Background: Although economic evaluation has been widely recognized as a key feature of
both health services and educational research, for many years there has been a paucity of …

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 explore what …

This paper addresses the unstable material and social environments that large-scale road
construction projects attempt to tame and fix in place as a way of exploring the affective force …

This article seeks to address how topological approaches to cultural change might be
combined with ethnographic analysis in order to suggest new ways of thinking empirically …

Since the 1960s, the notion of a singular global environmental crisis has been popularized
through the efforts of scientists, environmental activists, and the global news media. A …

Azan on the Moon is an in-depth anthropological study of people's lives along the Pamir
Highway in eastern Tajikistan. Constructed in the 1930s in rugged high-altitude terrain, the …

Andean Waterways explores the politics of natural resource use in the Peruvian Andes in
the context of climate change and neoliberal expansion. It does so through careful …

Frontier Road uses the history of one road in southern Colombia—known locally as “the
trampoline of death”—to demonstrate how state-building processes and practices have …

Money's materiality produces an ontological conundrum for social theory: should the
analysis of money foreground the objects used as money, or the abstract relations that …

In recent decades, corruption has emerged as a major cause of global inequality and an
important subject of social scientific research. This article argues that social psychologists …