Mains, Daniel. Under construction: technologies of development in urban Ethiopia. xii, 226 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2019. £22.99 (paper)
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Crawley, M. (2023). Mains, Daniel. Under construction: technologies of development in urban Ethiopia. xii, 226 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2019. £22.99 (paper). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 29(3), 701-702. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13970
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‘We Are Burning Ourselves Up': Ethiopian Runners and Energetic Subjectivities (2022)
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Crawley, M. (2022). ‘We Are Burning Ourselves Up': Ethiopian Runners and Energetic Subjectivities. Ethnos, https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2022.2120516This article describes how energy, and the ‘condition’ of the runner, achieved through the successful management of energy, is understood as trans-bodily and social by Ethiopian long-distance runners. The way energy flows between people and the envir... Read More about ‘We Are Burning Ourselves Up': Ethiopian Runners and Energetic Subjectivities.
Laboring bodies and the quantified self (2022)
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Crawley, M. (2022). Laboring bodies and the quantified self. New Genetics and Society, 41(1), 66-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/14636778.2022.2029694How has the laboring body become so central to regimes of quantification and measurement, and how has this played out in literary and cultural representations of the quantified self? Through tracing narratives of entanglement of data and selves that... Read More about Laboring bodies and the quantified self.
Tracking selves or tracking relationships? Means of measuring time amongst Ethiopian runners (2021)
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Crawley, M. (2021). Tracking selves or tracking relationships? Means of measuring time amongst Ethiopian runners. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 27(3), 653-671. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13556GPS watches and digital self-tracking devices (DSTDs) have been characterized as ‘self-tracking’ devices, assuming a dyadic relationship between individuals and technologies. Amongst Ethiopian professional runners, such devices have become increasing... Read More about Tracking selves or tracking relationships? Means of measuring time amongst Ethiopian runners.
"Our Electric Monitors" Theorising the Contemporary, Fieldsites. (2017)
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Crawley, M., Dann, S., & Anusas, M. (2017). "Our Electric Monitors" Theorising the Contemporary, Fieldsites. Cultural Anthropology,