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Life At A Distance - Medicine And Nationalism In India''S Pan-African E-Network

by Vincent Duclos

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 In Life at a Distance, Vincent Duclos recounts the story of the Pan-African e-Network. Branded as "India''s gift to the world," and as a "shining example of South-South cooperation," the Pan-African e-Network was an exceptionally ambitious project. Between 2009 and 2017 the network used satellite technology to connect hospitals across Africa with hospitals in India, providing medical education and delivering health care for patients at a distance. Duclos shows how, by accelerating the flow of expertise across continents, the network also created connected enclaves, at once commercial, infrastructural, and medical. Life at a Distance is the story of a project that, Duclos suggests, acted as a medium for speculation about the future—about medical markets, the nation, South-South relations, and a new world order beyond Western-centric scripts.
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Animal People - Moral Subjects In The Work Of Animal Protection

by Adam Reed

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 Animal People introduces readers to the professionalized world of animal protection from the perspective of those who consider themselves to be ""moderate"" activists. Adam Reed explores the interrelationships between moral cause and organizational culture, including the ways in which expert roles such as investigator and lobbyist inform the practice and outlook of animal protection.
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Drawing Coastlines - Climate Anxieties And The Visual Reinvention Of Mumbai''S Shore

by V. Chitra

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 Drawing Coastlines reveals the ways that technical images such as weather infographics, sea-level projections, and surveys are fast remaking Mumbai's coasts and coastal futures. They set in place infrastructural interventions, vocabularies of development and conservation, and their lines and dots inscribe material conditions of existence and horizons of loss that entangle life forms.
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Crucible Of The Incurable - Facing Als

by Anthony Stavrianakis

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 Concerns how people face life with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Anthony Stavrianakis spent a year in clinics and with people living with the illness in the United States. He examines the multiple meanings of care in a context of a chronic, degenerative, one-hundred percent fatal, neuromuscular illness, whose most common duration is between 2 and 5 years.
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Animal People - Moral Subjects In The Work Of Animal Protection

by Adam Reed

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 Animal People introduces readers to the professionalized world of animal protection from the perspective of those who consider themselves to be ""moderate"" activists. Adam Reed explores the interrelationships between moral cause and organizational culture, including the ways in which expert roles such as investigator and lobbyist inform the practice and outlook of animal protection.
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Drawing Coastlines - Climate Anxieties And The Visual Reinvention Of Mumbai'S Shore

by V. Chitra

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 Drawing Coastlines reveals the ways that technical images such as weather infographics, sea-level projections, and surveys are fast remaking Mumbai's coasts and coastal futures. They set in place infrastructural interventions, vocabularies of development and conservation, and their lines and dots inscribe material conditions of existence and horizons of loss that entangle life forms.
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Science Interrupted - Rethinking Research Practice With Bureaucracy, Agroforestry, And Ethnography

by Timothy G. Mclellan

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 Examines how scientists in China pursue environmental sustainability within the constraints of domestic and international bureaucracies. McLellan offers a theoretical framework for analyzing the formal procedural work of Chinese bureaucracyâ€"work that is overlooked when China scholars restrict their gaze to the informal and interpersonal channels through which bureaucracy is often navigated.
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Science Interrupted - Rethinking Research Practice With Bureaucracy, Agroforestry, And Ethnography

by Timothy G. Mclellan

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 Examines how scientists in China pursue environmental sustainability within the constraints of domestic and international bureaucracies. McLellan offers a theoretical framework for analyzing the formal procedural work of Chinese bureaucracyâ€"work that is overlooked when China scholars restrict their gaze to the informal and interpersonal channels through which bureaucracy is often navigated.
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Wisdom From The Edge - Writing Ethnography In Turbulent Times

by Paul Stoller

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 Wisdom From the Edge describes what anthropologists can do to contribute to the social and cultural changes that shape a social future of wellbeing and viability. Paul Stoller shows how anthropologists can develop sensuously described ethnographic narratives to communicate powerfully their insights to a wide range of audiences.
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Wisdom From The Edge - Writing Ethnography In Turbulent Times

by Paul Stoller

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 Wisdom From the Edge describes what anthropologists can do to contribute to the social and cultural changes that shape a social future of wellbeing and viability. Paul Stoller shows how anthropologists can develop sensuously described ethnographic narratives to communicate powerfully their insights to a wide range of audiences.
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Free Culture And The City - Hackers, Commoners, And Neighbors In Madrid, 1997â€“2017

by Adolfo Estalella e Alberto Corsin Jimenez

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 Drawing on two decades of ethnographic and historical work, Free Culture and the City examines how and why free software spread beyond the world of hackers and software engineers and became the basis for an urban movement now heralded by scholars as a model for emulation.
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Architects - Portraits Of A Practice

by Thomas Yarrow

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 What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise? These deep and deeply personal questions spring to the fore in Thomas Yarrow's vivid exploration of the life of architects. Yarrow takes us inside the world of architects, showing us...
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Anthropogenic Rivers - The Production Of Uncertainty In Lao Hydropower

by Jerome Whitington

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 In the 2000s, Laos was treated as a model country for the efficacy of privatized, "sustainable" hydropower projects as viable options for World Bank-led development. By viewing hydropower as a process...
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Anthropogenic Rivers - The Production Of Uncertainty In Lao Hydropower

by Jerome Whitington

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 In the 2000s, Laos was treated as a model country for the efficacy of privatized, "sustainable" hydropower projects as viable options for World Bank-led development. By viewing hydropower as a process...
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Scrambling For Africa - Aids, Expertise, And The Rise Of American Global Health Science

by Johanna Tayloe Crane

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 Crane reveals how Africa went from being a continent largely excluded from advancements in HIV medicine to an area of central concern and knowledge production within the increasingly popular field of global health science.
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Light Of Knowledge - Literacy Activism And The Politics Of Writing In South India

by Francis Cody

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 Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons, science demonstrations, and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts to spread enlightenment among the oppressed are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), considered to be among the most successful mass literacy movements in recent history. In The Light of Knowledge, Francis Cody's ethnography of the Arivoli Iyakkam highlights the paradoxes inherent in such movements that seek to emancipate people through literacy when literacy is a power-laden social practice in its own right.The Light of Knowledge is set primarily in the rural district of Pudukkottai in Tamil Nadu, and it is about activism among laboring women from marginalized castes who have been particularly active as learners and volunteers in the movement. In their endeavors to remake the Tamil countryside through literacy activism, workers in the movement found that their own understanding of the politics of writing and Enlightenment was often transformed as they encountered vastly different notions of language and imaginations of social order. Indeed, while activists of the movement successfully mobilized large numbers of rural women, they did so through logics that often pushed against the very Enlightenment rationality they hoped to foster. Offering a rare behind-the-scenes look at an increasingly important area of social and political activism, The Light of Knowledge brings tools of linguistic anthropology to engage with critical social theories of the postcolonial state.
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Life Informatic - Newsmaking In The Digital Era

by Dominic Boyer

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 A fascinating account of journalists struggling to maintain their expertise and authority, even as they find their principles and skills profoundly challenged by ever more complex and fast-moving streams of information.
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No Family Is An Island - Cultural Expertise Among Samoans In Diaspora

by Ilana M. Gershon

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 Ilana Gershon investigates how and when the categories "cultural" and "acultural" become relevant for Samoans as they encounter cultural differences in churches, ritual exchanges, welfare offices, and community-based organizations.
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At Home With The Diplomats - Inside A European Foreign Ministry

by Iver B. Neumann

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 There is a vast gulf between the public face of diplomacy and the opinions and actions that take place behind embassy doors. In At Home with the Diplomats, Iver B. Neumann offers unprecedented access to the inner workings of a foreign ministry.
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Roads - An Anthropology Of Infrastructure And Expertise

by Hannah Knox e Penny Harvey

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 Sweeping in scope and conceptually ambitious, this book tells a story of infrastructure and of global flows of money, goods, and...
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Viral Network - A Pathography Of The H1n1 Influenza Pandemic

by Theresa MacPhail

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 Theresa MacPhail examines our collective fascination with and fear of viruses through the lens of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.
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Swedish Design - An Ethnography

by Keith M. Murphy

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 This book examines the special relationship between politics and design in Sweden, revealing in particular the cultural meanings this relationship holds for Swedish...
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Technocratic Antarctic - An Ethnography Of Scientific Expertise And Environmental Governance

by Jessica O'Reilly

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 The Technocratic Antarctic is an ethnographic account of the scientists and policymakers who work on Antarctica. Jessica O'Reilly conducted most of her research for this book in New Zealand, home of the "Antarctic Gateway" city of Christchurch, and on an expedition to Windless Bight, Antarctica, with the New Zealand Antarctic Program.
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The Technocratic Antarctic - An Ethnography Of Scientific Expertise And Environmental Governance

by Jessica O'Reilly

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 The Technocratic Antarctic is an ethnographic account of the scientists and policymakers who work on Antarctica. Jessica O'Reilly conducted most of her research for this book in New Zealand, home of the "Antarctic Gateway" city of Christchurch, and on an expedition to Windless Bight, Antarctica, with the New Zealand Antarctic Program.
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