Issue 10 Chokepoints »Blockade: The Power of Interruption…to surround it, to make circles, as far as Aroma [Street] and the stadium. It was all these groups of people, and to enter the plaza you had to pass…
Issue 5 Ebola’s Ecologies »Medical Vulnerability, or Where There Is No Kit…Yet all proved too little, too late for the current outbreak. When the virus unexpectedly appeared in West Africa, humanity took a backseat to security. The breach in the larger…
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 4 Food Infrastructures »Scaling Up/Scaling Down…reflect farmers’ production costs to oppose and contest the tendency of globalized food systems to lower prices to capture mass consumption. The AMAP system intends to help farmers live decently…
Issue 10 Chokepoints »The Invisible ‘Jungle’ of Calais…area to prevent migrants from entering the tunnel. This intervention into infrastructure meant to reverse the migration “suction effect”—that is, to scatter migrants away from the chokepoint—stands in telling contrast…
Issue 4 Food Infrastructures »Scale, Evolution and Emergence in Food Systems…The total energy cost of food thus significantly exceeds that of its production (Smil 2006:52). The high-energy food economy allowed foodstuffs to move around the planet at historically unprecedented speeds….
Issue 8 Hacks, Leaks, and Breaches »Survival of the Cryptic…secrets. Responding to May’s email, Dave Deltorto wrote that though Oliver North should have access to strong cryptography, he should be required to open his files if under criminal investigation….