Article ID: CBB094400545

Toxic remains: Infrastructural failure in a Ugandan molecular biology lab (October 2021)

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This article complicates romances of infrastructural improvisation by describing infrastructural failures that expose researchers to hazardous chemicals in a Ugandan molecular biology lab. To meet project deadlines, to make careers and to participate in transnational collaborative projects, Ugandan biologists have to stand in for decaying or absent infrastructures with their bodies. Ugandan biologists hide such sacrifices from their international scientific partners and direct the blame elsewhere. An unclear culpability results precisely from the ways in which power works and is distributed across transnational scientific infrastructures.

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Authors & Contributors
Lin, Wen-yuan
Siri Lamoureaux
Harsh, Matthew
Sandra Calkins
David Dumoulin Kervran
Zwart, Sjoerd
Concepts
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Postcolonialism
Research
Laboratories
Medicine
Global south
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
Places
Uganda
Africa
Australia
Taiwan
Thailand
Kenya
Institutions
NTU Institute of Science and Technology for Humanity
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