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...Nikolas Kosmatopoulos In this article, I examine through ethnography one of the flagship techniques of the peace expertise in the Middle East and elsewhere, the so-called conflict resolution workshop. Faced with the widely recognized fact that the workshop in conflict resolution has become...

... knowledge worlds. [email protected] Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 logistics optimization expertise Islam Mecca During peak hajj and ʿ umrah seasons, a short bit of road surrounding Umm Al-Qura University transforms into a duty-free zone. Just past the ḥaram...

...Christina Dunbar-Hester This article considers media activism around low-power FM radio as hybrid formation, combining expertise with amateurism and management with self-organizing practice. Specifically, it ethnographically examines the technical and social practices of a group of activists who...

... and occupational health issues and the scientific expertise in the field of the regulation of chemicals. Downstream of these regulatory processes, the use of science‐based regulatory instruments implicitly steers regulatory policies in a direction that results in tolerance of certain risks (rendering them...

... interrogates a set of posters produced by the War Production Board and labor-management committees that articulate this particular history of ideas. By examining the reconfigurations of time and space, the incorporation of workers’ bodies and minds, and the campaign’s understandings of expertise and property...

... is to fundamentally devalue knowledge and expertise and assesses the impact of such devaluation on the democratic state form. Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 I am very grateful to the American Council of Learned Societies for a Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship, which supported work on this essay...

... in a national newspaper echoed this formulation. In an interview, he defended the expertise of the state agency by proclaiming it public: “What Coneval does is not part of the government or any political entity. It is all public.” For this supporter, Coneval's credibility hinged on the apparent distance between...

... interventions, ignorance can be a powerful form of expertise. Focusing on the role of science-based regulatory instruments in public and environmental health in the United States and France, Emmanuel Henry puts the state at the center of the study of agnotology. While scholars have focused on the role...

... experts applied their expertise. As such, aesthetic renderings of sustainability were instrumental in shaping how lofty ideals about sustainability were made concrete in particular ways and not others. Given this, dismissing green corporate architecture as mere branding may miss some of the important...

... on the way to the goal of specialized, professional expertise, it morphs from eternal verity to general point of entry. Few educators today even realize how deeply Taylorized are the structures of the research university that we have inherited. I mean this literally. Frederick Winslow Taylor’s theories...

... on revitalized memories of the colonial past. We close the issue with Omer Shah's article on the logistics of the Islamic Hajj, the annual convergence of millions of pilgrims from across the globe in the holy city of Mecca. The essay, titled “Optimizing Mecca: Expertise, Infrastructure, and Logistics...

... their defacement by right-wing vandals — rarely seen outside Russia. Varieties of violence committed in the name not of orthodoxy but of progress and expertise are at the heart of the second set of research essays, which opens with Andrew Herscher’s “Surveillant Witnessing.” Herscher suggests that human rights...

... T. Critchlow, The Brookings Institution, 1916 – 1952: Expertise and the Public Interest in a Democratic Society (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1985); and James A. Smith, Brookings at Seventy-­Five (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution...

...). For instance, who asserts which infrastructures are sustainable is as much a question of expertise as the forms of financial capital—such as green bonds—that are designed to achieve certain social and environmental goals while sidelining others (Tripathy 2017 ). Finance capitalism thus encodes humans...

.... 229 Public Culture Knowledge Coalitions In design, architecture, and environmental planning, forming coalitions between technical expertise and local knowledge is by no means unique to the incremental tradition. In nonfiction...

.... The conversion of the shadow economies of the poor into spaces for enterprise and profit is both complex and fragile. It requires elaborate practices of calcula- tion and rationalities of risk, as well as nimble forms of expertise. It requires...

...-driven policy. 2. This led Gil Eyal ( 2020 ) to ask, “Who speaks on behalf of the virus?” He highlights the disputes, the polarization around certain actors (Professor Raoult in France) and the models that produced divergent results. Expertise emerged at a time when it was not very clear who...

... of everything and of finance as the “self-­ in-­making.”47 Here is the active construction of subjects of risk and thereby of global capital markets. Here is also the self-­representation of expertise, an exam­ ple of how “contemporary financial...

... the lab into the everyday world, neuroscience as a new kind of expertise. Let me make a second comment about synthetic biology and vitalism. I still think the fieldwork is important. I don’t do fieldwork like an ethnographer, but I do spend a lot of my time with basic researchers in synthetic biology...

...; it was a necessary deployment of our war ma- chine precisely at a moment when, for the first time in the fifty years of the cold war, the possibility of actually reducing our defense program was proposed. If my “expertise” as a Bataille scholar can be marshalled here, it is because I cannot help but recall...