In this article, I focus on how the members of a Peruvian NGO – specializing in the implementation of fog catchers – mobilized the notion of “the project” to pursue their goals. While the fog catch...

Podcast Episode · Cultural Economy in the Kitchen · 05/12/2025 · 43m

Tokenization of everything? Exploring the limits of blockchain technologies in the governance of financial markets and assets

An expanded repost from Twitter/X

Harking back to Langdon Winner's now classic essay “Do artifacts have politics?,” my aim in this article is to ask a very similar question—namely, do artif...

The derisking state has by now emerged as the key aspirational agent of the energy transition. But what is the concept of risk involved in derisking? This article places debates about derisking wit...

The production of state legibility has been a prolific subject of study. However, most works have not paid much attention to the quotidian labor of the street-level bureaucrats that implement legibili...

Cambridge Core - African Studies - Money, Value, and the State

Guest essay by Stefan Eich

Innovation studies scholars use the concept of ‘spillovers’ to explain how ideas and people move among firms and industries and how regions form industrial clusters. Historians of technology use di...

A roundtable discussion with César Castillo-García, Matilde Ciolli, and José Antonio Galindo Domínguez

Based on an analysis of 300k opening posts to the popular image-based discussion forum r/PoliticalCompassMemes, in this paper we offer an empirical analysis of how the ‘political compass’ meme temp...

This special issue is hosted by the "Finance and Fiction" dossier of the b2o Review, which is edited by Arne De Boever and Mikkel Krause Frantzen.   Volume 6, Issue 1 (December 2024) Special Issue: Th...

June 20-21 2024. University of LausanneWorkshop Report The author would like to thank Tanja Schneider and Loïc Riom for their assistance in producing this report. What do a secret music concert ...

Published in Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)

After the boom: Finance and society studies in the 2020s and beyond - Volume 8 Issue 2

Economic activities that involve natural resources are often associated with precarious terms of employment, uneven relationships between local communities and state authorities and transregional i...

YouTube video by Economic Sociology and Political Economy

This paper utilizes Liliana Doganova’s book (Discounting the future: The ascendancy of a political technology, 2024, Zone Books) to explore the provocations science and technology studies scholars ...

In coastal Peru, fog has recently been re-apprehended as an alternative water source for residents on the urban periphery. This article describes how a local NGO’s fog capture project repurposed it...

Cambridge Core - Marketing - Market Studies

YouTube video by Centre for Philosophical Studies of History

Abstract. Twenty years ago, Walter Johnson warned historians not to rely on a concept that let both user and audience alike feel better without doing better. Th

The 2010s were an era of abundant capital for investors but limited opportunities to put it to profitable use. This paper traces the origins of dealing with the ‘problem’ of having to convert large...

Historians and anthropologists share a common problem of setting criteria for the validation of their interpretations. While many features are shared and explicit—for example, that a full range of da...