Sērija : Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Jun-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501782053)
In Life at a Distance Vincent Duclos recounts the story of the Pan-African e-Network. Branded as a Indias gift to the world, and as a shining example of South-South cooperation, the Pan-African e-Network was an exceptiona...Lasīt vairāk
In Life at a Distance Vincent Duclos recounts the story of the Pan-African e-Network. Branded as a Indias gift to the world, and as a shining example of South-South cooperation, the Pan-African e-Network was an exceptiona...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Jan-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501779633)
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 caus...Lasīt vairāk
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 caus...Lasīt vairāk
This book is about how technoscientific drawings create coasts. It dwells on the lives of these images from Mumbai and follows surveyors, fishing communities, planners, amateur meteorologists, marine life advocates, and their visual projects. The bo...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Nov-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501778315)
Crucible of the Incurable 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 multi...Lasīt vairāk
An anthropological inquiry into how people with the neurodegenerative illness amyotrophic lateral sclerosis live with the illness, and how they are accompanied by medical professionals and loved ones in giving form to a life with this illness--...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Jan-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501773327)
An ethnography of an agroenvironmental research center in southwest China. The book takes the experiences of the staff navigating diverse international funding regimes and authoritarian state institutions as an entry point for understanding the incr...Lasīt vairāk
Science Interrupted examines how scientists in China pursue environmental sustainability within the constraints of domestic and international bureaucracies. Timothy G. McLellan offers a theoretical framework for analyzing the...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Aug-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501770654)
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 d...Lasīt vairāk
This book presents a blueprint for doing anthropology in troubled times. It instructs readers on how to convey important anthropological insights-indigenous wisdom-to a general audience in search of solutions to cotemporary social problems.--...Lasīt vairāk
Free Culture and the City offers the first in-depth account of how a copyleft and digital rights movement spread beyond the world of hackers and software engineers in Madrid to become the basis for an unprecedented urban movement for the defense of...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Feb-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501767173)
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. By the...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Apr-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501762451)
In Uncertainty by Design Limor Samimian-Darash presents cases of the use of scenario technology in the fields of security and emergency preparedness, energy, and health by analyzing scenario narratives and practices at the...Lasīt vairāk
Examines the use of scenario planning in the fields of security and emergency preparedness, energy, and health by analyzing practices at the National Emergency Authority in Israel, the World Health Organizations Regional Office for Europe, and the...Lasīt vairāk
A Simpler Life approaches the developing field of synthetic biology by focusing on the experimental and institutional lives of practitioners in two labs at Princeton University. It highlights the distance between hyped technoscience and the...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Mar-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501753442)
This book provides an ethnographic examination of research and experimentation in the field of synthetic biology-- A Simpler Life approaches the developing field of synthetic biology by focusing on the experimental and institution...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Nov-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501751820)
Following the daily routines of collecting and record keeping at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Albena Yaneva tells the story of how the nature of architectural archives reflects the nature of design as a collective endeavor in which archivis...Lasīt vairāk
What constitutes an archive in architecture? What forms does it take? What epistemology does it perform? What kind of craft is archiving? Crafting History provides answers and offers insights on the ontological granularity of the archive an...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Nov-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501750786)
This book seeks to understand how the late-twentieth-century era of Italian political spectacle, which regularly blurred fact and fiction, has shaped how people understand truth, particularly mass mediated information, and in turn, scientific knowle...Lasīt vairāk
Noelle Molé Listons The Truth Society seeks to understand how a period of Italian political spectacle, which regularly blurred fact and fiction, has shaped how people understand truth, mass-mediated information, scientific knowled...Lasīt vairāk
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 Yarrows vivid e...Lasīt vairāk
This ethnography of the forms of reason, power, and knowledge of Lao hydropower development investigates how industry actors formulate an ontology of nature primarily through recourse to American management philosophy-- In the 2000s, Laos w...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Jan-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501730900)
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 that creates ecologically uncertain environments,...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
(Izdošanas datums: 17-Jan-2017, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801454127)
The Technocratic Antarctic is an ethnographic account of the scientists and policymakers who work on Antarctica. Jessica OReilly conducted most of her research for this book in New Zealand, home of the Antarctic Gateway city of Christchurch, and o...Lasīt vairāk
The Technocratic Antarctic is an ethnographic account of the scientists and policymakers who work on Antarctica. Jessica OReilly conducted most of her research for this book in New Zealand, home of the Antarctic Gateway city of Christchurch, and o...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Oct-2016, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501703126)
Governing Habits is an ethnography of extraordinary sensitivity and awareness that shows how therapeutic practice and expertise is expressed in the highly specific, yet rapidly transforming milieu of hospitals, clinics, and rehabilitation centers in...Lasīt vairāk
Critics of narcology--as addiction medicine is called in Russia--decry it as being backward, hopelessly behind contemporary global medical practices in relation to addiction and substance abuse, and assume that its practitioners lack both professi...Lasīt vairāk
Sweeping in scope and conceptually ambitious, this book tells a story of infrastructure and of global flows of money, goods, and people....Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
(Izdošanas datums: 21-May-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801453236)
Sweeping in scope and conceptually ambitious, this book tells a story of infrastructure and of global flows of money, goods, and people....Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Apr-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801453298)
This book examines the special relationship between politics and design in Sweden, revealing in particular the cultural meanings this relationship holds for Swedish society....Lasīt vairāk
This book examines the special relationship between politics and design in Sweden, revealing in particular the cultural meanings this relationship holds for Swedish society....Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Nov-2014, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801452406)
In The Viral Network, Theresa MacPhail examines our collective fascination with and fear of viruses through the lens of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. In April 2009, a novel strain of H1N1 influenza virus resulting from a combination of bird, swine, and hu...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Nov-2013, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801452024)
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 effo...Lasīt vairāk
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 effo...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Sep-2013, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801451959)
Countries in sub-Saharan Africa were once dismissed by Western experts as being too poor and chaotic to benefit from the antiretroviral drugs that transformed the AIDS epidemic in the United States and Europe. Today, however, the region is courted...Lasīt vairāk
Countries in sub-Saharan Africa were once dismissed by Western experts as being too poor and chaotic to benefit from the antiretroviral drugs that transformed the AIDS epidemic in the United States and Europe. Today, however, the region is courted...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
(Izdošanas datums: 15-May-2013, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801451881)
News journalism is in the midst of radical transformation brought about by the spread of digital information and communication technology and the rise of neoliberalism. What does it look like, however, from the inside of a news organization? In ...Lasīt vairāk
Boyer (anthropology, Rice U.) deems office-based screenwork an aspect of news journalism that remains relatively opaque to both popular imagination and scholarly commentary, and believes newsmaking is equally imprinted by the hegemony of neoliberal...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
(Izdošanas datums: 15-May-2012, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801450785)
Government bureaucracies across the globe have become increasingly attuned in recent years to cultural diversity within their populations. Using culture as a category to process people and dispense services, however, can create its own problems an...Lasīt vairāk
Government bureaucracies across the globe have become increasingly attuned in recent years to cultural diversity within their populations. Using culture as a category to process people and dispense services, however, can create its own problems an...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Feb-2012, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801449932)
The 2010 WikiLeaks release of 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables has made it eminently clear that 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 Dipl...Lasīt vairāk
The 2010 WikiLeaks release of 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables has made it eminently clear that 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 Dipl...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Nov-2010, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801448508)
Rudnyckyjs book challenges widespread assumptions about contemporary Islam by showing how moderate Muslims in Southeast Asia are reinterpreting Islam not to reject modernity but to create business practices conducive to globalization....Lasīt vairāk
The Emotional and Spiritual Quotient (ESQ) spiritual-motivational training program at Indonesias Krakatau Steel combines Islamic principles with Western ideas of business leadership and life coaching. The program, developed in response to the countr...Lasīt vairāk
