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Published: 14 September 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9781478002017-012
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0201-7
Published: 17 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7309-4
... demo European Commission research and development information technologies ...
Book Chapter

By Paul Wenzel Geissler
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 19 January 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7627-9
... Gambia clinical trials medical research government development ...
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By Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Series: Experimental Futures
Published: 10 February 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7328-5
... crisis financialization innovation mergers and acquisitions multinational corporations patent cliff pharmaceutical pricing research and development speculative capitalism surplus health ...
Published: 17 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373094-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7309-4
... 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...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 19 January 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376279-011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7627-9
... as the tropics in miniature. Gambia clinical trials medical research government development ...
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By Aihwa Ong
Published: 07 October 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373643-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7364-3
... This chapter explores the world of stem cell research, a high-stakes field of rapidly changing innovations that poses difficult technical and ethical challenges for developing immunology. The ethical debates over stem cell research in the United States, combined with historical strengths...
Published: 01 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374381-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7438-1
... During the years after the war, many anthropologists transformed elements of their wartime service into governmental research, policy, development, or intelligence work. The U.S. State and Defense Departments at times drew on anthropological expertise to implement foreign aid projects...
Published: 21 April 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7291-2
... The chapter reflects on how the book’s findings should change the goals of development, pushing researchers and practitioners to move beyond single-loop learning, focused on reforming projects, to double-loop learning, focused on questioning the underlying values, goals, and power structures...
Published: 01 April 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7438-1
... of the research trajectories developed during the war, with little thought about the shifting political context of the Cold War. anthropological funding military anthropology CIA anthropology CIA history Cold War economy Pentagon funding anthropology and occupations postwar ethnography anthropological...
Published: 21 April 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372912-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7291-2
... This chapter reflects on the implications of an agent-based approach for how we study and pursue development in the global south. It demonstrates that rather than viewing development as a northern intervention into the passive global south, we should instead see it as a set of relationships...
Published: 17 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7309-4
... floors glass ceiling 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...
Published: 01 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374381-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7438-1
... Cold War’s political developments with views linked more closely to the world of the previous war. Postwar changes on campus, anthropologists contributions to the Marshall Plan, and the Japanese occupation found anthropologists continuing many of the research trajectories developed during the war...
Published: 07 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375029-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7502-9
... What does social diversity entail for development? This chapter provides the conceptual and theoretical frameworks through which this question will be addressed in the book and provides an overview of the methodologies employed and the context for the collaborative research process...
Series: Experimental Futures
Published: 10 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373285-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7328-5
... pharmaceutical pricing research and development speculative capitalism surplus health ...
Published: 14 October 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373933-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7393-3
... Dr. Snyderman saw the need for strategic planning to meet the opportunities and challenges posed by changes in the external environment. This resulted in the first formal planning process by any major entity in Duke University and the development of a Long Range Plan. The Plan included...
Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
Published: 25 March 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374404-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7440-4
... This chapter makes a sustained theoretical argument as to why space and place matter in social movement research and how both concepts shape, enable, or otherwise constrain resistance practices. Drawing on Lefebvre’s work on space and Agnew’s threefold approach to place, it develops a “critical...
Published: 01 January 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373605-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7360-5
... areas and the various uses of a Boasian notion of culture and the assessment of intellectual capacity as a lever for developing a vision of a more independent Māori social development. Indigenous agency is a focus of this chapter, particularly in relation to the Māori politicians and scholars involved...
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By David H. Price
Published: 01 April 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7438-1
...Preface The concept of dual use science is introduced as instances in which unintended, negative applications of scientific research are realized and used; often these are relationships in which academic theoretical developments are transformed into commercial products or military...
Published: 01 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374381-014
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7438-1
... The final chapter evaluates the impacts of the dual use relationships, connecting anthropological research with Cold War military and intelligence projects, which impacted the development of American anthropology and a variety of governmental agencies and projects. Anthropology and intelligence...