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Subversion, conversion, development : cross-cultural knowledge encounter and the politics of design

Title
Subversion, conversion, development : cross-cultural knowledge encounter and the politics of design / edited by James Leach and Lee Wilson.
ISBN
9780262027168 (hardcover : alk. paper)
026202716X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780262525831 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0262525836 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
Physical Description
viii, 257 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 10, 2014
Series
Infrastructures series.
Infrastructures series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Anthropology, cross-cultural encounter, and the politics of design / James Leach and Lee Wilson
2. Liminal futures : poem for islands at the edge / Laura Watts
3. Freifunk : when technology and politics assemble into subversion / Gregers Petersen
4. Postcolonial databasing? Subverting old appropriations, developing new associations / Helen Verran and Michael Christie
5. Sacred books in a digital age : a cross-cultural look from the heart of Asia to South America / Hildegard Diemberger and Stephen Hugh-Jones
6. Redeploying technologies : ICT for greater agency and capacity for political engagement in the Kelabit Highlands / Poline Bala
7. Making the invisible visible : designing technology for nonliterate hunter-gatherers / Jerome Lewis
8. Assembling diverse knowledges : trails and storied spaces in time / David Turnbull and Wade Chambers
9. Structuring the social : software design / Alan F. Blackwell.
10. Design for X : prediction and the embeddedness (or not) of research in technology production / Dawn Nafus
11. Engaging interests / Marilyn Strathern
12. Subversion, conversion, development : imaginaries, knowledge forms, and the uses of ICTs / James Leach and Lee Wilson.
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