... shifting sociopolitical and relational networks and fuel practices of knowledge brokering. Given the inexorable necessity of water, water knowledge is power. Controlling the dispersed networks by which that knowledge is accessed and mobilized becomes the stakes over which political players battle...

... knowledge broker infrastructure expertise risk ...

... This chapter explores the relationship between water infrastructure and political authority in Mumbai. Given that no one is quite sure who or what makes the water come, but everyone knows that it comes “because of politics,” much effort is made by local-level knowledge brokers (who tend...

... Gabriella Coleman describes herself alternately as a translator, a broker, a gopher, and a trickster as she responds to solicitations by journalists. Studying a secretive network of hackers rendered both her knowledge and her mediation particularly coveted. Her public contribution mainly...

...Strategies Gabriella Coleman describes herself alternately as a translator, a broker, a gopher, and a trickster as she responds to solicitations by journalists. Studying a secretive network of hackers rendered both her knowledge and her mediation particularly coveted. Her public contribution...