Hannah Knox
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3594808 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Hannah Knox |
| NOMBRES | Hannah |
| APELLIDO | Knox |
| FIRMA | KNOX H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Manchester |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 559 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Concept
In this short conversation, anthropologists Tone Walford (UCL) and Hannah Knox (University of Manchester) discuss how they came to study data in their research and how they have learned to approach it as an object of ethnographic attention
Alignment and Articulation Work in Computer Mediated Organization
The concept of ‘alignment’ has been commonly used to refer to the re-organizations of the world deemed necessary in order to accommodate the workings of complex technological systems. However, such re-organizations also, and inevitably, dis-organize the settings where such technologies are deployed. This, in turn, incites further orderings – and thus further dis-orderings. Complex (if often invisible) patterns of ‘articulation work’ typically eme…
L’anthropologie comme infra-imagination
Infrastructure
Infrastructures are the arteries of our contemporary world: roads, railways, airports, ports, pipelines, fibre optics cables, data, and logistics centres. Built above and below ground, they connect, channel, and, at times, halt the movement of humans, commodities, and resources that populate the earth. Infrastructures can also be immaterial: software, flows of data, and capital and the systems that organise them. A most basic definition can be gl…
Technology, Environment, and the Ends of Knowledge
Traversing the infrastructures of digital life
This chapter explores the infrastructural qualities inherent to the experience of living with contemporary digital technologies. Communications protocols and programming languages, also infra-structure technological devices, making the interoperability of particular platforms possible and creating the basis for contemporary ways of communicating and socialising. Digital infrastructure includes, therefore, not only the wires and cables that suppor…
Introduction 2.0
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores contours of the emerging subfield of digital anthropology. It outlines six core themes that they identified as characterising digital anthropology, extending their earlier work on cell phones and the internet The book provides a manifesto for a particular kind of social or cultural anthropology, arguing for a holistic fo…
Neglected Transportation Infrastructure
Verkhnemarkovo, a small Siberian town located on an oil field in Russia’s Irkutsk region, is plagued by bad roads and limited mobility. This article explores the relationship between corporate social responsibility and the wellbeing of individuals and communities, with a focus on transport and mobility infrastructure. Some oil companies, such as Irkutsk Oil Company, are tied to the sustainability standards of international financial institutions.…
Digital Anthropology
Digital Anthropology, 2nd Edition explores how human and digital can be explored in relation to one another within issues as diverse as social media use, virtual worlds, hacking, quantified self, blockchain, digital environmentalism and digital representation. The book challenges the prevailing moral universal of “the digital age” by exploring emergent anxieties about the global spread of new technological forms, the cultural qualities of digital…
Thinking Like a Climate
Drawing on ethnographic research with policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England, Hannah Knox confronts the challenges climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics.
Thinking Like a Climate
ins and outs of local politics, and for reminding this anthropologist that in spite of all the critiques of culture that anthropologists have explored, there is still something profoundly cultural about the challenges that climate change poses.This has challenged me to return to the concept of culture and to reconsider representation as part and parcel of what climate change is as a phenomenon.Thank you also to Marc Hudson for helping me navigate…
Ethnography for a data-saturated world
Data is not just the stuff of social scientific method; it is the stuff of everyday life. The presence of digital data in an ever widening range of human relationships profoundly unsettles notions of expertise for both ethnographers and data scientists alike. This collection situates digital data in broader knowledge-production practices. It asks about the kinds of social worlds that data scientists are creating as the profession coalesces, and l…
Roads
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 large public infrastructural projects can tell us about contemporary state formation, social relations, and emerging political economies. Roads focuses on two main sites: the interoceanic highway currently under construction between Brazil and Peru, a major public/private …
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age explores the nature of digital objects in museums, asking us to question our assumptions about the material, social and political foundations of digital practices. Through four wide-ranging chapters, each focused on a single object ? a box, pen, effigy and cloak ? this short, accessible book explores the legacies of earlier museum practices of collection, older forms of media (from dioramas to photography…
Thinking like a climate
This paper explores the ontological implications of global climate change as climate science becomes grounds for politics. Prompted by parallels between what I call ‘climate thinking’ and recent philosophical work on the materiality of scientific practice, the paper draws on the work of Karen Barad to explore the ontological contours of scientific descriptions of anthropogenic climate change and the implications of this ontology as it gets taken …
Political materials
This paper introduces the special issue 'Political Materials: Rethinking Environment, Remaking Theory', by posing the question of just what kinds of analytical challenges and conceptual possibilities are being established by large scale environmental processes. We consider how the insights of science and technology studies and its long record of thinking about how to incorporate non-humans into social theory might need to be extended in thinking …
Footprints in the City
This article traces the ways in which climate change, conceived as a socio-material process, works to produce new objects and subjects of political intervention. Building on the idea that climate change has become constructed as a particular kind of population-induced energy crisis, the article explores how the social problematic provoked by anthropogenic climate change relates to "biopolitical" understandings of the relationship between the stat…
The Enchantments of Infrastructure
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 of roads as technologies for delivering progress and development. Drawing from our ethnography of the construction of two roads in Peru, we trace the disruptive and destabilising processes through which roads come to hold the promise of transformation. We approach…
From play to knowledge
It is our great pleasure to introduce this themed issue of Anthropology Matters. The five articles assembled here developed out of a workshop held at the University of Manchester, which set out to explore the role of play in ethnographic research and its transformation into different forms of knowledge. The impetus for this event had been provided by the fact that the process of conducting ethnographic research is commonly referred to as 'fieldwo…
Otherwise Engaged
This article explores the cultural framings that all too frequently pass un-noticed in standard cost-benefit accounts of development economics. Our purpose is not simply to add our voice to those who argue for the importance of ‘bringing culture back in’, for we assume that in contexts of modern development economics ‘the cultural’ cannot simply be added to the technical or the economic, as these perspectives are explicitly elaborated as an abstr…
Scales of Place and Networks
Much has been made of the spacetransforming and spacedefying characteristics of information and communications technologies. This focus tends to separate the spatial characteristics of these technologies from those of the Euclidean world; it also takes the spatial characteristics of the Euclidean world for granted. Yet anthropologists have shown that place making in any spatial context is a complicated process, always involving an entanglement of…
Socialism in Britain
Imitative participation and the politics of 'joining in
In this paper I explore the ways in which participation as a research methodology is challenged by new kinds of anthropological enquiry and consider, from my own experiences, what the implications of these challenges might be for our expectations of how participation contributes to the construction of anthropological knowledge. I look at the ways in which different forms of participation affect what it is possible for the ethnographer to know, an…
The Enchantments of Infrastructure
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 of roads as technologies for delivering progress and development. Drawing from our ethnography of the construction of two roads in Peru, we trace the disruptive and destabilising processes through which roads come to hold the promise of transformation. We approach…
Roads
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 large public infrastructural projects can tell us about contemporary state formation, social relations, and emerging political economies. Roads focuses on two main sites: the interoceanic highway currently under construction between Brazil and Peru, a major public/private …
Scales of Place and Networks
Much has been made of the spacetransforming and spacedefying characteristics of information and communications technologies. This focus tends to separate the spatial characteristics of these technologies from those of the Euclidean world; it also takes the spatial characteristics of the Euclidean world for granted. Yet anthropologists have shown that place making in any spatial context is a complicated process, always involving an entanglement of…
Otherwise Engaged
This article explores the cultural framings that all too frequently pass un-noticed in standard cost-benefit accounts of development economics. Our purpose is not simply to add our voice to those who argue for the importance of ‘bringing culture back in’, for we assume that in contexts of modern development economics ‘the cultural’ cannot simply be added to the technical or the economic, as these perspectives are explicitly elaborated as an abstr…
Digital Anthropology
Digital Anthropology, 2nd Edition explores how human and digital can be explored in relation to one another within issues as diverse as social media use, virtual worlds, hacking, quantified self, blockchain, digital environmentalism and digital representation. The book challenges the prevailing moral universal of “the digital age” by exploring emergent anxieties about the global spread of new technological forms, the cultural qualities of digital…
Thinking like a climate
This paper explores the ontological implications of global climate change as climate science becomes grounds for politics. Prompted by parallels between what I call ‘climate thinking’ and recent philosophical work on the materiality of scientific practice, the paper draws on the work of Karen Barad to explore the ontological contours of scientific descriptions of anthropogenic climate change and the implications of this ontology as it gets taken …
Political materials
This paper introduces the special issue 'Political Materials: Rethinking Environment, Remaking Theory', by posing the question of just what kinds of analytical challenges and conceptual possibilities are being established by large scale environmental processes. We consider how the insights of science and technology studies and its long record of thinking about how to incorporate non-humans into social theory might need to be extended in thinking …
Thinking Like a Climate
ins and outs of local politics, and for reminding this anthropologist that in spite of all the critiques of culture that anthropologists have explored, there is still something profoundly cultural about the challenges that climate change poses.This has challenged me to return to the concept of culture and to reconsider representation as part and parcel of what climate change is as a phenomenon.Thank you also to Marc Hudson for helping me navigate…
Footprints in the City
This article traces the ways in which climate change, conceived as a socio-material process, works to produce new objects and subjects of political intervention. Building on the idea that climate change has become constructed as a particular kind of population-induced energy crisis, the article explores how the social problematic provoked by anthropogenic climate change relates to "biopolitical" understandings of the relationship between the stat…
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age explores the nature of digital objects in museums, asking us to question our assumptions about the material, social and political foundations of digital practices. Through four wide-ranging chapters, each focused on a single object ? a box, pen, effigy and cloak ? this short, accessible book explores the legacies of earlier museum practices of collection, older forms of media (from dioramas to photography…
Imitative participation and the politics of 'joining in
In this paper I explore the ways in which participation as a research methodology is challenged by new kinds of anthropological enquiry and consider, from my own experiences, what the implications of these challenges might be for our expectations of how participation contributes to the construction of anthropological knowledge. I look at the ways in which different forms of participation affect what it is possible for the ethnographer to know, an…
Socialism in Britain
Scales of Place and Networks
Much has been made of the spacetransforming and spacedefying characteristics of information and communications technologies. This focus tends to separate the spatial characteristics of these technologies from those of the Euclidean world; it also takes the spatial characteristics of the Euclidean world for granted. Yet anthropologists have shown that place making in any spatial context is a complicated process, always involving an entanglement of…
Otherwise Engaged
This article explores the cultural framings that all too frequently pass un-noticed in standard cost-benefit accounts of development economics. Our purpose is not simply to add our voice to those who argue for the importance of ‘bringing culture back in’, for we assume that in contexts of modern development economics ‘the cultural’ cannot simply be added to the technical or the economic, as these perspectives are explicitly elaborated as an abstr…
From play to knowledge
It is our great pleasure to introduce this themed issue of Anthropology Matters. The five articles assembled here developed out of a workshop held at the University of Manchester, which set out to explore the role of play in ethnographic research and its transformation into different forms of knowledge. The impetus for this event had been provided by the fact that the process of conducting ethnographic research is commonly referred to as 'fieldwo…
The Enchantments of Infrastructure
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 of roads as technologies for delivering progress and development. Drawing from our ethnography of the construction of two roads in Peru, we trace the disruptive and destabilising processes through which roads come to hold the promise of transformation. We approach…
Footprints in the City
This article traces the ways in which climate change, conceived as a socio-material process, works to produce new objects and subjects of political intervention. Building on the idea that climate change has become constructed as a particular kind of population-induced energy crisis, the article explores how the social problematic provoked by anthropogenic climate change relates to "biopolitical" understandings of the relationship between the stat…
Thinking like a climate
This paper explores the ontological implications of global climate change as climate science becomes grounds for politics. Prompted by parallels between what I call ‘climate thinking’ and recent philosophical work on the materiality of scientific practice, the paper draws on the work of Karen Barad to explore the ontological contours of scientific descriptions of anthropogenic climate change and the implications of this ontology as it gets taken …
Political materials
This paper introduces the special issue 'Political Materials: Rethinking Environment, Remaking Theory', by posing the question of just what kinds of analytical challenges and conceptual possibilities are being established by large scale environmental processes. We consider how the insights of science and technology studies and its long record of thinking about how to incorporate non-humans into social theory might need to be extended in thinking …
Ethnography for a data-saturated world
Data is not just the stuff of social scientific method; it is the stuff of everyday life. The presence of digital data in an ever widening range of human relationships profoundly unsettles notions of expertise for both ethnographers and data scientists alike. This collection situates digital data in broader knowledge-production practices. It asks about the kinds of social worlds that data scientists are creating as the profession coalesces, and l…
Roads
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 large public infrastructural projects can tell us about contemporary state formation, social relations, and emerging political economies. Roads focuses on two main sites: the interoceanic highway currently under construction between Brazil and Peru, a major public/private …
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age explores the nature of digital objects in museums, asking us to question our assumptions about the material, social and political foundations of digital practices. Through four wide-ranging chapters, each focused on a single object ? a box, pen, effigy and cloak ? this short, accessible book explores the legacies of earlier museum practices of collection, older forms of media (from dioramas to photography…
Thinking Like a Climate
Drawing on ethnographic research with policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England, Hannah Knox confronts the challenges climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics.
Thinking Like a Climate
ins and outs of local politics, and for reminding this anthropologist that in spite of all the critiques of culture that anthropologists have explored, there is still something profoundly cultural about the challenges that climate change poses.This has challenged me to return to the concept of culture and to reconsider representation as part and parcel of what climate change is as a phenomenon.Thank you also to Marc Hudson for helping me navigate…
Traversing the infrastructures of digital life
This chapter explores the infrastructural qualities inherent to the experience of living with contemporary digital technologies. Communications protocols and programming languages, also infra-structure technological devices, making the interoperability of particular platforms possible and creating the basis for contemporary ways of communicating and socialising. Digital infrastructure includes, therefore, not only the wires and cables that suppor…
Introduction 2.0
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores contours of the emerging subfield of digital anthropology. It outlines six core themes that they identified as characterising digital anthropology, extending their earlier work on cell phones and the internet The book provides a manifesto for a particular kind of social or cultural anthropology, arguing for a holistic fo…
Neglected Transportation Infrastructure
Verkhnemarkovo, a small Siberian town located on an oil field in Russia’s Irkutsk region, is plagued by bad roads and limited mobility. This article explores the relationship between corporate social responsibility and the wellbeing of individuals and communities, with a focus on transport and mobility infrastructure. Some oil companies, such as Irkutsk Oil Company, are tied to the sustainability standards of international financial institutions.…
Digital Anthropology
Digital Anthropology, 2nd Edition explores how human and digital can be explored in relation to one another within issues as diverse as social media use, virtual worlds, hacking, quantified self, blockchain, digital environmentalism and digital representation. The book challenges the prevailing moral universal of “the digital age” by exploring emergent anxieties about the global spread of new technological forms, the cultural qualities of digital…
Technology, Environment, and the Ends of Knowledge
Infrastructure
Infrastructures are the arteries of our contemporary world: roads, railways, airports, ports, pipelines, fibre optics cables, data, and logistics centres. Built above and below ground, they connect, channel, and, at times, halt the movement of humans, commodities, and resources that populate the earth. Infrastructures can also be immaterial: software, flows of data, and capital and the systems that organise them. A most basic definition can be gl…
L’anthropologie comme infra-imagination
Concept
In this short conversation, anthropologists Tone Walford (UCL) and Hannah Knox (University of Manchester) discuss how they came to study data in their research and how they have learned to approach it as an object of ethnographic attention
Alignment and Articulation Work in Computer Mediated Organization
The concept of ‘alignment’ has been commonly used to refer to the re-organizations of the world deemed necessary in order to accommodate the workings of complex technological systems. However, such re-organizations also, and inevitably, dis-organize the settings where such technologies are deployed. This, in turn, incites further orderings – and thus further dis-orderings. Complex (if often invisible) patterns of ‘articulation work’ typically eme…
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