More than any other facet of resilience, social resilience raises the inherent tension within
the concept between identity or persistence, and transformation. Is a community the people …

Contrary to optimistic visions of a free internet for all, the problem of the 'digital divide'–the
disparity between those with access to internet technology and those without–has persisted …

Frontline health workers are the first and often the only access point to basic health care
services in low-and-middle income countries. However, the work and the issues frontline …

For a long time, a common opinion among policy-makers was that the digital divide problem
would be solved when a country's Internet connection rate reaches saturation. However …

Social Change in a Material World offers a new, practice theoretical account of social
change and its explanation. Extending the author's earlier account of social life, and drawing …

In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to
demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain …

The Anthropocene has emerged as perhaps the scientific concept of the new millennium.
Going further than earlier conceptions of the human–environment relationship …

summary Roads matter to people. This claim is central to the work of Penny Harvey and
Hannah Knox, who in this book use the example of highway building in South America to …

This is not an article about how the world is breaking down. We all see it, of course: the
sudden collapse of dams and bridges; the slow deterioration of power grids and sewer …

In our" wireless" world it is easy to take the importance of the undersea cable systems for
granted, but the stakes of their successful operation are huge, as they are responsible for …