Andrea Ballestero, "A Future History of Water" (Duke UP, 2019)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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The Multi-Sidedness of the Field
Anthropology relies on this idea of the field and the geographical side. So if i was interested in understanding how regulators set the price of water, then i followed them in different locations where they did that work. And so if we think about multi sidedness, we can't trace the very specific sights, locations, offices, desks and people. This is important to me because it also domystifies, in a way, the work that experts and even activists do. The second part of that passage speaks to the ways in which that work and those locations are made sense of. So what is the significance of what they are doing in those tiny, small, everyday acts?
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