The violent face of bureaucracy
Whenever I meet Merule, a 42-year-old Nigerian citizen living undocumented in Milan, Italy, I am struck by the number of […]
Let there be Light: Frontiers of techno-Solar Capitalism
I grew up in an area surrounded by miombo woodland, located approximately 200 kilometres southeast of Lake Tanganyika. In the
The right to dignity: Housing struggles, city-making, and citizenship in urban Chile
How do poor people in the burgeoning cities of the Global South assert their right to housing and to the
Crooked Cats
This book is a rich cultural analysis of how people live with big cats in India in times of the
How to use health technologies to “kill one little deer in the dark forest”
There is a global push towards making AI more ethical and transparent. As critical contributions on the topic of AI
Humanitarian Technologies of Trust
“Trust in humanitarian action” was the top item on the agenda of the 33rd international conference of the Red Cross
“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,
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
please use your discretion to adjust your hope
any day or part day that the individual sees their child in person in the UK counts as a day
A future history of water: Andrea Ballestero’s response
When encountering the generosity of brilliant colleagues, one can only start with gratitude. Add to that a historical moment when