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Thinking Infrastructures (Hardcover)
Martin Kornberger, Geoffrey C Bowker, Julia Elyachar, Andrea Mennicken, Peter Miller, …
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This volume introduces the notion of Thinking Infrastructures to
explore a broad range of phenomena that structure attention, shape
decision-making, and guide cognition: Thinking Infrastructures
configure entities (via tracing, tagging), organise knowledge (via
search engines), sort things out (via rankings and ratings), govern
markets (via calculative practices, including algorithms), and
configure preferences (via valuations such as recommender systems).
Thus, Thinking Infrastructures, we collectively claim in this
volume, inform and shape distributed and embodied cognition,
including collective reasoning, structuring of attention and
orchestration of decision-making.
What causes violent conflicts around the Middle East? All too
often, the answer is sectarianism--popularly viewed as a timeless
and intractable force that leads religious groups to conflict. In
Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon, Joanne Nucho shows how
wrong this perspective can be. Through in-depth research with local
governments, NGOs, and political parties in Beirut, she
demonstrates how sectarianism is actually recalibrated on a daily
basis through the provision of essential services and
infrastructures, such as electricity, medical care, credit, and the
planning of bridges and roads. Taking readers to a working-class,
predominantly Armenian suburb in northeast Beirut called Bourj
Hammoud, Nucho conducts extensive interviews and observations in
medical clinics, social service centers, shops, banking coops, and
municipal offices. She explores how group and individual access to
services depends on making claims to membership in the dominant
sectarian community, and she examines how sectarianism is not just
tied to ethnoreligious identity, but also class, gender, and
geography. Life in Bourj Hammoud makes visible a broader pattern in
which the relationships that develop while procuring basic needs
become a way for people to see themselves as part of the greater
public. Illustrating how sectarianism in Lebanon is not simply
about religious identity, as is commonly thought, Everyday
Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon offers a new look at how everyday
social exchanges define and redefine communities and conflicts.
What causes violent conflicts around the Middle East? All too
often, the answer is sectarianism--popularly viewed as a timeless
and intractable force that leads religious groups to conflict. In
Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon, Joanne Nucho shows how
wrong this perspective can be. Through in-depth research with local
governments, NGOs, and political parties in Beirut, she
demonstrates how sectarianism is actually recalibrated on a daily
basis through the provision of essential services and
infrastructures, such as electricity, medical care, credit, and the
planning of bridges and roads. Taking readers to a working-class,
predominantly Armenian suburb in northeast Beirut called Bourj
Hammoud, Nucho conducts extensive interviews and observations in
medical clinics, social service centers, shops, banking coops, and
municipal offices. She explores how group and individual access to
services depends on making claims to membership in the dominant
sectarian community, and she examines how sectarianism is not just
tied to ethnoreligious identity, but also class, gender, and
geography. Life in Bourj Hammoud makes visible a broader pattern in
which the relationships that develop while procuring basic needs
become a way for people to see themselves as part of the greater
public. Illustrating how sectarianism in Lebanon is not simply
about religious identity, as is commonly thought, Everyday
Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon offers a new look at how everyday
social exchanges define and redefine communities and conflicts.
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