The Social Life of Standards is out!
June 2021– The Social Life of Standards: Ethnographic methods for local engagement has been published by UBC Press. The edited volume is the culmination of a CIHR funded project on standards and standardization.
The book provides a framework to think about how standards are created, resisted, and re-developed by communities. It includes many ethnographic case studies; from stem-cell and protemics labs, through ebola crisis, to indigenous environmental and child welfares cases.
It was a privilege to think through what standards meant with talented folks working in many different areas. The book has been featured on a recent Queensland University of Technology blog
We celebrated the book’s coming out as part of a CASCA 2021 panel:
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Co-editor Dr. Janice Graham, Free book draw winner: Dr. Pauline McKenzie Aucoin, co-editor Dr. Regna Darnell, contributor Dr. Ian Puppe, co-editor Dr. Christina Holmes, and contributor Dr. Udo Krautwurst
Presenting our work on COVID-19 at CASCA 2021
May 2021 – At CASCA 2021 Christina Holmes presented the joint research that she, Udo Krautwurst, and two StFX students, Kate Graham and Victoria Fernandez wrote on how the science was discussed by public health officials and journalists during the first wave of COVID-19.
Anthropologica Paper
May 2021 – The paper that Christina Holmes,Udo Krautwurst, Kate Graham, and Victoria Fernandez co-wrote has recently been published in Anthropologica’s (the journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society) first open access issue, which includes a thematic section on Giving Shape to COVID-19. Our paper is entitled ” No Silver bullet Solution: Cruel Optimism and and Canada’s COVID – 19 Public Health Messages”.
Student Research Day 2021
March 2021 – Kate Graham and Victoria Fernandez presented this research at St. FX’s Student Research Day.
Christina Holmes 