In Kenya, if you cannot pay your hospital bill you don’t go home. You are detained within the hospital until your bill, which can be inherited and accrues interest for each day you are there, is paid. This practice is called body detention and is the central healthcare phenomenon this research investigates. This dissertation constellates how antibl...
En esta tesis me propongo identificar y analizar los mecanismos de control empleados para el ejercicio de la disciplina y el control de la sociedad española y colonial durante la primera posguerra, período entre 1939 y 1959, con un enfoque en el dolor físico. Así, me propongo encontrar cómo se manifiesta, cómo se articula y cómo se emplea el evento...
Complex policy problems like climate change and illicit finance require a diverse methodological repertoire and an agnostic approach to selecting the appropriate analytical tool to accomplish discrete inferential tasks. Drawing from the disciplines of political science, economics, and statistical data science, this dissertation tackles three distin...
Mobile phone ubiquity in much of the developing world has turned from a question of when rather than if. Some of the poorest and most remote parts of the world are being connected to the global telecommunications network to enable an unprecedented ability to both observe and interact with previously hard-to-reach populations at scale. While many mo...
This thesis discusses the value and meanings of cultural artifacts from the Akan material culture known as gold weight. Before colonial contact, the gold weights were essential objects in the everyday lives of the Ashanti, also known as the Akan people of Ghana, West Africa. The weights were called abrammuo in the Akan language, made of brass alloy...
This is an ethnographic exploration of care in Uganda, from everyday tending, to bio-bureaucracies, to inter-personal relationships. I focus on traditional birth attendants (TBA’s), who are local medical experts carrying significant cultural capital, in order to understand civic care and its entanglements. And I study birthing events and the dynami...
Recovering from a decades-long civil war, the Angolan government agreed in the early 2000s to contract the majority of projects under its National Reconstruction Program to Chinese state-owned enterprises, in exchange for multiple billions of dollars in oil-backed loans. This partnership has facilitated migration and commerce between China to Angol...
Recovering from a decades-long civil war, the Angolan government agreed in the early 2000s to contract the majority of projects under its National Reconstruction Program to Chinese state-owned enterprises, in exchange for multiple billions of dollars in oil-backed loans. This partnership has facilitated migration and commerce between China to Angol...
Recovering from a decades-long civil war, the Angolan government agreed in the early 2000s to contract the majority of projects under its National Reconstruction Program to Chinese state-owned enterprises, in exchange for multiple billions of dollars in oil-backed loans. This partnership has facilitated migration and commerce between China to Angol...
This is an ethnographic exploration of care in Uganda, from everyday tending, to bio-bureaucracies, to inter-personal relationships. I focus on traditional birth attendants (TBA’s), who are local medical experts carrying significant cultural capital, in order to understand civic care and its entanglements. And I study birthing events and the dynami...
