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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 ...
Humanizing autonomy : social scientists' and engineers' futures for robotic cars
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Highly automated cars -- unlike robots in factories -- must operate in existing social spaces, which are complex and hard to control. Unlike household robots, these systems are also fast and dangerous. The fundamental ...
The work of art in the age of its technoscientific re-enhancement : recasting light, Colloids, and microbes for art and heritage conservation in U.S. and Italian laboratories
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
This ethnography tracks a diverse set of scientific practices that have developed new technologies for the conservation of artworks and cultural heritage. I examine how scientists in physics, chemistry, and biology have ...
Twitter and the body parodic : global acts of re-creation and recreation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
This dissertation investigates Twitter parody accounts as a form of social critique and linguistic play across English, Japanese, and Arabic-one that is collaboratively created by the users, policymakers, and architects ...
Making biosecurity, making Mexico : an ethnography of biological invasion
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
This dissertation tracks what happens when biology, that is, both life forms and knowledge about them, becomes the object of security. While increasing global traffic has led to a greater degree of movement of people, ...
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 ...
The kernel of doubt : agricultural biotechnology, braided temporalities, and agrarian environments in India
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Genetically modified (GM) cotton, Bt cotton was introduced in India in 2002 through a joint venture company, Mahyco-Monsanto Biotech (India) Private Limited (MMB). It is a collaboration between the Indian agricultural ...
Meditations in an emergency : social scientists and the problem of conflict in Cold War America
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Through the mode of conceptual history, this dissertation examines some of the forms dissent could take within academic social science in the United States from roughly 1945-1970. The concept in question is "conflict." ...
Empire's metropolis : money time & space in Colonial Bombay, 1870-1930
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
The thesis utilises newly available legal and municipal archives to study the historical geography of colonial Bombay through five interlocking themes and periods from 1870-1930. This spans the period between the boom and ...