Discussions on the Anthropocene have called for increased attention to how the effects of human actions on the planet are accounted for. While much of this debate remains at a theoretical level, more studies on situated Anthropocene realities have been called for. Contributing to the latter, this article explores how experimental and clinical interventions are being accounted for in life science laboratories. Drawing on three research cases, genetically modified mosquitoes, laboratory-grown stem cell lines and assisted reproduction in the IVF clinic, the article traces how ‘strategic naturalizing’ is conducted to make sense of and justify human interventions on cells, bodies and ecosystems. Strategic naturalizing in laboratory work is situated, fluid, and also implicates the presence of the social scientist. Although naturalizing biotechnologies is not a new phenomenon, according to our observations scientists increasingly draw on notions of a planet profoundly transformed by human intervention as they conceptualize their own accountability. Consequently, we propose that strategic naturalizing is emerging as an elemental logic in the patchy local enactments of the Anthropocene and its concerns. In the context of experimental and clinical laboratory work, it is a key element in enacting good science and orienting the work towards making biotechnology acceptable in wider society. In studying this, the social scientist also is implicated in situated local enactments of the Anthropocene.

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人类世的战略自然化：管理细胞、身体和生态系统


关于人类世的讨论呼吁人们更多地关注如何解释人类行为对地球的影响。虽然大部分争论仍停留在理论层面，但人们仍呼吁对人类世现实进行更多研究。本文对后者做出了贡献，探讨了如何在生命科学实验室中考虑实验和临床干预。文章借鉴三个研究案例：转基因蚊子、实验室培养的干细胞系和体外受精诊所的辅助生殖，追踪了如何进行“战略归化”，以理解和证明人类对细胞、身体和生态系统的干预的合理性。实验室工作中的战略归化是情境性的、流动性的，并且也暗示了社会科学家的存在。尽管生物技术自然化并不是一个新现象，但根据我们的观察，科学家们在概念化自己的责任时，越来越多地利用地球因人类干预而深刻改变的概念。因此，我们认为，战略自然化正在成为人类世及其关注的不完整的地方法规中的基本逻辑。在实验和临床实验室工作的背景下，它是制定良好科学和指导工作使生物技术为更广泛的社会所接受的关键要素。在研究这一问题时，社会科学家也参与了人类世的当地制定。