The poverty of ethical AI: impact sourcing and AI supply chains

J Muldoon, C Cant, M Graham, F Ustek Spilda - AI & SOCIETY, 2023 - Springer
Impact sourcing is the practice of employing socio-economically disadvantaged individuals
at business process outsourcing centres to reduce poverty and create secure jobs. One of …

Contours of racial capitalism, urban geography, and infrastructure

C Fonseca Alfaro - Geography Compass, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Racial capitalism has received much attention within the social sciences over the past few
decades, including fields such as urban geography and infrastructural studies. This state of …

Infrastructured bodies: Between violence and fugitivity

G Lesutis, M Kaika - Progress in Human Geography, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article traces the trajectory of critical geographical scholarship on the body's
intertwinement with infrastructure systems. In doing so, it argues that although the body is …

Towards a critical‐conceptual analysis of 'research culture'

F Callard - Area, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Universities and policymakers increasingly use 'research culture'and 'research
environment'to govern as well as describe research. Both terms help frame who is …

Working toward infrastructural citizenship: state-society relations and community waste labor in Cape Town

K Stokes - Urban Geography, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
As a conceptual device, infrastructural citizenship looks to bridge performed and legal
interpretations of citizenship, recognizing infrastructure as a space where citizenship is …

Urban maintenance as compromise: Coming to terms with the multispecies city

HF Wilson - Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The paper examines the role of maintenance and repair in the multispecies city as central to
understanding the relationship between non-human life and infrastructure. The focus of the …

Wild Hogs in the Water: Contested Infrastructural Ecologies of Reservoir Storage in Texas

S Randle - Antipode, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Reservoirs are developed to store water in reserve for future use. But once built, reservoir
sites inevitably hold more than just water, often serving as a key habitat for a range of …

“It is for home but we use it for work”: intra-urban comparison of infrastructure and home-based enterprises in Accra

EF Amankwaa, KV Gough, M Oteng-Ababio - Urban Geography, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Urban infrastructure is crucial for livelihoods and economic growth, however, access
remains fragmented. Such differential infrastructure provision within cities necessitates intra …

Automation and aesthetic labour: the micro-mobilities of work in airport self-service

W Lin - Mobilities, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Recently, the concept of mobile labour has garnered increasing attention among mobilities
scholars. Yet, the preponderance of research has emphasised workers' movements that are …

Marine pilots and the choreographic work of seaport mobilities

C Gibson, A Warren - Mobilities, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Research on cargomobilities has emphasised containerisation, algorithmic management,
and the cost-driven calculus of logistics firms. Less visible is the necessary human labour …