...This chapter examines the incessant or non-stop night work in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the mid- to late-1800s. It explains that the spectacle of late nineteenth-century Pittsburgh was created by the emergence of large-scale industries, operating incessantly, in the decades after the Civil...

... in science. First, it is suggested that the phenomena under investigation in science are not organized into discrete levels. Relationships in composition, scale, metaphysical determination, and causal dependence have variously been linked to levels. But idealized representations in the service of diverse...

... by history and social inequality. Analysis of a single maternal death reveals how vulnerability and resilience manifest at scales from molecules to cells, organs to bodies, neighborhoods to nations. The chapter introduces readers to aspects of ordinary life in a large Malawian city and its surrounds...

...Chapter 5 considers the dire consequences that Tribal Nations face when U.S. agents subsume the juris-dictions of CWS, and the norms, knowledge, and relations that underwrite them, to the evidentiary evaluations and the logics of scale that federal actors rely on to measure whether a petitioning...

... depopulation Egypt Santner Eric biopolitics French Revolution Bartels Emily blackness Chakravarty Urvashi identity Ndayie Noemie Peacham Henry race Royster Francesca Thompson Ayanna Arendt Hannah care political theology Agamben Giorgio emotions Guevara Perry Mbembe Achille succession scale...

... sections discuss the book’s main analytical tools – the material and pragmatic aspects of scaling devices, the distinction between project and process, and the way to combine these in an historical anthropology of region formation. Finally, I exemplify the kind of analysis that segmentation facilitates...

... standardized names in a national gazetteer. A key obstacle to a comprehensive national gazetteer is the sheer volume of information involved. Other obstacles are the slow pace of systematic large-scale mapping and the time and cost involved in not only compiling the initial listing but also keeping it up...

... of the Habsburg Empire after its demise. More broadly, the legacy of the imperial-royal field sciences includes the ambitious projects of scientific internationalism that Habsburg scientists spearheaded in the Empire’s waning decades. Finally, the conclusion brings the analytical framework of “scaling” to bear...

...This chapter discusses the role of the theories of change, leverage, and scale in helping donors improve philanthropic effectiveness. It explains that there are strong connections linking these theories to one another and all three pieces actually fit together into what is known as a logic model...

... the good news/bad news format. The first short-run threat to the sustainability of Indian economic growth—even at the 6 percent level—is the fiscal situation. Dereservation of small-scale industry (SSI) would surely enhance the functioning of not only the labor market but also the entrepreneurial market...

... chunks, such as established neighborhoods. Cities often present wrenching instances in which different lumps of value are pitted against each other. Urban areas are also the sites of many new forms of slicing—of jobs, products, homes, and experiences. Private and public decisions at multiple scales...

... Purloined Letter strategic error soil water Fraser R Norman J engineers science scale Bellman R guns Industrial Revolution Funtowicz S Ravetz J medicine post normal Carter Jimmy Senneff S cost GMO meaning mitochondrion statin drugs disease gene glysophate Ahl V Allen T Margalef R...

... memory prediction semantics whirlpool biological hierarchies genome physics turbulence causality hierarchy horse rate independence scale system social thermodynamics Bohr N Pattee H Young T observation purpose slit experiment Rosen R photosynthesis signal Juarrero A organization...

...Signals are filtered to give message. Filters can run into the future to give anticipation. The filter defines the scale of a holon. The distinction between signs and signals is explained in the origins of writing. Internal genons and external environs are conceptual devices for addressing signals...

...This chapter explores the rise of participatory development in the 20th century, and especially the "tool kits" that are at the heart of this practice. It examines the conflict between local, radical, highly context-specific forms of participatory liberation, and the attempt to scale up...

... in a paradoxical position of unprecedented scalar access but unable to change to become compatible with the new scales that confront it, this chapter suggests that a more robust understanding of scale across disciplines is necessary to avoid “scalar collapse,” or the negation of scalar difference by speculative...

...While San José scale raised the question of foreign origins of bio-invasions, chestnut blight raised the necessity of excluding plant immigrants in their entirety. San José scale and other pathogens defined the native-invasive divide both amongst immigrants and their plant and insect immigrant...

... the past half century or so, policymakers instituted regulations intended to respond to a regime of infrastructure building that had rapidly altered ecologies. Looking at the rise of scale alongside environmental regulation from 1970-present, Oil Beach denaturalizes the infrastructural and economic...

... at an increased scale, but the subsequent imperative of growth then drove them out of the LA harbor and into smaller, more specialized ports, while the LA port complex embraced scaled-up containerized goods movement. Energy demands increased as trade volumes increased, even if “efficiencies” were created in labor...

..., there is only one thing left to do: to abandon the study of those processes that are equifinal and focus instead on the those that operate over temporal and spatial scales that are similar to that of archaeological data, and where the complexity is matched by the data’s dimensionality. archaeological data...