This book advances the practice and theory of design ethnography. It presents a
methodologically adventurous and conceptually robust approach to interventional and …

This chapter focuses on how Automated Decision-Making (ADM) and Artificial Intelligence
(AI) are being imagined by stakeholders in the energy industry and policy, as part of a new …

There is a growing maintenance debt of ageing and critical infrastructures in many
municipalities in European welfare states. In this article, we use the multidimensional …

If the Anthropocene is the Capitalocene, then one of its signature attributes in the drive for
profits is the abstraction of life itself and of the human/nonhuman relations that sustain it …

When trying to theorise the development of infrastructures, research in infrastructure studies
has long demonstrated that the evolution of a technical network that has proven successful …

How is digitalization of the offshore oil industry fundamentally changing how we understand
work and ways of knowing? Digitalization sits at the forefront of public and academic …

Colonial empires, scientists, philanthropists and Hollywood studios have long sustained an
image of islands as remote places with unique ecologies and cultures, experimental labs, or …

In science and technology studies, an important amount of research work has described the
place of technology in modern societies by focusing on a particular form of failure …

This paper examines the social, technological, and emotional labor of maintaining China's
data-driven governance broadly, and dynamic zero-COVID management in particular …

A number of scholars within the social sciences have remarked that we are in the midst of
both an 'infrastructural moment'–with massive symbolic and financial investment in …