Permafrost Politics: Toward a Relational Materiality and Design of Arctic Ground
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DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2020.1831461
Abstract: ABSTRACT Permafrost—continuously frozen ground for more than two years—is one of the defining landscape elements in the Arctic. In the U.S., its development as an idea has parallelled mid-twentieth-century territorial struggles in Alaska and is… read more here.
Keywords: permafrost politics; ground; permafrost; arctic ground ... See more keywords
Risk, mourning, politics: Toward a transnational critical conception of grief for COVID-19 deaths in Iran
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DOI: 10.1177/00113921211007153
Abstract: This article examines the case of COVID-19 deaths and grief in Iran in order to shed light on how the biological, social and political ‘risks of contagion’ combine to impact mourning and grief. As a… read more here.
Keywords: mourning politics; risk mourning; politics toward; iran ... See more keywords
Big Data Ethics and Politics: Toward New Understandings
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DOI: 10.1177/0894439318810734
Abstract: The hype around big data does not seem to abate nor do the scandals. Privacy breaches in the collection, use, and sharing of big data have affected all the major tech players, be it Facebook,… read more here.
Keywords: new understandings; big data; toward new; data ethics ... See more keywords