
11/02/2013Publisher
IT-Universitetet i København, DenmarkBook series
- Book series name: ITU-DS
Series number: 93
ISSN: 1602-3536
ISBN (Print)
978-87-7949-288-2Abstract
This thesis is an ethnography of scientific data produced by a Brazil-led scientific
project in the Brazilian Amazon. It describes how the researchers and technicians
make data about the Amazon forest, and how this data in turn generates different
scientific communities, scientific subjectivities, and claims about the world. It
explores the limits of a representational idiom to describe such scientific practice, and in so doing investigates the reflexive and recursive repercussions of such descriptions for the anthropology of science.
project in the Brazilian Amazon. It describes how the researchers and technicians
make data about the Amazon forest, and how this data in turn generates different
scientific communities, scientific subjectivities, and claims about the world. It
explores the limits of a representational idiom to describe such scientific practice, and in so doing investigates the reflexive and recursive repercussions of such descriptions for the anthropology of science.