Seminars

Digital identity systems convert individuals into machine-readable data.

This book, which is available open access here, draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmar’s genocide and ID schemes to critiqu

This paper examines the role of ambiguity attitudes in shaping trust decisions. Traditional trust games often ignore or conflate the role of risk and ambiguity, though trust decisions typically involve the latter.

Two sets of arguments dominate the mainstream discourse on privacy in India. One position pushes for equal and robust rights to privacy for the poor.

While biometric national identification systems have been examined in interesting ways in other postcolonial settings, notably on the African continent and in India, questions over state/citizenship, economy/economisation, and freedom/unfreedom take on a particular valence in Jamaica.

Making a Life: Young Men on Johannesburg’s Urban Margins explores the dynamic everyday life-making strategies of young men in Zandspruit, a sprawling informal settlement on the outskirts of Johannesburg.

Central bank cooperation during global financial crises has been anything but consistent. While some crises are arrested with extensive cooperation, others are left to spiral.

The digitalisation of global economies has fostered anxieties about the trustworthiness of so- called ‘Artificial Intelligence’ technologies and their implications for interpersonal and institutional forms of trust and mistrust.