Global health meets sugar capitalism
Cal Biruk explores how technologies of audit and claims to transparency common to both agri-capitalist and global health infrastructures in […]
Trust the organic?!
This short essay addresses how trust mechanisms are articulated in one of Geneva’s local organic stores, considering the existence of
“Is it really organic?”
Spurred by a question I have been commonly asked, yet one that I’ve long neglected as ethnographically revealing in itself,
Technologies of Trust put to the Test
Drawing on participant observation of COVID-19 tests and blood donation, this article demonstrates how micro-interactions between medical personnel and laypeople
Seeing Is Not Believing
This piece explores how the indexical quality of Facebook livestreams and the particular claims they make to represent or manifest
Trust the food chain, trust the blockchain
Using blockchain as a thread, IBM Food Trust tries to stitch the wounds in the global, decentralised food supply chain.
Trust, truth, and the blockchain
“Less Trust, More Truth” said the black nylon drawstring bag in the cardboard box. I had to have one. No
Making medicines trustworthy: pharmaceutical technologies of trust and regulation
How do globalised health regimes create and shape landscapes of medical regulation and patient safety? This essay asks about the
Trust: A Pragmatics of Social Life?
Trust exposes and discloses the social. But the heterogeneity and even excessiveness of meaning in the concept—its overdetermination, its multifariousness
Demonstrating Trust in Jordan
This essay considers the role of demonstration as a technique of trust at a wild animal sanctuary in Jordan. I