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📢Issue 11.2 out now! 12 engagements from the thematic collection "Entangled Areas" on #STS & #SouthEastAsia in the #Anthropocene + the journal's editorial reflection on the collection ++ 1 ORA on the limits of standardization in police reporting 👀bit.ly/49RT8PW
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News from ESTS! Meet our incoming Editorial Collective and discover what’s ahead: continuous publication, a flexible submission category, and an expanded vision of openness in #STS. estsjournal.org/index.php/es… #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing
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How do crime analysts navigate the tensions between data from police reporting and the request to produce data analysis for governance purposes? How does it affect knowledge production in police work? 👀Read by M. Leese: doi.org/qjzw #Standardization #Desrosières
Photograph of documents spread and piled on top of each other, with a pen and a magnifying glass atop. By Andrijana Bozic under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/48J7xwO.

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What is the role of #STS in reimagining #SoutheastAsia as an #Area? How can #STS do so without letting any single regime of spatial identity dominate to the extent that it becomes fixed or given? 👀Read T. Winichakul’s meditation in his Afterword: doi.org/qjxb
A photograph of a world map marked with colored pins at various locations of Southeast Asia, with a close-up focusing on Indonesia. By "Z" under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/4qgUjgJ.

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How may following the embodied and tactile worlding of the #durian fruit add generative possibilities to well-rehearsed critiques of #AreaStudies? 👀"Manifesto of the Durian" by @FadjarThufail: doi.org/qjwq #SoutheastAsia #EntangledAreas #Multispecies #Topology
Photograph of a pile of durian fruits in a basket by the roadside in Singapore. By Aiva Apsite under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/48TPgvv.

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#Areas are not containers—they materialise, for example, as the changing set of #multispecies entanglements linking humans, cattle, chemicals, and cultural tastes across borders 👀Read by @JirapornZwemmer on Southeast Asian cross-border #CattleTrade: doi.org/qjv4
Photograph of cattle being transported out of a truck to the border of Thailand. Photograph by the author of the article.

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By following #malaria across Greater Mekong #borderlands—& its links to Africa through parasites, research networks + postcolonial histories—this article rethinks what #regions are & why they matter for #GlobalMalariaControl 👀Read by @imagethnography: doi.org/qjvz
2015 photograph by the author of the article of a newly created red earth road in Mondulkiri province, northeastern Cambodia.

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How does #RacialBelonging mediate the production of #PopularTerritories & thereby unsettle + rearticulate dominant understandings of #area? 👀Read by @XazaarAdjame on the collective life in movement of #Indonesian #UrbanYouth: doi.org/qjnw #Blackness #Circulation
Photograph of a group of people standing on a dock next to a boat in Jakarta. By Pradamas Gifarry under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/49JxOvU

ALT Photograph of a group of people standing on a dock next to a boat in Jakarta. By Pradamas Gifarry under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/49JxOvU

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Taking the example of peripheral urban gardens in Manila @ksaguin reconceptualizes #Area within #Urbanism + #SoutheastAsia, shifting from static spatial formulations toward its generative capacities for multiplicity & heterogeneity 👀doi.org/qh2x #UrbanEntangledAreas
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This engagement urges readers to rethink Southeast Asian studies by delving into how #SoutheastAsia as an #area emerged through & is shaped by the colonial logic of #EconomicGeology 👀@karib.13 & D. Listiana: doi.org/qh2v #GeoColonialAssemblages #EntangledAreas
Color drawing of traditional gold smelters in Borneo in the mid 19th century. Depiction by Dutch colonial geologist Carl Anton L. M. Schwaner, 1853. Image in the public domain: https://bit.ly/3Mhaxrj.

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This engagement urges readers to rethink Southeast Asian studies by delving into how #SoutheastAsia as an #area emerged through & is shaped by the colonial logic of #EconomicGeology 👀@karib.13 & D. Listiana: doi.org/qh2v #GeoColonialAssemblages #EntangledAreas
Color drawing of traditional gold smelters in Borneo in the mid 19th century. Depiction by Dutch colonial geologist Carl Anton L. M. Schwaner, 1853. Image in the public domain: https://bit.ly/3Mhaxrj.

ALT Color drawing of traditional gold smelters in Borneo in the mid 19th century. Depiction by Dutch colonial geologist Carl Anton L. M. Schwaner, 1853. Image in the public domain: https://bit.ly/3Mhaxrj.

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How can rising fine-dust pollution in #Zomia signal how this historically autonomous highland region of #SoutheastAsia is being transformed by new forms of #EnvironmentalExploitation? 👀Read by @jonanthro: doi.org/qh2t #Anthropocene #Atmosphere #Dust #EntangledAreas
Photograph of a mountainous landscape in Nepal. By Tobias Federle under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/4pcslCP.

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How do #Indonesia’s #tsunami-warning systems mediate social + environmental life, shaping and interconnecting imagined spaces and the meanings different groups attach to them? 👀 Read Irina Rafliana's engagement: doi.org/qhwf #EntangledAreas #SoutheastAsia
Snapshot of the modelling of a tsunami scenario. By Sven Harig, Antonia Immerz, Weniza, Jonathan Griffin, et al., 2020: http://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-019-02305-1.

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How can the idea of #buoyancy help question the hype around #FloatingCities amid the rapid submergence of #SoutheastAsia’s coastlines? 👀Read @rsiriw & M. S. C. Gemilang: doi.org/qhrh #CoastCities #UrbanJustice #CoastalAdaptation #UrbanAnthropology
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How can the idea of #buoyancy help question the hype around #FloatingCities amid the rapid submergence of #SoutheastAsia’s coastlines? 👀Read @rsiriw & M. S. C. Gemilang: doi.org/qhrh #CoastCities #UrbanJustice #CoastalAdaptation #UrbanAnthropology
Photograph by the authors of the article of a building partially under water.

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In this #collaborative engagement, Zahirah, Klein, Bogart, Keller, Huang & Gutierrez explore the potential of #sediments in #CoastalEnvironments for rethinking the #entanglements of history, policy + national #developmentalism in #SoutheastAsia 👀 doi.org/qhcm
Piles of soil at the interface of a road and a water body. Photograph by the authors.

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How can the concept of #entanglement help to think anew about #areas & #SoutheastAsia in the #Anthropocene? What new #STS reflections does it open up to? 👀@[email protected] + F. Thufail's intro of their thematic collection "Entangled Areas": doi.org/qg64
Photograph of winding tree branches. By Lance Grandahl, available under a Free Unsplash License: https://bit.ly/4813Jqo.

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The Society for Social Studies of Science is hiring a Website Coordinator (10h per week / 1 year contract) here: 4sonline.org/news_manager.ph…
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Can the scientific practice of #KnowingMicrobes rely on inquiry and interdependence instead of control? Read the study by @heymayahey on fermentation as an #epistemic practice in a #sake #brewery in #Japan: doi.org/pzvq #makingspaceforMicrobes
Photograph of Sake being poured into decorative wedding cups. By Frederick Shaw under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/3IvgQFT

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Images play a crucial role in mediating the relationship between #microbes & humans at the interface of science+society 👀Whiteley Nygaard & Glerup on human agency in the depiction of the relation between #microbiome & #mind: doi.org/pzvn #scienceinculture #scicomm
A collage of 5 hand-drawn and computer-generated illustrations depicting the relation between the human gut and brain. Collage by the authors. Credits of individual images, from top left to bottom right (licenses purchased by the authors): (i) Chombosan on iStock by Getty Images, 2023 (ii) Dave Cutler, 2015 (iii) Steven. Adobe Stock, 2020 (iv) Biocodex Microbiota Institute, 2017 (v) Anna Bergbauer on www.dreamstime.com, last accessed, 2025.

ALT A collage of 5 hand-drawn and computer-generated illustrations depicting the relation between the human gut and brain. Collage by the authors. Credits of individual images, from top left to bottom right (licenses purchased by the authors): (i) Chombosan on iStock by Getty Images, 2023 (ii) Dave Cutler, 2015 (iii) Steven. Adobe Stock, 2020 (iv) Biocodex Microbiota Institute, 2017 (v) Anna Bergbauer on www.dreamstime.com, last accessed, 2025.

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