Multifarious Land, Contesting Claims
Benita Menezes
Photo by Arjun MJ on Unsplash This essay maps two movements of a parcel of land at distinct temporal moments in India’s development history. The first was [...]
Multifarious Land, Contesting Claims
Data Collection of Kinship
Sojung Kim
In April 2018, the whole country was celebrating the historic meeting of the summit of the two Koreas. I remember the anxious atmosphere in the house of Youngdo,1 a [...]
Data, Distance, and the Making of Forest Carbon
Perry Maddox
Through the past decade, the monetization and trading of carbon emissions has been proposed as one pathway to address global climate change. To facilitate such trading, new strands of [...]
Taxing Data
Tushar Mehta
Website of the GST Council home page India adopted a new tax administration on July 1, 2017, which they named the Goods and Services Tax (GST). This [...]
Sieving Data
Bürge Abiral
One November night in 2016, Fatih Altaylı, a famous news anchor in Turkey, hosted three men on his live television program to discuss the country’s agricultural future. One was [...]
Unemployment Uncertainties: Work, Status, and Measurement Imprecision
Marios Falaris
“Look at us, we are unemployed,” Aijaz[i] told me, as we walk through his village in Indian-occupied Kashmir in April, passing a group of young men sitting on a [...]
Inheriting Data in Long-Term Ecological Studies
Sumin Myung
Wolhasan Forest in South Korea primarily consists of conifer plantations (Larix kaemperi and Pinus koraiensis) and oak-dominated natural forests (Querqus mongolica, Quercus serrata, Quercus variabilis, etc.). It arguably represents [...]
Collecting Jeju 4·3 (Sasam) Records from the US Military Archive
by Youjoung (Yuna) Kim
The National Archives at College Park, Maryland, also known as NARA II, houses a rich repository of materials that encompass US military reports pertaining to World War II prisoners [...]
Power ≠ Knowledge: Governmentality in North Indian Pilgrimage Ledgers
by Kunal Joshi
Figure 1: A scribe attempting to locate an entry in the bahī. Photo by author. Much postcolonial scholarship over the last several decades has focused on the [...]
Barcodes as Little Tools of Medical Knowledge
by Zeynel Gül
Every weekday morning at approximately 8 a.m., a queue of hospital visitors forms in front of the registration desk at the Occupational Diseases Unit of Lokman Hekim Hospital,<sup>1</sup> located [...]
