Browsing by Author "LaFlamme, Marcel"

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    After the Addendum: Author Rights Management and/as Library Service
    (Rice University, 2017-02) LaFlamme, Marcel; Fondren Library
    This report presents the findings from a qualitative study of Rice University faculty attitudes and practices around author rights conducted by Marcel LaFlamme, a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology, during his tenure as a Fondren Fellow. This project was supervised by Shannon Kipphut-Smith, Fondren Library’s scholarly communications liaison.
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    Book review: Barnstorming the Prairies: How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest, by Jason Weems
    (Rice University, 2018) LaFlamme, Marcel; University of Nebraska Press
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    Book review: Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone
    (Rice University, 2016-11) LaFlamme, Marcel; SAGE
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    Discovering Discovery: How Researchers Find the Sources They Need
    (2011-05-18) Kolah, Debra; LaFlamme, Marcel; Segal, Jane; Krevit, Leah
    Rice University’s current discovery tool, OneSearch, will no longer be supported after 2011. A committee, the Fondren Library Resource Discovery Tools Working Group, co-chaired by Esther Crawford and Jiun Kuo, has been charged with looking at other available discovery tools and providing a recommendation to the Fondren Library Executive team on what tool, if any, should be purchased as a replacement. Fondren Library wants to be the first place where information seekers look for information. The right discovery tool could help Fondren attract and retain users seeking one-stop access to information.
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    Ep. #125 - Displacements Recap (w. Anand Pandian, Andrea Muehlebach & Marcel LaFlamme)
    (Cultures of Energy, Rice University, 2018-05-10) Boyer, Dominic (podcast host); Howe, Cymene (podcast host); Pandian, Anand; Muehlebach, Andrea; LaFlamme, Marcel
    This week’s podcast is devoted to discussing a prototype for making academic conferences less carbon intensive and more accessible to our colleagues outside the global North. Case in point is last month’s remarkably successful Displacements conference (https://displacements.jhu.edu) organized by the Society for Cultural Anthropology which broke all previous SCA records for contributions and participation because of its unique hybrid format of online screenings and in person gatherings at fifty sites across the world. Gathered together (13:18) to discuss how it all went down and what it meant are chief conference organizer Anand Pandian (Johns Hopkins), operations guru Marcel LaFlamme (Rice) and Andrea Muehlebach  (U Toronto) who organized one of the most active gatherings in Toronto. We talk about frustrations with conventional conference formats, how to create a synchronous sense of eventness across the world, the challenges of accessibility and decarbonization, whether Displacements was really more of a distributed festival and how to unlock the artistic potential in scholarship. We close with a discussion of how simple folk like our listeners could start their own Displacements-style projects for as little as a hundred bucks. The low carbon academic revolution is coming!
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    On the Problem of the Namesake
    (Rice University, 2016-02) LaFlamme, Marcel; American Anthropological Association
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    Remaking the Pilot: Unmanned Aviation and the Transformation of Work in Postagrarian North Dakota
    (2018-03-23) LaFlamme, Marcel; Boyer, Dominic
    This dissertation examines changing forms of expertise and their institutionalization as piloting becomes an activity undertaken on the ground rather than in the sky. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in and around the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota between 2010 and 2015, I show how the maturation and proliferation of unmanned aircraft or drones has precipitated changes in what it means to be a pilot that, in turn, index wider transformations in contemporary work. The forms of skill associated with operating an aircraft are revealed to be in flux, as drone pilots learn to compose environments for perception and action and to navigate new media infrastructures. Yet transindividual social forms also prove to be evolving, as the profession of piloting is riven by heterogeneous temporalities and as the hobby takes on new importance as a handler of exceptions. This dissertation seeks to push past the fascination with spatial discontinuity that marks so many responses to the drone, and to locate the elaboration of this technology in a particular, troubled place. In making sense of a coordinated, decade-long effort to position North Dakota as a center of the unmanned aviation industry, I develop an account of Plains biopolitics, a regionally specific mode of governance that aims to keep a sufficiently vital settler population in place by fostering an economic milieu in which potential outmigrants can and do choose to stay. It is, I argue, the failure of settlement that haunts Plains biopolitics, marking efforts to retain and grow the region’s (non-Native) population as at once a bid to maintain settler dominance and an expression of sublimated anxiety about settlement’s fragility.
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    Rescoping research through student-librarian collaboration: Lessons from the Fondren Fellows program
    (2018) LaFlamme, Marcel; Kipphut-Smith, Shannon; Association of College and Research Libraries
    Academic library professionals increasingly see student workers as full coparticipants in the design and delivery of library resources and services. For some librarians, this perspective grows out of a commitment to critical and feminist pedagogy,1 while for others, greater reliance on student workers in the face of flat or contracting budgets has led to the pragmatic realization that the “skills of student workers could be leveraged to advance the library in unexpected and invaluable ways.”2 This article examines how collaboration with students can take librarian-initiated research in new directions, drawing on the experiences of the coauthors (a library staff member and a graduate student) as part of the Fondren Fellows program at Rice University’s Fondren Library.
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    Research Flow: Understanding the Way Research Happens
    (2012-08) Kolah, Debra; Rivero, Monica; Ajtai, Rebecca; Focke, Amanda; LaFlamme, Marcel; Spiro, Linda; Crawford, Esther; Segal, Jane; Krevit, Leah; Meyers, Lauren; Miller, Jennifer
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    A riot, a market, a pilgrimage, a beating: aerial photography and anthropological method
    (Rice University, 2013) LaFlamme, Marcel
    Aerial photography has, not without justification, been linked to projects of violence and domination. Yet recent scholarship in visual studies has called for an attention to the actual practices whereby aerial photographs are produced and put to use. This essay traces the history of aerial photography as a field method in cultural anthropology, highlighting the plural, deeply contextual nature of its applications. The essay concludes by sketching out three genres of aerial photography that are relevant to the anthropological project today, modes of seeing that harness the potential of technology while avoiding the totalizing logic of panopticism.
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    Sound + Vision: Experimenting with the Anthropological Research Article of the Future
    (American Anthropological Association, 2016) Boyer, Dominic; Faubion, James; Howe, Cymene; LaFlamme, Marcel
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    What Happened, or, Impasses and Future Horizons for an Open Anthropology of Work
    (Rice University, 2018-06) Brown, Nina; LaFlamme, Marcel; Lyon, Sarah; American Anthropological Association