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Who is Afraid of the Ontological Wolf?: Some Comments on an Ongoing Anthropological Debate by de Castro, Eduardo Viveiros

“…This article, which was delivered as the 2014 Annual Marilyn Strathern Lecture, outlines both some of the stimuli that led to the 'ontological turn' in…”
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With Endless Articulations: Conserving Biodiversity in the Infinity Mirror by Heatherington, Tracey

“…Abstract The evolution of information infrastructures has shaped nature conservation related to wild species, landscapes and collections of biological…”
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Afterword: From Number Politics to Infrastructure Politics: Notes on Context and Methods by Milan, Stefania

“…Abstract Data infrastructures are the scaffolding of the present. This afterword centres on this claim by broadening the question that animates the special…”
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Editorial by Chua, Liana, Buitron, Natalia, Cooper, Timothy

“…Reassuringly (or otherwise), the above paragraph reads more like the contents of a junk mailbox than an accurate depiction of our first special issue of 2024…”
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Editorial by Chua, Liana, Buitron, Natalia, Cooper, Timothy

“…Reassuringly (or otherwise), the above paragraph reads more like the contents of a junk mailbox than an accurate depiction of our first special issue of 2024…”
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Widening the Frame by Haapio-Kirk, Laura, Nesvaderani, Nat

“…Nora Wuttke's Hospital Echoes Installation, Lady David Gallery, SOAS, University of London (13 April–2 May 2023 Moreshin Allahyari, dir. 2020. She Who Knows…”
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Avoidable Deaths in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Quantifying Responsibility in Brazil by Rio Camargo, Alexandre de Paiva, Motta, Eugênia

“…Abstract Since March 2020, a huge quantity of data, rankings, charts and tables has been informing the ways we speak and act in the pandemic. This article…”
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Credit Is a Basket: On the Inclusion of Blood Donation in China's Social Credit System by Jiang, Qiuyu, Douglas-Jones, Rachel

“…Abstract In 2019, the National Health Commission of China announced a nation-wide plan to incorporate blood donation into the country's emerging informational…”
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Crafting Good Indicators: Human–Machine Entanglements in Brazil's 2022 Population Census by Kopper, Moisés, Duarte, Ulisses Corrêa

“…Abstract Big data analytics have radically transformed data collection protocols in population censuses. Yet despite the unprecedented degree of automation…”
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Introduction: Number Politics after Datafication by Kopper, Moisés, Knox, Hannah

“…Abstract For decades now, scholars of quantification have been exposing the rationalist and modernist operations that lend numbers their political qualities…”
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Safeguarding Data: The Data Consensus and the Public Good in Children's Social Services by Cearns, Jennifer, Knox, Hannah

“…Abstract Over the past decade, data-driven systems have transformed how UK public services engage with the population. This ethnographic study, conducted in…”
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Trust as affective infrastructure: Constructing the firm/community boundary in resource extraction by Zhang, Adela

“…Abstract What is trust to a mining company? This article interrogates the effects of conceptualising trust as essential infrastructure for large-scale…”
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Humanitarian technologies of trust by Billaud, Julie

“…Abstract What is trust, and how is it established in humanitarian operations? Why do humanitarians consider trust a vital resource in their work? Building on…”
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Prejudice and Tolerance in Ulster: A Study of Neighbours and 'Strangers' in a Border Community by Gault, Matthew A.L

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Susan Drucker-Brown by Strathern, Marilyn

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Editorial by Chua, Liana, Cooper, Timothy

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When partners are suspect(s): Trust, transparency, and racialised suspicion in global health infrastructures by Biruk, Cal

“…Abstract This article considers how concerns about trust in global health infrastructures—and the surveillance tools they justify—emerge from suspicions…”
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Editorial by Chua, Liana, Cooper, Timothy

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Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography by Nadeem, Bilal

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Imposing Aid: Emergency Assistance to Refugees by Scott-Smith, Tom

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