ResearchersTom Scott-Smith…School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol and Senior Scholar at Lincoln College, Oxford. Before coming to academia, Tom worked as a development practitioner concerned…
Issue 10 Chokepoints »Remittance Channels & Regulatory Chokepoints…players are aspiring to tap remittance consumers through service and technological innovations—from remittance service add-ons to prepaid gift cards, as well as emerging and anticipated upload, transfer, and payment technologies…
Issue 8 Hacks, Leaks, and Breaches »The Political Meaning of Hacktivism…and through their discussions they form a community, as many become known to one another by their hacker handles. Multiple IRC networks and channels and Twitter accounts are active at…
Issue 4 Food Infrastructures »Scaling Up/Scaling Down…all these alternative food systems, small-scale becomes a motto and an approach in opposition to huge globalized food systems (Weber et al. 2008). This polarized vision might have some rhetorical…
Issue 10 Chokepoints »The Invisible ‘Jungle’ of Calais…and Turbout 2017; Mambra 2017). Calais, as seen by Google. Google Earth From Chunnel to “Jungle” As the number of migrants in Calais escalated, the French government in 1999 asked…
Issue 8 Hacks, Leaks, and Breaches »Survival of the Cryptic…their suit with a case against President Bush toward the end of his administration. The Archive expanded its petition to the Court this time, asking them to formally rule that…