…(NGOs) involved in fair trade try to create a solidarity that is supposed to shorten these distances. In the case of CSAs, the idea is also to bridge consumption and…

…factory brought industrial development to a nineteenth-century agrarian community, employment, local festivals with fireworks in the early twentieth century, and a rock festival today called Suikerrock (Sugar Rock). In 2002,…

…significant excerpts from the raw data, it would include coding instructions and blank versions of the coding sheets: an invitation to a DIY education in movement observation. In addition, Lomax…

…philanthropy or an interest in managing public image. In Safaricom’s case, however, CSR and core commercial services often exist in a zone of indistinction: what qualifies as philanthropy and what…

…to reveal how the future is likely to unfold. According to Koselleck, modern secular temporality broke free of the apocalyptic future of Christianity in two movements. First, with the emergence…

…Revolution. As historian Martin Lynn explains in Commerce and Economic Change in West Africa, palm oil was used in the manufacture of Europe’s (and Britain’s) soap and candles, in textile…

…Cities Challenge initiatives took the potential of ICT infrastructure to connect city to citizen in original, often untested ways. These initiatives proposed harnessing ICT’s potential to address a “matter of…

…spies nature. In this context, inventories are defined as devices to measure acceptable variables in relation to a previously determined desired state of nature. These inventories can be read as…

…happens within the home (Kelly, 2012). The HLC elaborates a different vectoral space: In response to years of interventions aimed at the home—indoor residual spray, household screening, ceiling boards, insecticide-treated…

…individual preference has become, and how it is being programmed into the heart of the tools we use. Because it is so easy to look directly to social media and…

…Institute’s main agenda was to shape policymaking on international economic issues that affected US foreign policy and economy. The Latin American debt crisis, in this vein, was the Institute’s first…

…Genome Variation Consortium to the Mexican Genome Diversity Project: initiatives to collect blood for mapping human variation have promised powerful insights into disease causation. Related, large-scale genetic mapping projects project…

…to king Priam reversed the course of the Trojan War. In the myth, the spectacular free seductions of the container—the horse—served as a voluntary means to introduce a hidden content:…

…This client had also gotten into it a tiff with a Facebook admin, exchanged some testy emails with the admin, but walked away from it while the admin continued to…

…reporters how to find Anonymous and how to get on IRC to interview them. For most of the winter and spring of 2011, I helped shuttle reporters onto the channel…

…for later retrieval. The system was intended to act as a practical tool to organize and archive family memories in a digital age. However, test users did not use the…

“Who eats pizza in Norway?” In her ethnography of a Norwegian marketing firm, the anthropologist Marianne Lien describes an advertising campaign intended to promote frozen pizzas: In spring 1992, Viking…

…brought into being though efforts to care for and maintain water, and the enduring effects of water distribution infrastructures in the city (Marres 2012). Material Publics Historians describe infrastructures as…

…features prominently in discussions of international aid projects, which include a long history of things that appear superficially beneficial but quickly prove inadequate. Indeed, an entire approach in development and…

…recipes that use it as an ingredient, or strategies to incorporate the product into a daily balanced diet. It is here that the consumer discovers the conspicuously inconspicuous information panel,…

…have turned Nairobi into a laboratory for the toilet. In the city’s low-income settlements inadequate sanitation is normalized, a social fact captured by the common refrain, “Diarrhea ni kawaida (is…