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Edited by Charlotte Brives, Matthäus Rest and Salla Sariola, With Microbes explores relationships between microorganisms and the people, animals and environments around them. Its contributors use ethnographic accounts and artistic approaches to examine microbial life beyond a simple division between beneficial organisms and pathogens.
The chapters follow fermented foods, waste, immunity, antimicrobial resistance and bacteriophages, among other subjects. Encounters in kitchens, laboratories and other everyday settings show how people recognize, cultivate, manage or attempt to exclude organisms that are often invisible to them.
The collection also asks how social researchers can study microbes through observation and relationships. Readers encounter different ways of knowing microbial life and accounts of how those relationships change the practices, expectations and environments of the people involved.