Toxic remains: Infrastructural failure in a Ugandan molecular biology lab

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Calkins, Sandra:
Toxic remains: Infrastructural failure in a Ugandan molecular biology lab.
In: Social Studies of Science. Vol. 51 (2021) Issue 5 . - pp. 707-728.
ISSN 1460-3659
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/03063127211011531

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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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Item Type:	Article in a journal
Refereed:	Yes
Institutions of the University:	Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Professor Social and Cultural Anthropology with a Focus on Africa Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Chair Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie mit Fokus Afrika > Chair Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie mit Fokus Afrika - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sandra Calkins Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Chair Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie mit Fokus Afrika
Result of work at the UBT:	No
DDC Subjects:	300 Social sciences > 300 Social sciences, sociology and anthropology
Date Deposited:	26 Mar 2025 08:51
Last Modified:	14 May 2025 09:54
URI:	https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/92965