Article ID: CBB276214571

Looking for the Cosmopolitical Fish: Monitoring Marine Pollution with Anglers and Congers in the Gulf of Fos, Southern France (2019)

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Gramaglia, Christelle (Author)
Mélard, François (Author)


Science, Technology and Human Values
Volume: 44
Issue: 5
Pages: 814-842


Publication Date: 2019
Edition Details: Special Issue: Sensors and Sensing Practices
Language: English

Following a controversy over the construction of a waste incinerator in the Fos-sur-Mer industrial area (France), residents pointed to the lack of knowledge of the industry’s cumulative impact on their health and environment. Under pressure, some of their elected representatives supported the creation of an independent scientific organization, the Ecocitizen Institute for Pollution Awareness (Institut écocitoyen pour la connaissance des pollutions [IECP]). Its objective was to conduct localized scientific research on the effects of pollution and to lobby the administration to change its regulatory practices. This paper examines the efforts made to ensure that the “undone science” gets done, by focusing on the specificities of this industrialized site. We look at a participatory biomonitoring experiment that aimed to document pollution in the Gulf of Fos where scientists working for the IECP accepted anglers’ requests and switched from an acknowledged sentinel species to another species. We tell the many stories that were shared with us about how conger qualified as a more suitable “cosmopolitical fish” in the study of pollution. Elaborating on actor–network theory and multispecies ethnographies, we discuss the appropriateness of congers as the newly appointed sentinel species. We argue that this demonstrates the importance of the “ecology of relations” in maintaining the livability of the area.

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Article Jennifer Gabrys (2019) Sensors and Sensing Practices: Reworking Experience across Entities, Environments, and Technologies. Science, Technology and Human Values (pp. 723-736). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Kasperowski, Dick
Jeon, June
Tironi, Manuel
Kimura, Aya Hirata
Sarah Blacker
Donovan, Joan
Concepts
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Citizen science; community science
Ethnography
Actor-network theory
Pollution
Governance
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
Places
France
Amazon River Region (South America)
East Asia
Puerto Rico
United States
Sweden
Institutions
Galaxy Zoo
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