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Incidents of state violence and activism against that violence illustrate the continuing significance of race and the persistence of white supremacy in France, the United States, and worldwide. Based on past and current ethnographic research and interviews with ethnic minorities in the Parisian metropolitan region,…
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The U.S. dollar in Argentina was slowly but progressively popularized from the 1930s until the second decade of the twenty-first century. Over this period, information about the dollar, formerly of interest exclusively for financial agents or foreign trade experts, began holding political relevance for increasingly…
- Mariana LuzziAffiliationCONICET-UNSAM
- Ariel WilkisAffiliationEscuela IDAES (Universidad de San Martin)/CONICETPresentationTalk Title: "How the US Dollar Became a Popular Currency in Argentina"
- Co-sponsored with the Department of Anthropology
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The personal data people give in exchange for convenient tools like Gmail and Instagram provides the raw material for predictions about everything from their purchasing power to their character. These algorithmic predictions influence their life chances and generate specific kinds of capital and social expectation:…
- Marion FourcadeAffiliationUniversity of California at BerkeleyPresentationTalk Title: "The Ordinal Society"
- Kieran HealyAffiliationDuke University