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Speculative algorithms are the new invisible cage for workers

By Hatim Rahman, author of Inside the Invisible Cage: How Algorithms Control WorkersIt was barely a decade ago that many of us became enamored by the “gig” economy. Booking a room, ride, or restaurant took seconds and could be done at virtually any time or place.A major factor enabling the g
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On publishing Open-Access, with author Adrienne Strong

What is it like to publish a book open-access with our Luminos program? Adrienne Strong, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida and author of Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania, discusses her award-winning book and her experience publis
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Pandemic Genres: Imagining Politics in a Time of AIDS

by Neville Wallace Hoad (Author)
Feb 2025
Open Access
Open Access
Open Access

Higher Powers: Alcohol and After in Uganda’s Capital City

by China Scherz (Author), George Mpanga (Author), and 1 more
Feb 2024
Open Access

Sounding the Indian Ocean: Musical Circulations in the Afro-Asiatic Seascape

by Jim Sykes (Author), Julia Suzanne Byl (Author)
Aug 2023
Open Access
Open Access