Language in Medical Worlds: Hearing Technology for Deaf Jordanian Children by Loh, Yui Leh Timothy

“…Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork at a cochlear implantation initiative and an audiology department in Amman, I argue that this imperative must be understood in relation to anxieties about the status of Arabic in Jordan and the historical value of orality in the Middle East. …”
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Nature/Culture/Seawater by Helmreich, Stefan

“…I develop this argument using ethnographic materials drawn from fieldwork among oceanographers working in the Sargasso Sea and in the Sea Islands. …”
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In Life's Likeness: Biomimicry and the Imitation of Nature by Fadok, Richard Alexander

“…Based on six years of ethnographic fieldwork in North America, with an emphasis on the United States, I analyze how biomimics construe, produce, and evaluate imitations to understand the cultural dimensions of this gap between vision and circumstance. …”
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Cloud Ecologies: An Environmental Ethnography of Data Centers by Gonzalez, Steven

“…Given that a significant portion of this fieldwork was undertaken during the height of COVID-19, the dissertation’s chapters are interrupted by experimental vignettes I call “precipitations”, which call for theoretical and methodological innovations amid pandemic lockdowns and the near-impossibility of human subjects research. …”
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Interstitial Intelligence: Human-Rodent Sensing, Cognition, and Work in Morogoro, Tanzania by Lee, Jia Hui

“…In Part II, I draw on ethnographic fieldwork, including participant observation and interviews, to analyze emergent forms of interspecies and interstitial thinking practiced by those who research, train, and trap rodents. …”
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