Technologies of Trust Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/category/thematic-threads/technologies-of-trust/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Wed, 27 May 2026 12:58:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png Technologies of Trust Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/category/thematic-threads/technologies-of-trust/ 32 32 Technologies of Trust: Introduction https://allegralaboratory.net/technologies-of-trust-introduction/ https://allegralaboratory.net/technologies-of-trust-introduction/#respond Mon, 12 Sep 2022 07:00:24 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39268 This post is the introduction of our thematic thread on Trust, curated by Anna Weichselbraun (University of Vienna), Shaila Seshia Galvin (Geneva Graduate Institute) […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/technologies-of-trust-introduction/feed/ 0 Humanitarian Technologies of Trust  https://allegralaboratory.net/humanitarian-techniques-of-trust/ https://allegralaboratory.net/humanitarian-techniques-of-trust/#respond Mon, 12 Sep 2022 06:55:17 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39273 “Trust in humanitarian action” was the top item on the agenda of the 33rd international conference of the Red Cross […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/humanitarian-techniques-of-trust/feed/ 0 Global health meets sugar capitalism https://allegralaboratory.net/global-health-meets-sugar-capitalism/ https://allegralaboratory.net/global-health-meets-sugar-capitalism/#respond Mon, 12 Sep 2022 06:50:16 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39290 Cal Biruk explores how technologies of audit and claims to transparency common to both agri-capitalist and global health infrastructures in […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/global-health-meets-sugar-capitalism/feed/ 0 Trust the organic?! https://allegralaboratory.net/trust-the-organic/ https://allegralaboratory.net/trust-the-organic/#respond Mon, 12 Sep 2022 06:45:52 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39278 This short essay addresses how trust mechanisms are articulated in one of Geneva’s local organic stores, considering the existence of […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/trust-the-organic/feed/ 0 “Is it really organic?” https://allegralaboratory.net/is-it-really-organic/ https://allegralaboratory.net/is-it-really-organic/#respond Mon, 12 Sep 2022 06:40:08 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39298 Spurred by a question I have been commonly asked, yet one that I’ve long neglected as ethnographically revealing in itself, […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/is-it-really-organic/feed/ 0 Technologies of Trust put to the Test https://allegralaboratory.net/technologies-of-trust-put-to-the-test/ https://allegralaboratory.net/technologies-of-trust-put-to-the-test/#respond Mon, 12 Sep 2022 06:30:06 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39335 Drawing on participant observation of COVID-19 tests and blood donation, this article demonstrates how micro-interactions between medical personnel and laypeople […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/seeing-is-not-believing/feed/ 0 Trust the food chain, trust the blockchain https://allegralaboratory.net/trust-the-food-chain-trust-the-blockchain/ https://allegralaboratory.net/trust-the-food-chain-trust-the-blockchain/#respond Mon, 12 Sep 2022 06:20:19 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39404 Using blockchain as a thread, IBM Food Trust tries to stitch the wounds in the global, decentralised food supply chain. […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/trust-the-food-chain-trust-the-blockchain/feed/ 0 Trust, truth, and the blockchain https://allegralaboratory.net/trust-truth-and-the-blockchain/ https://allegralaboratory.net/trust-truth-and-the-blockchain/#comments Mon, 12 Sep 2022 06:15:22 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39421 “Less Trust, More Truth” said the black nylon drawstring bag in the cardboard box. I had to have one. No […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/trust-truth-and-the-blockchain/feed/ 1 Making medicines trustworthy: pharmaceutical technologies of trust and regulation https://allegralaboratory.net/making-medicines-trustworthy-pharmaceutical-technologies-of-trust-and-regulation/ https://allegralaboratory.net/making-medicines-trustworthy-pharmaceutical-technologies-of-trust-and-regulation/#respond Mon, 12 Sep 2022 06:10:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39349 How do globalised health regimes create and shape landscapes of medical regulation and patient safety? This essay asks about the […]

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