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Emotional Engineering, Vol. 8: Emotion in the Emerging World
by Shuichi FukudaThis book is focused on the importance of detecting people’s motivation, how they make decisions and the way the actions they take is rapidly increasing with the progress of IoT and the Connected Society. It explores how emotion-related processes are increasing in importance rapidly. The contributors move through a variety of related topics, all aimed at revealing how humans and things must increasingly interact. It indicates how strategy becomes increasingly important, particularly creating the best adaptable strategy to respond to the quickly and extensively changing situations. With engineering quickly moving from product development to experience development, and the role of emotion in engineering becoming increasingly apparent, this book offers a timely and valuable resource for engineers and researchers alike.
Emotional Engineering, Vol. 9: Move Ahead Toward Self-Satisfying Society (SSS)
by Shuichi FukudaThis is the latest volume in the series of Springer titles on emotional engineering tracking the development of this field.Engineering has been based on the Euclidean space approach and it was numerical data-centric. In short, our engineering up to now has been control-based, i.e., on tactics and problem solving. When we realize AI consumes 10,000 times more energy than human brain, we understand how it is better to use 10,000 people’s minds. But current society is industrial society. The industrial revolution introduced division of labour and we started to work for others. But the tremendous consumption of energy indicates that we need to move toward another society. If we can make the next society a self-Satisfying society (SSS) and create a new sustainable society with greater mental wellbeing then many emerging problems will be solved and we can enjoy our lives better. Emotional engineering engages with this challenge.
Emotional Engineering, Vol.10: Emotional Engineering as a Culture for 22nd Century Civilisation
by Shuichi FukudaThis book is the latest volume in the series of Springer titles on emotional engineering, tracking the development of this field. In our society, "Culture" emerges at the dawn of each era, laying the foundation for the development of "Civilization," which is then passed on to the succeeding era. "Culture" embodies the timeless essence of human characteristics, transcending temporal and spatial boundaries, encompassing the visionary pursuit of the future and the relentless quest for self-realization. Both "Motivation" and "Emotion" stem from the Latin word Movere, denoting movement. Why do we, as living beings, bear the epithet "Creatures"? It is because we instigate movement to thrive. Unlike other animals, who move merely to subsist in the present, humans navigate life with an eye toward tomorrow. "Emotion” etymologically signifies "to move out" in Latin, implying the act of manifesting one's inner realm in the external world. However, as denoted by the term "VUCA" (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity, our society is rapidly evolving into a realm of increasing complexity and diversity, transitioning from the tangible to the intangible. While the tangible realm necessitates interaction, the evolving landscape calls for the intervention of technology. Technology delves into the realm of "How." Yet, "Culture" resides in the emotional domain, pondering "What" and "Why,", as does Engineering. The "Process" of daring to transform dreams into reality assumes paramount significance. History admonishes us that now is the opportune moment to forge a novel "Civilization" for the twenty-second century. Let us harness the power of Emotional Engineering to sculpt the twenty-second century "Civilization" into its best iteration. This book of collected chapters sums up this challenge and how we can meet it.
Emotional Engineering, Vol.5
by Shuichi FukudaThis book provides a review of the latest research on emotion in engineering, with a particular focus on design and manufacturing. Topics include experience, happiness, cognitive science, neuroscience, additive manufacturing, universal design, branding, teamwork. Throughout the book, the emotions of the end users of engineering products are discussed, as well as the perspective of the expert. The book provides researchers, students, and practicing engineers with an opportunity to examine research and practice in engineering from a different perspective, and offers pointers to how to collaborate with people from other fields to help achieve a more connected society.
Emotional Engineering, Vol.7: The Age of Communication
by Shuichi FukudaThis book demonstrates that emotion is a highly influential component in creating a new society and new engineering, revealing the importance of emotion in various aspects of the Connected World. It addresses a wide variety of topics, but with this one underlying aim throughout. Further, it stands out for the approach it takes to the Internet of Things and the Connected Society. The contributing authors illustrate that humans are essentially either playmakers or playing managers, with teamwork and play being crucial aspects of our lives. They argue that strategy is becoming increasingly important, and consider the most adaptable strategy, one that will allow us to respond to today’s quickly and radically changing situations. The book is particularly focused on the Connected Society as the point of departure, and explores what motivates humans, what decisions they should make, and what actions they should take. With engineering quickly moving from product development to experience development, and the role of emotion in engineering becoming increasingly apparent, this book offers a timely and valuable resource for engineers and researchers alike.
Emotional Feedback for Mobile Devices
by Julia SeebodeThis book investigates the functional adequacy as well as the affective impression made by feedback messages on mobile devices. It presents an easily adoptable experimental setup to examine context effects on various feedback messages and applies it to auditory, tactile and auditory-tactile feedback messages. This approach provides insights into the relationship between the affective impression and functional applicability of these messages as well as an understanding of the influence of unimodal components on the perception of multimodal feedback messages. The developed paradigm can also be extended to investigate other aspects of context and used to investigate feedback messages in modalities other than those presented. The book uses questionnaires implemented on a Smartphone, which can easily be adopted for field studies to broaden the scope even wider. Finally, the book offers guidelines for the design of system feedback.
Emotional Intelligence and Neuro-Linguistic Programming: New Insights for Managers and Engineers (Manufacturing Design and Technology)
The development of a new book about Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and the challenges to managers and engineers is essential because it introduces new lines of research in management and production. The use of EI and NLP allows management to take a more strategic role in organisations. There is a growing importance of sophisticated analysis for managers to support decision making, to use emotional information in order to guide thinking and behaviour, as well as to manage emotions to adapt environments and achieve the organisation's goals. This book addresses several dimensions of EI and NLP and its impact in business and organisation competitiveness. Features Focuses on the latest research findings that are occurring in this field all over the world Shows in what ways companies around the world are facing today's EI and NLP challenges Presents knowledge and insights on an international scale Assists researchers and practitioners in selecting among the different options and strategies, the more relevant priorities to managing competitive organisations Offers the latest developments in the field and of forthcoming international studies
Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services
by Marko Tkalčič Berardina De Carolis Marco De Gemmis Ante Odić Andrej KoširPersonalization is ubiquitous from search engines to online-shopping websites helping us find content more efficiently and this book focuses on the key developments that are shaping our daily online experiences. With advances in the detection of end users' emotions, personality, sentiment and social signals, researchers and practitioners now have the tools to build a new generation of personalized systems that will really understand the user's state and deliver the right content. With leading experts from a vast array of domains from user modeling, mobile sensing and information retrieval to artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction (HCI) social computing and psychology, a broad spectrum of topics are covered. From discussing psychological theoretical models and exploring state-of-the-art methods for acquiring emotions and personality in an unobtrusive way, as well as describing how these concepts can be used to improve various aspects of the personalization process and chapters that discuss evaluation and privacy issues. Emotions and Personality in Personalized Systems will help aid researchers and practitioners develop and evaluate user-centric personalization systems that take into account the factors that have a tremendous impact on our decision-making - emotions and personality.
Emotions, Technology, and Digital Games (Emotions and Technology)
by Sharon Tettegah Wen-Hao HuangEmotions, Technology, and Digital Games explores the need for people to experience enjoyment, excitement, anxiety, anger, frustration, and many other emotions. The book provides essential information on why it is necessary to have a greater understanding of the power these emotions have on players, and how they affect players during, and after, a game. <p><p> This book takes this understanding and shows how it can be used in practical ways, including the design of video games for teaching and learning, creating tools to measure social and emotional development of children, determining how empathy-related thought processes affect ethical decision-making, and examining how the fictional world of game play can influence and shape real-life experiences. <p><p> • Details how games affect emotions—both during and after play <p>• Describes how we can manage a player’s affective reactions <p>• Applies the emotional affect to making games more immersive <p>• Examines game-based learning and education <p>• Identifies which components of online games support socio-emotional development <p>• Discusses the impact of game-based emotions beyond the context of games
Empfehlung Oberflächennahe Geothermie: Planung, Bau, Betrieb und Überwachung - EA Geothermie
by AaaThe aim of the Recommendations is the technically correct exploitation of the subsoil for geothermal purposes. It should be of assistance in avoiding impairment of soil and groundwater during the operation of the plant and buildings.
Empfehlungen des Arbeitsausschusses "Ufereinfassungen" Häfen und Wasserstraßen EAU 2020
by HTGDie 12. Auflage der "EAU 2020" beinhaltet eine inhaltliche Straffung und Neustrukturierung der Empfehlungen mit dem Ziel einer verbesserten und verständlicheren Kapitelstruktur. Außerdem wurden die seit dem Erscheinen der 11. Ausgabe der Empfehlungen des Arbeitsausschusses "Ufereinfassungen" veröffentlichten Technischen Jahresberichte in die Empfehlungen eingearbeitet. Die Empfehlungen berücksichtigen weiterhin die neue Normengeneration, bestehend aus Eurocode 7, zugehörigen nationalen Anwendungsdokumenten und ergänzenden nationalen Regelungen (DIN 1054:2010). In Einzelfällen werden Teilsicherheitsbeiwerte aufgrund von Praxiserfahrungen abweichend festgelegt. Der Sicherheitsstandard der See- und Hafenbauwerke bleibt somit erhalten, die Empfehlungen genügen weiterhin dem Anspruch auf internationale Anerkennung und Anwendung bei Planung, Entwurf, Ausschreibung, Vergabe, Baudurchführung und Überwachung sowie bei Abnahme und Abrechnung von Hafen- und Wasserstraßenanlagen nach einheitlichen Gesichtspunkten.
Empfehlungen des Arbeitskreises "Baugruben" (EAB)
by Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geotechnik e. V.Mit der Herausgabe der Empfehlungen, die normenähnlichen Charakter haben, unterstützt der Arbeitskreis "Baugruben" der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geotechnik e.V. (DGGT) die Planungspraxis bei Entwurf und Berechnung von Baugrubenumschließungen. Alle Empfehlungen wurden gegenüber der vorherigen 5. Auflage gründlich überprüft, soweit erforderlich überarbeitet und an neue Erkenntnisse angepasst. Wesentlich geändert wurden die Erfahrungswerte für Mantelreibung und Spitzendruck von Spundwänden und Trägerbohlwänden. Das Kapitel "Baugruben in weichen Böden" konnte erheblich gestrafft werden. Einem dringenden Bedürfnis der Praxis folgend wurde zudem ein völlig neues Kapitel "Unterfangungen" als Baugrubensicherung erarbeitet. Die Empfehlungen des Arbeitskreises "Baugruben" sollen helfen, - Entwurf und Berechnung von Baugrubenumschließungen zu erleichtern, - Lastansätze und Berechnungsverfahren zu vereinheitlichen, - die Standsicherheit der Baugrubenkonstruktionen und ihrer Einzelteile sicherzustellen und - die Wirtschaftlichkeit der Baugrubenkonstruktionen zu verbessern.
Empfehlungen des Arbeitskreises "Baugruben" (EAB)
by EabMit der Herausgabe der Empfehlungen, die normenähnlichen Charakter haben, unterstützt der Arbeitskreis „Baugruben“ der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geotechnik e.V. (DGGT) die Planungspraxis bei Entwurf und Berechnung von Baugrubenumschließungen. Zur bauaufsichtlichen Einführung der Eurocodes wurde eine Anpassung der 4. Aufl age der Empfehlungen an die Vorgaben der DIN EN 1997-1:2009 in Verbindung mit dem Nationalen Anhang DIN 1997-1/NA:2010-12 und den ergänzenden Regelungen der DIN 1054:2010-12 erforderlich. Alle Empfehlungen wurden gründlich überprüft, soweit erforderlich überarbeitet und an neue Erkenntnisse angepasst. Wesentlich überarbeitet wurde Kapitel 10 „Baugruben im Wasser“. Aufgrund der fortgeschrittenen Entwicklung in der Messtechnik und den gestiegenen Anforderungen wurde Kapitel 14 „Messtechnische Überprüfung und Überwachung von Baugrubenkonstruktionen“ völlig neu formuliert. Die Empfehlungen des Arbeitskreises „Baugruben“ sollen helfen, • Entwurf und Berechnung von Baugrubenumschließungen zu erleichtern, • Lastansätze und Berechnungsverfahren zu vereinheitlichen, • die Standsicherheit der Baugrubenkonstruktionen und ihrer Einzelteile sicherzustellen und • die Wirtschaftlichkeit der Baugrubenkonstruktionen zu verbessern.
Empfehlungen des Arbeitskreises "Baugrunddynamik"
by Deutschen Gesellschaft Füx Geotechnik E. V.Die in dem Sammelband "Empfehlungen des Arbeitskreises 1.4 Baugrunddynamik" der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geotechnik e.V. (DGGT) zusammengefassten Empfehlungen haben das Ziel, das Vorgehen bei baugrunddynamischen Aufgaben zu vereinheitlichen. Ferner geben Sie Hinweise, wie durch angemessene baugrunddynamische Untersuchungen die Beeinträchtigung von Einrichtungen, Schäden an Bauwerken und Anlagen sowie störende Umwelteinwirkungen auf Menschen und Geräte vermieden werden können. Die vorliegenden Empfehlungen stellen den neuesten Stand von Wissenschaft und Technik auf dem Gebiet der Baugrunddynamik dar. Sie beruhen auf gesicherten Erkenntnissen, die einen empirischen Nachweis einschließen, d. h. es liegen für diese Empfehlungen auch praktische Erprobungen vor. Sie sind daher Bestandteil der "allgemein anerkannten Regeln der Technik". Für die vorliegende zweite Ausgabe wurden die Empfehlungen erneut umfangreich überarbeitet und um zwei Teile ergänzt.
Empfehlungen des Arbeitskreises "Numerik in der Geotechnik" - EANG
by Deutsche GesellThe book collects almost all the recommendations issued so far by the DGGT working group "Numerical analysis in geotechnology" in one work. For the collected publication, the recommendations have been matched, updated and in many aspects supplemented and completed.
Empfehlungen des Arbeitskreises Geomesstechnik
by Deutsche Gesellschaft für GeotechnikMesstechnische Überwachungen von Bauprojekten haben in den letzten Jahren hinsichtlich Methoden und Techniken eine intensive Weiterentwicklung durchlaufen. Die Geomesstechnik, als interdisziplinäres Zusammenwirken von Geotechnik und Ingenieurgeodäsie, trägt in zunehmendem Maß zur Lösung geotechnischer Fragestellungen mithilfe messtechnischer Methoden bei. In der Baupraxis sind geotechnische und geodätische Überwachungsmessverfahren in vielfacher Weise zusammengewachsen und auch die normativen Regelungen, zum Beispiel zur Beobachtungsmethode und dem Qualitätsmanagement, haben zur wachsenden Bedeutung der Geomesstechnik beigetragen. Den Grundüberlegungen zur Geomesstechnik und zur Zielsetzung geotechnischer Messungen entsprechend folgt der Aufbau dieser Empfehlungen dem strukturiert sinnvollen Vorgehen des Planungsprozesses bei einer projektspezifischen Messaufgabe: Ausgehend von Überlegungen zu den zu erfassenden Messgrößen und den zur Erfassung dieser Messgrößen einzusetzenden Messsystemen und -verfahren werden das Datenmanagement, also Aspekte der Datenerfassung, -übertragung und -sicherung sowie die Datenauswertung, also der Prozess der Datenaufbereitung, -analyse und Visualisierung behandelt. Die grundsätzlichen bzw. anwendungsspezifischen Empfehlungen zur Erstellung von Messprogrammen werden durch Fallbeispiele, die best practice-Anwendungen zeigen, verdeutlicht. Auch Aspekte der Qualitätssicherung sowie vertragliche Rahmenbedingungen werden angesprochen. In der Summe bekommt damit der Anwender einen Leitfaden an die Hand, der alle wesentlichen Aspekte der Geomesstechnik nach dem Stand der Technik im Detail behandelt.
Empfehlungen des Arbeitskreises Versuchstechnik Fels
by Deutsche Gesellschaft für GeotechnikDer Arbeitskreis AK 3.3 "Versuchstechnik Fels" der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geotechnik e. V. erarbeitet Empfehlungen für felsmechanische Labor- und Feldversuche sowie Messungen im Gebirge und an geotechnischen Bauwerken. Das vorliegende Buch fasst die bisher erschienenen 25 Empfehlungen des Arbeitskreises zusammen und bietet damit eine Arbeitshilfe für alle, die sich mit der Beprobung, Versuchsdurchführung, Auswertung und Interpretation der Eigenschaften von Festgesteinen befassen.
Empfehlungen für den Entwurf und die Berechnung von Erdkörpern mit Bewehrungen aus Geokunststoffen (EBGEO)
by Herausgegeben Von Der Deutschen Gesellschaft für GeotechnikThe Recommendations deal with the basics of performing verifications and the application of geotextiles for the reinforcement of various foundation systems and ground improvement measures, in road construction, for slopes and retaining structures and in landfill operation.
Empfehlungen zu Dichtungssystemen im Tunnelbau EAG-EDT
by Deutsche Gesellschaft für GeowissenDie Empfehlungen dokumentieren den Stand der Technik in der Bemessung, Auswahl, Anwendung und Prüfung von Geokunststoffen im Tunnelbau und sind vom Arbeitskreis AK 5.1 "Kunststoffe in der Geotechnik und im Wasserbau" der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geotechnik e.V. (DGGT) erstellt worden.Das Buch behandelt Dichtungssysteme mit Kunststoffdichtungsbahnen für Tunnel in geschlossener und offener Bauweise sowie für sonstige unterirdische Bauwerke und dient als Leitfaden für Bauherren, Planer und Ausführende. Entwicklungen in relevanten Regelwerken und Normen, Projekterfahrungen sowie Weiterentwicklungen und anwendungsbezogene Forschungserkenntnisse seit Erscheinen der ersten Auflage im Jahr 2005 wurden in diese 2. Auflage der "Empfehlungen zu Dichtungssystemen im Tunnelbau EAG-EDT" eingearbeitet. Fallbeispiele ergänzen die Ausführungen.
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
by Karen HaoAn Instant New York Times Bestseller&“Excellent and deeply reported.&” —Tim Wu, The New York Times&“Startling and intensely researched . . . an essential account of how OpenAI and ChatGPT came to be and the catastrophic places they will likely take us.&” —Vulture&“Hao&’s reporting inside OpenAI is exceptional, and she&’s persuasive in her argument that the public should focus less on A.I.&’s putative &‘sentience&’ and more on its implications for labor and the environment.&” —Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New YorkerFrom a brilliant longtime AI insider with intimate access to the world of Sam Altman's OpenAI from the beginning, an eye-opening account of arguably the most fateful tech arms race in history, reshaping the planet in real time, from the cockpit of the company that is driving the frenzyWhen AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, the organization was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely mercantile, and potentially dangerous, forces. What could go wrong?Over time, Hao began to wrestle ever more deeply with that question. Increasingly, she realized that the core truth of this massively disruptive sector is that its vision of success requires an almost unprecedented amount of resources: the &“compute&” power of high-end chips and the processing capacity to create massive large language models, the sheer volume of data that needs to be amassed at scale, the humans &“cleaning up&” that data for sweatshop wages throughout the Global South, and a truly alarming spike in the usage of energy and water underlying it all. The truth is that we have entered a new and ominous age of empire: only a small handful of globally scaled companies can even enter the field of play. At the head of the pack with its ChatGPT breakthrough, how would OpenAI resist such temptations?Spoiler alert: it didn&’t. Armed with Microsoft&’s billions, OpenAI is setting a breakneck pace, chased by a small group of the most valuable companies in human history—toward what end, not even they can define. All this time, Hao has maintained her deep sourcing within the company and the industry, and so she was in intimate contact with the story that shocked the entire tech industry—Altman&’s sudden firing and triumphant return. The behind-the-scenes story of what happened, told here in full for the first time, is revelatory of who the people controlling this technology really are. But this isn&’t just the story of a single company, however fascinating it is. The g forces pressing down on the people of OpenAI are deforming the judgment of everyone else too—as such forces do. Naked power finds the ideology to cloak itself; no one thinks they&’re the bad guy. But in the meantime, as Hao shows through intrepid reporting on the ground around the world, the enormous wheels of extraction grind on. By drawing on the viewpoints of Silicon Valley engineers, Kenyan data laborers, and Chilean water activists, Hao presents the fullest picture of AI and its impact we&’ve seen to date, alongside a trenchant analysis of where things are headed. An astonishing eyewitness view from both up in the command capsule of the new economy and down where the real suffering happens, Empire of AI pierces the veil of the industry defining our era.
Empire of Water: An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply
by David SollSupplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. As David Soll shows in his finely observed history of the nation's largest municipal water system, the task of providing water to New Yorkers transformed the natural and built environment of the city, its suburbs, and distant rural watersheds. Almost as soon as New York City completed its first municipal water system in 1842, it began to expand the network, eventually reaching far into the Catskill Mountains, more than one hundred miles from the city. Empire of Water explores the history of New York City's water system from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century, focusing on the geographical, environmental, and political repercussions of the city's search for more water.Soll vividly recounts the profound environmental implications for both city and countryside. Some of the region's most prominent landmarks, such as the High Bridge across the Harlem River, Central Park's Great Lawn, and the Ashokan Reservoir in Ulster County, have their origins in the city's water system. By tracing the evolution of the city's water conservation efforts and watershed management regime, Soll reveals the tremendous shifts in environmental practices and consciousness that occurred during the twentieth century. Few episodes better capture the long-standing upstate-downstate divide in New York than the story of how mountain water came to flow from spigots in Brooklyn and Manhattan.Soll concludes by focusing on the landmark watershed protection agreement signed in 1997 between the city, watershed residents, environmental organizations, and the state and federal governments. After decades of rancor between the city and Catskill residents, the two sides set aside their differences to forge a new model of environmental stewardship. His account of this unlikely environmental success story offers a behind the scenes perspective on the nation's most ambitious and wide-ranging watershed protection program.
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
by Tom LewisEmpire of the Air is a history of radio in the United States. It tells the almost-unknown story of three American visionaries--scientist Lee de Forest, brilliant recluse Edwin H. Armstrong, and RCA mogul David Sarnoff--whose imagination and dreams turned a hobbyists' toy into radio, launching the modern communication age. It is a tale of pioneers on the frontier of a new technology, of American entrepreneurial spirit, and of the tragic collision between the lone inventor and the large corporation. Court cases would decide whose legacy would reign supreme. A magnificently researched biography of extraordinary men whose achievements changed our lives forever.
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
by Tom LewisEmpire of the Air tells the story of three American visionaries—Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff—whose imagination and dreams turned a hobbyist's toy into radio, launching the modern communications age. Tom Lewis weaves the story of these men and their achievements into a richly detailed and moving narrative that spans the first half of the twentieth century, a time when the American romance with science and technology was at its peak. Empire of the Air is a tale of pioneers on the frontier of a new technology, of American entrepreneurial spirit, and of the tragic collision between inventor and corporation.
Empire of the Sum: The Rise And Reign Of The Pocket Calculator
by Keith HoustonThe hidden history of the pocket calculator—a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, and went with us to the moon—and the mathematicians, designers, and inventors who brought it to life. Starting with hands, abacus, and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, took us to the bottom of the ocean, and accompanied us to the moon. The pocket calculator changed our world, until it was supplanted by more modern devices that, in a cruel twist of irony, it helped to create. The calculator is dead; long live the calculator. In this witty mathematic and social history, Keith Houston transports readers from the nascent economies of the ancient world to World War II, where a Jewish engineer calculated for his life at Buchenwald, and into the technological arms race that led to the first affordable electronic pocket calculators. At every turn, Houston is a scholarly, affable guide to this global history of invention. Empire of the Sum will appeal to math lovers, history buffs, and anyone seeking to understand our trajectory to the computer age.
Empire, Colonialism, and the Human Sciences: Troubling Encounters in the Americas and Pacific
by Adam Warren Julia E. Rodriguez Stephen T. CasperIn this bold reconsideration of the human sciences, an interdisciplinary team employ an expanded theoretical and geographical critical lens centering the notion of the encounter. Drawing insights from Indigenous and Latin American Studies, nine case studies delve into the dynamics of encounters between researchers, intermediaries, and research subjects in imperial and colonial contexts across the Americas and Pacific. Essays explore ethical considerations and knowledge production practices that prevailed in field and expedition science, custodial institutions, and governance debates. They reevaluate how individuals and communities subjected to research projects embraced, critiqued, or subverted them. Often, research subjects expressed their own aspirations, asserted sovereignty or autonomy, and exercised forms of power through interactions or acts of refusal. This book signals the transformative potential of Indigenous Studies and Latin American Studies for shaping future scholarship on the history of the human sciences. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.