Rat Tech : Transforming Rodents into Technology in Tanzania

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Lee, Jia Hui:
Rat Tech : Transforming Rodents into Technology in Tanzania.
In: Arcadia. (2021) Heft 5 .
ISSN 2199-3408
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9214

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Abstract

Envirotechnical analyses have seldom considered those systems, tools, and techniques for transforming nature that are also living organisms. What insights could model organisms, sniffer dogs, and sentinel species raise when considered as technologies? To suggest some answers, I consider an international NGO project in Morogoro, Tanzania, where a group of people train African giant pouched rats (Cricetomys ansorgei) in order to transform them into sensing technologies for detecting landmines.