James Maguire,Kristoffer Albris
James Maguire
This special issue is driven by a curiosity about the role of computational forms - practices, logics, technologies, and infrastructures - in social life and how they mediate issues of trust and mistrust: designated (mis)trust. Through a se...
Razvan Nicolescu,Shriram Venkatraman,Nell Haynes
Razvan Nicolescu
This paper uses a comparative ethnographic approach to explore the ways in which social media enables new economic strategies that capitalize on women's traditional forms of reliance within their local communities. We use ethnographic examp...
Speculating on Precarious Income: Finance Cultures and the Risky Strategies of Healthy Volunteers in Clinical Drug Trials [0.03%]
临床药物试验中的健康志愿者：金融文化与不确定收入下的投机行为
Jill A Fisher,Megan M Wood,Torin Monahan
Jill A Fisher
Speculation has become a normalized occupational strategy and quotidian economic rationality that extends throughout society. Although there are many contemporary articulations of speculation, this article focuses on contract labor as a dom...
'Transport to Where?': Reflections on the problem of value and time à propos an awkward practice in medical research [0.03%]
‘ transports to where？’——论医学研究中一个尴尬实践的价值和时间问题
P Wenzel Geissler
P Wenzel Geissler
Based upon Kenyan ethnography, this article examines the gap between the bioethics aversion to value transfers in clinical trials, and research participants' and researchers' expectations of these. This article focuses upon so-called 'trans...
Ann H Kelly
Ann H Kelly
This paper focuses on an unsettling example of experimental labour - the Human Landing Catch (HLC). The HLC is a cheap and reliable technique to produce data on mosquito densities in a defined area. It requires only a human volunteer to sit...
Ann H Kelly,P Wenzel Geissler
Ann H Kelly