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Time and politics in the scientific ice age
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The two books under review highlight the importance of artificial cold in the modern
political and scientific constitutions. These works may well constitute an important contribution
to spur a new field of anthropological interest around the domestication of low
temperatures in our current political ecology (in its widest sense), exploring its complex
entanglements around scientific and cultural aspects, as well as its historical and social
dynamics. Joanna Radin and Emma Kowal seem to have successfully melted several fields
of social research and shown the utility of theoretically and analytically delving into the
consequences of taming coldness, especially when considering its use for the preservation
of collections of biological materials. Radin’s socio-historical
framework, as deployed in
Life on ice, caught the collections of human blood and plasma assembled by anthropologists,
biologists and physicians, which led, in Cryopolitics, to the tracing of several still
unstated associations connecting scientific, ecological and economical action, relevant in
the global political and scientific environments that emerged during the Cold War period.
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Moreira, R.G. (2018).Time and politics in the scientific ice age. Social Anthropology / Anthropologie Sociale (2018) 26, 4 570–573
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Wiley