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... Chapter 6 examines how the “need-to-know” protocols set out by the IOM as information management guidelines for human trafficking victim assistance transformed the assistance process for grassroots NGO caseworkers in Japan and the Philippines, affecting both their relationships...

... In recent years, the European Commission (EC) has used various forms of public demonstrations, including technological demos, to manage its research and development programs. Based on sociological observations of one of these programs in the field of information technologies, this chapter shows...

... essential in England, France, and Germany's colonial governance, fingerprinting, photographs, criminal files, and other form of biometrics and information management were relied on heavily by the US police. These methods created “paper suspects” capable of being read and deciphered by police, even while...

... auxiliaries”—the International Missionary Department (1923), the Women’s Council (1952), and the Ministers’ and Deacons’ Wives Guild (1956). This examination of women’s intersecting organizational and spiritual labor shows that formal and informal management by women at microlevels (re-) produces doctrinal...

.... Drawing on psychoanalytic theories of trauma, economic understandings of debt, and philosophical models of denotation and reference, I contend that contemporary Chinese society is shaped by the mutual imbrication of two distinct models of social organization and information management implicit...

... This chapter provides an organizational analysis of the Fraternity, a foreign-funded but locally founded and locally managed grassroots NGO that grew out of indigenous women’s collective action in the Presbyterian Church. Mayan women of the Fraternity mobilized within religious spheres to push...

... The chapter argues that there is a core affinity between conspiracy theory and critical theory. Arguing against Richard Hofstadter that there is an easy line of demarcation between the two, the introduction to Conspiracy/Theory asks how the individual can manage knowing in a world...

... of denotation and reference, I contend that contemporary Chinese society is shaped by the mutual imbrication of two distinct models of social organization and information management implicit in the traditional Maoist hukou model and the contemporary neoliberal economy, respectively. The novel’s migrant...

... As the politics of social exclusion, and ultimately of social death, unfold in Bucharest through the inability to participate in consumer practices, the chapter examines the homeless’s efforts to manage their boredom, as much as their poverty, by seeking out stimulation. The chapter explores...

... This chapter uses ethnographic observation in corporate offices and interviews with programmers and managers from India, Germany, Australia, and the United States to show how race is refracted and reimagined through evaluations of worker quality. It explores the ways that race is deployed around...

... This chapter shows the widely felt sense of boredom among Bucharest’s homeless population to be not just psychosocial but also infrastructural. The chapter shows boredom to be entangled with the planning and development of new urban spaces to manage Bucharest’s growing homeless population...

... in a classified collection of annotated “pictures.” This watershed in mapping and data management dates to 1460, when officials in Venice decreed that accurate knowledge of place for the entire empire should be handily available in drawings for those with decision-making authority in the metropole. The essay...

... The turn of the twenty-first century marked the consolidation of the cybernetic border as the hegemonic regime in the United States. Described by government and elected officials and technicians as “smart borders,” this technopolitical regime operated through networked information technologies...

... of the couple left the pension until 7 pm. The team divided into two shifts lest the monotony of sitting in a car and a café across the street wear down their concentration. Brian, a member of the team, also enlisted the support of the family owners of the pension, who also managed the establishment. Throughout...

..., affective experiences of the 1952 Cairo Fire, changing logics behind rent controls, the 1992 earthquake as a (mis)managed disaster, and the city's sensorial experiences with industrialization and vehicle-based infrastructures transformed how different groups came to relate to and value property...

... of that object of research. In recent years, the European Commission (EC) has used various forms of public demonstrations, including technological demos, to manage its research and development programs. Based on sociological observations of one of these programs in the field of information technologies...

... Comerciantes create domestic spaces in their puestos and on the street to manage the multiple responsibilities of work and child care. space family childcare gender ...

..., especially those from elsewhere. political cartoons technology German green card German Orientalism racialization This chapter uses ethnographic observation in corporate offices and interviews with programmers and managers from India, Germany, Australia, and the United States to show how...