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Among people and artifacts: Actor-Network Theory and the adoption of solar ice machines in the Brazilian Amazon

2019; Elsevier BV; Volume: 53; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.erss.2019.02.013

2214-6326

Iaci Menezes Penteado, Ana Claudeíse Silva do Nascimento, Dávila Suelen Souza Corrêa, Edila Arnaud Ferreira Moura, Roberto Zilles, Maria Cecília Rosinski Lima Gomes, Felipe Jacob Pires, Otacílio Soares Brito, Josenildo Frazão da Silva, Ademir Vilena Reis, A. dos S. Souza, Amanda Cristina Nunes Pacífico,

Innovative Human-Technology Interaction

Using Actor-Network Theory, this article analyzes the process by which a solar-powered food storage technology was implemented in an isolated floodplain community in the Brazilian Amazon (Amazonas state, Brazil), as part of the Solar Ice Project headed by the Mamirauá Institute for Sustainable Development. Our study describes the sociotechnical network that entangles the human and nonhuman actors involved in this initiative and reflects on the complexity of the implementation process. Our discussion seeks to identify elements not generally considered in analyses of Social Technologies used in local development initiatives based on technological innovations. Data on the engineering, use, operation, and adaptation of Solar Ice Machines highlight the need to promote fluid technologies capable of adapting to the different contexts within which they are inserted.