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Lee, Jia Hui:
Rat Tech : Transforming Rodents into Technology in Tanzania.
In: Arcadia.
(2021)
Issue 5
.
ISSN 2199-3408
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9214
Project information
| Project title: |
Project's official title Project's id Smelling Danger: Training Rats and Modeling Environments for Landmine Detection in Tanzania and Cambodia 9465 |
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| Project financing: |
Wenner-Gren Foundation |
Abstract in another language
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.
Further data
| Item Type: | Article in a journal |
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| Refereed: | Yes |
| Keywords: | multispecies; military; environmental knowledge; envirotech; technology |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Junior Professor Science and Technology Studies of the Global South > Junior Professor Science and Technology Studies of the Global South - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jia Hui Lee Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Junior Professor Science and Technology Studies of the Global South |
| Result of work at the UBT: | No |
| DDC Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 300 Social sciences, sociology and anthropology 600 Technology, medicine, applied sciences > 600 Technology |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jul 2023 07:40 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Aug 2025 11:34 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/86276 |