Technologies of Trust: Introduction
This post is the introduction of our thematic thread on Trust, curated by Anna Weichselbraun (University of Vienna), Shaila Seshia Galvin (Geneva Graduate Institute) and Ramah McKay (University of…
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This thematic thread parses the qualities of trust and their modes of production, asking how material objects, bureaucratic and regulatory practices, as well as diverse kinds of technologies work to configure and condition trust.
Humanitarian Technologies of Trust
“Trust in humanitarian action” was the top item on the agenda of the 33rd international conference of the Red Cross movement which took place…
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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 Malawi paradoxically proliferate suspicion….
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Trust the organic?!
This short essay addresses how trust mechanisms are articulated in one of Geneva’s local organic stores, considering the existence of trust relationships between human…
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“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, this essay takes queries…
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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 can constitute trust, grounding…
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Seeing Is Not Believing
This piece explores how the indexical quality of Facebook livestreams and the particular claims they make to represent or manifest “reality” connect with long-standing…
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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. The creation of trust…
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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 other item of swag…
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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 many ways in which…
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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 and multiformity, its downright…
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Demonstrating Trust in Jordan
This essay considers the role of demonstration as a technique of trust at a wild animal sanctuary in Jordan. I suggest that demonstration is…
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