{"title":"Late to the Party: Articulating Time and Care in Interdisciplinary Projects","authors":"Jennifer Croissant","doi":"10.28968/cftt.v9i2.39341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v9i2.39341","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the disjunctures and “catch-up” work of developing relationships and getting a sense of the project as community and intellectual venture as a “fill-in” social scientist added late to a large, complex interdisciplinary project. Based on two years of intermittent interactions (live and virtual) and tracking the communications of the group, from grant proposal formulation through the first year of the award, I describe how time operates in several registers: idiosyncratic, disciplinary, institutional, and epistemic. How these registers intersect with and without friction is an unexamined issue in studies of interdisciplinarity. It is more than “time management,” although that is a significant coordination challenge for project leadership. But the (dis)articulations of registers also trace the hierarchicalization of disciplines and practices in ways that challenge effective interdisciplinarity and program goals of inclusivity.","PeriodicalId":72536,"journal":{"name":"Catalyst (San Diego, Calif.)","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135726433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cover Art | Bloomer Artist Statement","authors":"Kate Timbes","doi":"10.28968/cftt.v9i2.42060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v9i2.42060","url":null,"abstract":"Artist Statement for Catalyst cover art \"Bloomer\"","PeriodicalId":72536,"journal":{"name":"Catalyst (San Diego, Calif.)","volume":"86 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135725520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performing Geology: Risk and Conquest in the Origin Stories of a Field Science","authors":"Tamara Pico","doi":"10.28968/cftt.v9i2.38296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v9i2.38296","url":null,"abstract":"Stories about the foundation of US geology as a discipline are prominent in the culture of field geology today. This article traces the threads of such “origin stories” through field geology practices and undergraduate training. The repetition of these origin stories obfuscates the colonial and race-fueled motives that underpin the actions of the US geologist characters featured in these stories. Increasingly, the field is recognized as a site of sexual and racial harassment and abuse. By making visible the racialized subplots in the history of US geology, which include entrenchment in racial science and land dispossession, I posit that the curated origin stories repeated today perpetuate processes of gendered and race-based exclusion and subjugation in field geology.","PeriodicalId":72536,"journal":{"name":"Catalyst (San Diego, Calif.)","volume":"57 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135725964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sheltering: Care Tactics for Ethnography Attentive to Intersectionality and Underrepresentation in Technoscience","authors":"Coleen Carrigan","doi":"10.28968/cftt.v9i2.39368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v9i2.39368","url":null,"abstract":"Designing ethnographic research on the technoscience workforce according to intersectionality theory presents both opportunities and constraints. On the one hand, the pursuit of justice in technoscience requires attending to differences between scientists who have been disenfranchised from knowledge production due to racism and sexism. On the other hand, sharing the lived experiences of severely underrepresented members of technoscience heightens the risk of harm. I introduce a practice called Sheltering, inspired by the computer science technique of “black boxing” and feminist methodology of “strong objectivity.” The opacity of the shelter in which some data resides is balanced with the transparency of the researcher’s positionality. Combining reflexivity, refusal, and performative design, Sheltering contests dominant norms in science, while minimizing risks of retaliation to collaborators. It also balances communal responsibilities with research integrity. It not only requires consideration for the researcher’s relationship with collaborators, but also attention to power in the worlds they navigate and solidarity in their struggles. Sheltering, a repertoire of care tactics to protest epistemic and social injustice in US knowledge production, can help transform who gets to produce science and reimagine other ways of knowing.","PeriodicalId":72536,"journal":{"name":"Catalyst (San Diego, Calif.)","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135725503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Attuning to the Erratic End of Life: The Logic of Care in Hospice at Home","authors":"Anne-chie Wang","doi":"10.28968/cftt.v9i2.39526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v9i2.39526","url":null,"abstract":"How do dying people receive good care at home in a highly institutionalized death context? The Ministry of Health and Welfare in Taiwan, for example, has promoted hospice home care and respecting patient autonomy to improve the quality of end-of-life experiences. However, this study finds that end-of-life care is not automatically personalized or empowering for patients. From the theoretical perspective of care practices, this study accentuates the importance of family carers’ invisible work in achieving these goals for patients. Drawing from in-depth interviews and twelve months of participant observation in a medical center in northern Taiwan, the study found that family caregivers are meticulously attuned to the patient’s condition to provide care, which includes rearranging the place, coordinating resources and other carers, and practicing care. This paper reveals that the practice of hospice home care does not depend merely on the patient’s autonomy but also on the family caregivers’ and medical team’s work, which is relatively invisible within the health insurance system.","PeriodicalId":72536,"journal":{"name":"Catalyst (San Diego, Calif.)","volume":"87 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135725506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Through the Eyes of the T. rex: Animal Behavior in Dinosaur Fiction","authors":"Luke-Elizabeth Gartley","doi":"10.28968/cftt.v9i2.37839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v9i2.37839","url":null,"abstract":"Animal point-of-view fiction (also sometimes called “xenofiction”) is a niche genre that emerged in the modern era. Both prose fiction and comics told from an animal point-of-view can offer unique insights into cultural understandings of animal behavior, nature, and the environment more broadly. This article delves specifically into dinosaur point-of-view fiction, which at times has even been written by or with support from professional paleontologists. Through several popular examples of dinosaur fiction and comics published from the 1990s to the 2010s, this article will examine how these texts illustrate how fictional representations of scientific understandings conform to or challenge dominant narratives around the natural world, gender, and power. These stories, including Stephen Bissette’s unfinished comic series Tyrant (1993–1996), and Robert Bakker’s novel Raptor Red (1995), and most recently Tadd Galusha’s graphic novel Cretaceous (2019), use creative storytelling techniques to entertain readers, while also representing and participating in scientific discourses of paleontology and animal behavior.","PeriodicalId":72536,"journal":{"name":"Catalyst (San Diego, Calif.)","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135725515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Caring for Equitable Relations in Interdisciplinary Collaborations","authors":"Coleen Carrigan, None Caitlin D. Wylie","doi":"10.28968/cftt.v9i2.41070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v9i2.41070","url":null,"abstract":"Collaborative research between scholars of science and technology studies (STS)and scholars of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) is a growing trend. The papers assembled in thisSpecial Section offer both embodied and empirical knowledge on how ethnographers negotiate our roles in integrative research when constrained by what our technoscientific collaborators value, what funders demand, what our home institutions expect, what we want to learn from the worlds we study, and the social transformations we envision in science and society. We grapple with how we as ethnographers can best balance caring for the communities we study, the ones we serve, and the ones we identify with. We take care that knowledge making is political. Race, gender, class, and ability status of scholars intersect with the organizational, institutional, and cultural contexts in which we practice science to shape and be shaped by entrenched power relations.Through a feminist politics of care, this collection transforms tensions in interdisciplinary collaborations into resources that enlarge our understandings of what these collaborations are like for STS ethnographers, make visible certain labors within them and, crucially, enrich our vision for what we want these collaborations to be.","PeriodicalId":72536,"journal":{"name":"Catalyst (San Diego, Calif.)","volume":"88 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135725685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Care-fully?: The Question of “Knowledge Co-production” in Arctic Science","authors":"Caitlin Wylie, Luis Felipe Rosado Murillo","doi":"10.28968/cftt.v9i2.39359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v9i2.39359","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding and redressing the climate crisis in the Arctic demands acknowledging and translating perspectives from frontline communities, environmental scientists, Indigenous knowledge bearers, and social scientists. As a first approximation to the question of how Arctic scientists conceptualize and enact “knowledge co-production,” we analyze how they write about it in their academic publications through a systematic literature review. Based on the results, we identify the lack of clear definition and practical engagement with “co-production” understood as a practice of integrating knowledges and methodological approaches from various disciplines and cultures. We raise concerns regarding researchers’ claims of co-production without understanding what it means, which is particularly harmful for Arctic communities whose knowledge practices scientists have long marginalized and exploited. In response, we argue that feminist STS scholarship provides crucial guidance on how to create and sustain meaningful relationships for knowledge co-production. These relationships can potentially subvert power inequities that have prevented many Arctic science teams from breaking out of traditional disciplinary silos to create new forms of knowledge exchange, particularly those based on notions of care for collaborators, communities, and equity.","PeriodicalId":72536,"journal":{"name":"Catalyst (San Diego, Calif.)","volume":"54 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135725708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS","authors":"Mairead Sullivan","doi":"10.28968/cftt.v9i2.40476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v9i2.40476","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72536,"journal":{"name":"Catalyst (San Diego, Calif.)","volume":"89 14","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135725672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Affecting Infrastructures: Crafting and Weaving as Alternative Repairs","authors":"Fabiola Claus, Eliana Sánchez Aldana, Dimitris Papadapoulos","doi":"10.28968/cftt.v9i2.39206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v9i2.39206","url":null,"abstract":"As two traditional practices performed by rural communities in Colombia, crafting and weaving can be reframed as ontologies that embody alternative material orders and forms of repair. In this context, we explore two specific initiatives: the Crafted Empathy Chair developed by members of campesino social movements in Cauca and Nariño, and Interweaving Material Encounters, a series of collaborative spaces involving women from textile collectives from Chocó, Antioquia, and Bolivar. In the process of exploring these initiatives, we reflect on the role of nonhumans as technologies that allow our interlocutors to share their affect. In addition to discussing strategies for engaging in affective relations when dealing with the aftermath of war violence, we describe how these arrangements affect us as a part of the audience. Thus, we propose the term affecting infrastructure to conceptualize how crafting and weaving can foster everyday spaces and shared grounds for the emergence of emotional engagements as alternative modes of repair.","PeriodicalId":72536,"journal":{"name":"Catalyst (San Diego, Calif.)","volume":"80 13","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135726435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}