…liquefied petroleum gas. The Enduring Project of Improving Stoves in Rural India In some regions of the world, improved biofuel stoves have diffused successfully. In rural India, however, massive efforts…

…Embassy, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Programme, as well as local NGOs. Despite the commemorative plate on…

…race for novelty in world of information technology should be a clear occasion for pause in the world of thought; and so it is here… Christopher M. Kelty March 2012…

…American professionals whose companies build and run the parks. Streets have been paved, lowering the dust and grit profile in places like La Ventosa, but residents are often unclear who…

…we are offered an alternative: gross national happiness. Massive surveys like the Gallup World Poll offer global maps of affect and desire (Figure 1), and governments seek interventions that provide…

…(Wikimedia 2014). Wikimedia is not alone in making these notifications public; the BBC also maintains a list of affected pages to preserve “the integrity of the BBC’s online archive” (McIntosh…

In 1994, Rudolph Giuliani was elected Mayor of New York following a campaign centered entirely on the problem of public safety. He promised New Yorkers that he would restore the…

…admitting to germ-warfare missions; twenty-one American GI’s held as Korean War POWs defected to communist lands; and there appeared to be a blind spot in American individualism, which was evidently…

…are focusing on you). How did this odd now-I see-you-now-I-don’t quality come about? Born in World War II as a device to gauge American GIs’ attitudes toward the fascist enemy…

…long-standing status as semi-public goods only recently privatized and opened up to market competition. Food provision appears more thoroughly structured by markets and market devices. But food infrastructures are not…

…like the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank, editorials and scientific papers in medical journals like The Lancet, and policy documents and pamphlets prepared by aid agencies, health…

…Michael Taussig recently observed, “The drawings come across as fragments that are suggestive of a world beyond, a world that does not have to be explicitly recorded and is in…

…relationship. The technology of crowd production enables instantaneous contracting and compensation, personalized workspaces, and – most unusually – the integration of work into other online activity, such as gaming or…

…Eastern refugees, the British Museum (and probably other museums) are launching projects to “protect antiquities taken from conflict zones” (BBC News 2015). We don’t quite know how the conflict artifacts…

…leak—“Lonesome” Rhodes unwittingly insulting his public in A Face in the Crowd on a hot mic, or newspapers breaking the mistress story in Citizen Kane—but Podesta-size, Cablegate-size leaks (hundreds of…

…raise hundreds of millions of dollars online. The nearly two million supporters with active accounts on the campaign’s electoral platform helped power the incredible ‘crowdsourcing’ of field operations. Millions of…

…of artisanal cheese retail. I am not talking about plastic-encased rectangles of supermarket cheese chilling alongside cartons of milk and yogurt in tall dairy cases along the back walls of…

…fact, until the early 1960s the field was known as ‘physical distribution management’, defined by the American Marketing Association in 1948 as, “the movement and handling of goods from the…

…as rural, and transfer the “quota” to an urban area. They can then spatially manipulate rural and urban designations for development. These certificates function as a market solution to a…

…the collective (Cohen). We can earnestly aim at collecting “All the World’s Knowledge” in an online encyclopaedia including records of everything we’ve deleted or shouldn’t have kept in the first…

…uncertainty: “The virus writes the rules and this one, like all influenza viruses, can change the rules, without rhyme or reason, at any time.” Vigilant watchfulness would continue to be…

…Anglo-American scale (for example “the middle-class”), clear distinctions arise in terms of cultural practices, residential neighborhoods, and voting patterns. The mapping of the social world proposed by Bourdieu in La…

…1897). But at a stroke, the world of Jewish studies was changed forever. Unsorted Biblical texts. The Genizah has an archaeological character. Material seems to have been deposited as a…

…public but highly controlled environment of the supermarket a surreptitious, clandestine channel of communication between consumers. The food product becomes a vehicle for delivering unsanctioned messages, and the act of…

…‘hipster’ adverts on the streets of a techy part of London (BBC NewsBeat 2015). They have to do this because they know that their pay is very low compared to…

…platform with the potential to increase civic engagement and job opportunities in novel ways by breaking down geographic barriers between inner-city residents of postindustrial neighborhoods and the locations of jobs…

…could only mean deliberate human intervention into what should be a smoothly-running machine. The workings of these algorithms are political, an important terrain upon which political battles about visibility are…

…less than an effort to “save America’s biotech industry.”[8] By 2000, the fortunes of the U.S. stock market hinged on events in human genomics, and world leaders took an active…