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Uncertainty by Design
Preparing for the Future with Scenario Technology
Inbunden, 2022
1650 kr
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In Uncertainty by Design Limor Samimian-Darash presents cases of the use of scenario technology in the fields of security and emergency preparedness, energy, and health by analyzing scenario narratives and practices at the National Emergency Management Authority in Israel, the World Health …
Uncertainty by Design
Preparing for the Future with Scenario Technology
Häftad, 2022
333 kr
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In Uncertainty by Design Limor Samimian-Darash presents cases of the use of scenario technology in the fields of security and emergency preparedness, energy, and health by analyzing scenario narratives and practices at the National Emergency Management Authority in Israel, the World Health …
Spiritual Economies
Islam, Globalization, and the Afterlife of Development
Inbunden, 2010
1650 kr
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In Europe and North America Muslims are often represented in conflict with modernity—but what could be more modern than motivational programs that represent Islamic practice as conducive to business success and personal growth? Daromir Rudnyckyj's innovative and surprising book challenges …
At Home with the Diplomats
Inside a European Foreign Ministry
Inbunden, 2012
1650 kr
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The 2010 WikiLeaks release of 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables has made it eminently clear that there is a vast gulf between the public face of diplomacy and the opinions and actions that take place behind embassy doors. In At Home with the Diplomats, Iver B. Neumann offers unprecedented access to …
No Family Is an Island
Cultural Expertise Among Samoans in Diaspora
Inbunden, 2012
1650 kr
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Government bureaucracies across the globe have become increasingly attuned in recent years to cultural diversity within their populations. Using culture as a category to process people and dispense services, however, can create its own problems and unintended consequences. In No Family Is an …
Life Informatic
Newsmaking in the Digital Era
Inbunden, 2013
1650 kr
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News journalism is in the midst of radical transformation brought about by the spread of digital information and communication technology and the rise of neoliberalism. What does it look like, however, from the inside of a news organization? In The Life Informatic, Dominic Boyer offers the first …
Scrambling for Africa
AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science
Inbunden, 2013
1650 kr
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Anthropologist Crane (Univ. of Washington-Bothell) presents a solidly documented and well-reasoned discussion of AIDS and its far-reaching effects. An excellent overview deals with resistance to treatment.. Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, professionals.―ChoiceA work of outstanding …
Light of Knowledge
Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India
Av Francis Cody
Inbunden, 2013
1604 kr
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Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons, science demonstrations, and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts to spread enlightenment among the oppressed are …
Viral Network
A Pathography of the H1N1 Influenza Pandemic
Inbunden, 2014
1700 kr
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In The Viral Network, Theresa MacPhail examines our collective fascination with and fear of viruses through the lens of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. In April 2009, a novel strain of H1N1 influenza virus resulting from a combination of bird, swine, and human flu viruses emerged in Veracruz, Mexico. The …
Roads
An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise
Inbunden, 2015
1650 kr
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Roads matter to people. This claim is central to the work of Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox, who in this book use the example of highway building in South America to explore what large public infrastructural projects can tell us about contemporary state formation, social relations, and emerging …
Swedish Design
An Ethnography
Inbunden, 2015
1700 kr
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Swedish designers are noted for producing distinctive and elegant forms; their furniture and household goods have an especially loyal following around the world. Design in Sweden has more than just an aesthetic component, however. Since at least the late nineteenth century, Swedish politicians and …
Technocratic Antarctic
An Ethnography of Scientific Expertise and Environmental Governance
Inbunden, 2017
1650 kr
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The Technocratic Antarctic is an ethnographic account of the scientists and policymakers who work on Antarctica. In a place with no indigenous people, Antarctic scientists and policymakers use expertise as their primary model of governance. Scientific research and policymaking are practices that …
Technocratic Antarctic
An Ethnography of Scientific Expertise and Environmental Governance
Häftad, 2017
404 kr
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The Technocratic Antarctic is an ethnographic account of the scientists and policymakers who work on Antarctica. In a place with no indigenous people, Antarctic scientists and policymakers use expertise as their primary model of governance. Scientific research and policymaking are practices that …
Spiritual Economies
Islam, Globalization, and the Afterlife of Development
Häftad, 2010
389 kr
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In Europe and North America Muslims are often represented in conflict with modernity—but what could be more modern than motivational programs that represent Islamic practice as conducive to business success and personal growth? Daromir Rudnyckyj's innovative and surprising book challenges …
At Home with the Diplomats
Inside a European Foreign Ministry
Häftad, 2012
389 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The 2010 WikiLeaks release of 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables has made it eminently clear that there is a vast gulf between the public face of diplomacy and the opinions and actions that take place behind embassy doors. In At Home with the Diplomats, Iver B. Neumann offers unprecedented access to …
No Family Is an Island
Cultural Expertise Among Samoans in Diaspora
Häftad, 2012
460 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Government bureaucracies across the globe have become increasingly attuned in recent years to cultural diversity within their populations. Using culture as a category to process people and dispense services, however, can create its own problems and unintended consequences. In No Family Is an …
Scrambling for Africa
AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science
Häftad, 2013
446 kr
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Anthropologist Crane (Univ. of Washington-Bothell) presents a solidly documented and well-reasoned discussion of AIDS and its far-reaching effects. An excellent overview deals with resistance to treatment.. Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, professionals.―ChoiceA work of outstanding …
Light of Knowledge
Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India
Av Francis Cody
Häftad, 2013
430 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons, science demonstrations, and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts to spread enlightenment among the oppressed are …
Roads
An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise
Häftad, 2015
418 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Roads matter to people. This claim is central to the work of Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox, who in this book use the example of highway building in South America to explore what large public infrastructural projects can tell us about contemporary state formation, social relations, and emerging …
Swedish Design
An Ethnography
Häftad, 2015
401 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Swedish designers are noted for producing distinctive and elegant forms; their furniture and household goods have an especially loyal following around the world. Design in Sweden has more than just an aesthetic component, however. Since at least the late nineteenth century, Swedish politicians and …
Viral Network
A Pathography of the H1N1 Influenza Pandemic
Häftad, 2014
416 kr
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In The Viral Network, Theresa MacPhail examines our collective fascination with and fear of viruses through the lens of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. In April 2009, a novel strain of H1N1 influenza virus resulting from a combination of bird, swine, and human flu viruses emerged in Veracruz, Mexico. The …
Governing Habits
Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic
Inbunden, 2016
1700 kr
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Critics of narcology—as addiction medicine is called in Russia—decry it as being "backward," hopelessly behind contemporary global medical practices in relation to addiction and substance abuse, and assume that its practitioners lack both professionalism and expertise. On the basis of his research …
Governing Habits
Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic
Häftad, 2016
445 kr
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Critics of narcology—as addiction medicine is called in Russia—decry it as being "backward," hopelessly behind contemporary global medical practices in relation to addiction and substance abuse, and assume that its practitioners lack both professionalism and expertise. On the basis of his research …
Anthropogenic Rivers
The Production of Uncertainty in Lao Hydropower
Inbunden, 2019
1650 kr
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In the 2000s, Laos was treated as a model country for the efficacy of privatized, "sustainable" hydropower projects as viable options for World Bank-led development. By viewing hydropower as a process that creates ecologically uncertain environments, Jerome Whitington reveals how new forms of …
Anthropogenic Rivers
The Production of Uncertainty in Lao Hydropower
Häftad, 2019
460 kr
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In the 2000s, Laos was treated as a model country for the efficacy of privatized, "sustainable" hydropower projects as viable options for World Bank-led development. By viewing hydropower as a process that creates ecologically uncertain environments, Jerome Whitington reveals how new forms of …
Architects
Portraits of a Practice
Häftad, 2019
211 kr
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What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise? These deep and deeply personal questions spring to the fore in Thomas Yarrow's vivid exploration of the life of architects. Yarrow …
Truth Society
Science, Disinformation, and Politics in Berlusconi's Italy
Inbunden, 2020
1700 kr
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Noelle Molé Liston's The Truth Society seeks to understand how a period of Italian political spectacle, which regularly blurred fact and fiction, has shaped how people understand truth, mass-mediated information, scientific knowledge, and forms of governance. Liston scrutinizes Italy's late …
Truth Society
Science, Disinformation, and Politics in Berlusconi's Italy
Häftad, 2020
386 kr
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Noelle Molé Liston's The Truth Society seeks to understand how a period of Italian political spectacle, which regularly blurred fact and fiction, has shaped how people understand truth, mass-mediated information, scientific knowledge, and forms of governance. Liston scrutinizes Italy's late …
Crafting History
Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy
Inbunden, 2020
1700 kr
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What constitutes an archive in architecture? What forms does it take? What epistemology does it perform? What kind of craft is archiving? Crafting History provides answers and offers insights on the ontological granularity of the archive and its relationship with architecture as a complex …
Crafting History
Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy
Häftad, 2020
357 kr
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What constitutes an archive in architecture? What forms does it take? What epistemology does it perform? What kind of craft is archiving? Crafting History provides answers and offers insights on the ontological granularity of the archive and its relationship with architecture as a complex …
