Rat Tech: Transforming Rodents into Technology in Tanzania

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Abstract

Are animals technology? Rodent trainers in Tanzania readily think so. This suggests that thinking about rats as technology can help scholars of the environment see that nature is always being transformed through social practices that rework environmental histories.

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Jia Hui Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Jia Hui researches human-rodent encounters in Tanzania. His ongoing doctoral research focuses on practices of work, communication, and cognition among humans and other animals in the context of science and technology in the Global South. He has previously published work on sensing, decolonization, and human rights.

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2021-02-04

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2021

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Spring

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