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Doing Dutch Wax cloth : practice, politics, and 'the new Africa'
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
This dissertation examines how Africa's place in the world is negotiated in different forms of material engagement with Dutch Wax cloth--designing, advertising, selling, buying, and tailoring-along the cloth's trajectory ...
Salvage cartographies : mapping, futures, and landscapes in northwest British Columbia
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
This dissertation examines how the proliferation of digital mapping technologies and the contraction of government research institutions have reformatted contests over resources, sovereignty, and local belonging in the ...
Caring for star-children : autism, families, and ethics in contemporary China
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Caring for Star-Children: Autism, Families, and Ethics in Contemporary China studies the emergence and development of family caregiving for autistic children after 1982, when autism was first diagnosed separately in two ...
Intimate cartographies : body maps and the epistemic encounter in China and Britain, 1893-1985
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
This dissertation explores how body maps served as a site for theoretical, experimental, and cultural entanglements between "Chinese medicine" and "biomedicine." It explores how body atlases produced under varying social ...
Algorithmic detectives against child trafficking : data, entrapment, and the new global policing network
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
My dissertation explores how "anti-trafficking" has emerged as a global network of humanitarian professionals, law enforcement, and software companies collaborating to address the issue of child exploitation and trafficking ...
Governing the shark : predators and people in the twentieth century and beyond
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
This dissertation examines the history of shark-human interactions in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It argues that the mid-twentieth century onward saw a series of conjunctures -technological, cultural, and ...
Platformizing higher education : computer science and the making of MOOC infrastructures
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
This dissertation investigates the role of software in institutional transformation using the example of Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs. It ethnographically tracks the development of the software infrastructure being ...