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Extending the Cosmopolitical Right to Non-Humans

2013, Valuation Studies

https://doi.org/10.3384/VS.2001-5992.142165

Abstract

This short essay is a review of Bruno Latour's An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns (Harvard University Press, 2013) and a commentary on the wider move that accompanies the book.

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  10. Helen Verran researches in anthropology, philosophy, and sociology of science and technology. She is reader (emeritus) in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne where she taught for twenty five years, and adjunct professor at the Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University in Australia. The author of prize-winning Science and an African Logic (Chicago University Press 2001), Helen Verran studies, among other topics, how practitioners of disparate knowledge traditions produce numbers and work with them.