professionals in the food system. Hence, these problems cannot be solved solely technically by improved waste management or recycling technologies, as potential transformations must be linked to wider practices of food supply. From such a perspective, the use of
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Plastic Packaging, Food Supply, and Everyday Life
Adopting a Social Practice Perspective in Social-Ecological Research
Lukas Sattlegger, Immanuel Stieß, Luca Raschewski, and Katharina Reindl
Democratizing the Digital Collection
New Players and New Pedagogies in Three-Dimensional Cultural Heritage
Jane-Heloise Nancarrow
“Digital heritage carries the potential to unmoor images from their material forms and surroundings and thereby offer novel forms of revitalization, reintegration, and possession.” ( Phillips 2011 ) Like many technologies of the “new museum,” three
Patrick O'Hare and Anna Szolucha
imperceptibility – the structural arrangements that make the problems of gas-patch communities invisible to policy-makers, regulators and some scientists. It is the present forms of information sharing and technical infrastructure of science and technology, Wylie
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2019
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 123–126
Edited by Maryon McDonald
technologies of imagination, the ethics and the inequalities of what is generally seen as secular and ‘capitalist’ modern time.
Environmental Expertise as Group Belonging
Environmental Sociology Meets Science and Technology Studies
Rolf Lidskog and Göran Sundqvist
different sectors use environmental expertise to develop cleaner technologies, as well as to improve their public image and strengthen their brands. Thus, hardly any claims about environmental action—whether they come from governments, environmental
Dearly Departed
Communicating with the Dead in the Digital Age
Jennifer Huberman
ways people ‘repurpose’ information and communication technologies for spiritual ends ( Bell 2006: 154 ). And in recent years, anthropologists have generated some very rich accounts of how religious beliefs shape people’s appropriations of technology
In/visible—In/secure
Optics of regulation and control
Ieva Jusionyte and Daniel M. Goldstein
, though we can’t be sure ( Frois 2013 )—to sophisticated surveillance technologies, while gates to these “cities of walls” ( Caldeira 2000 ) are manned by private security guards, shotguns in hand. Rarely if ever used, these intimidating weapons are
Introduction
Infrastructures of Certainty and Doubt
Matthew Carey and Morten Axel Pedersen
absconditus lābilisque – the labile and hidden God of infrastructure Over recent years, a rapidly growing number of studies have been published in the burgeoning theoretical and empirical interface between anthropology and science and technology studies (see
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Sep 2017
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 18–29
Jackie Feldman
images of Lourdes, we see how technologies of visual recording and reproduction are employed by shrine authorities in order to propagate certain kinds of knowledge, while new and more accessible technologies also result in changes in the ritual
Maryon McDonald
Matthew Carey and Morten Axel Pedersen. Their topic is ‘Infrastructures of Certainty and Doubt’. This is a collection that makes use of ontological turns in anthropology but takes us beyond the language of ‘technology’. ‘Infrastructure’ is explicitly used
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2017
- Article Type:
- Editorial
- Pages:
- v–vi