ANT100Y1 Study Guide - Tangled, Ethnography, High Tech

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: James Stinson

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#1 bruce braun - environmental issues: global natures in the space of assemblage: introduction. Cities are best seen as polyrhythmic" assemblages composed of multiple networks stretched across space and time in which humans and nonhumans are inextricably entangled. Nature is now commonly asserted, is inextricably social, even as it cannot be reduced to the actions of humans alone. Global is an effect, not a condition; and uneven rather than uniform, it is best understood in terms of specific connections and encounters that work across and through difference global natures are always specific. Emphasis lies on the word assemblage, so as to stress the making of socio- natures whose intricate geographies form tangled webs of different length, density and duration, and whose consequences are experienced differently in different places. Con gurations of global nature today emerge as conjunctural effects of all of these: the political-economic, the techno-scienti c and the ethical-political: tracing socio-ecological networks: the nature of commodities.