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An Ethnography of Vulnerability: A New Materialist Approach to the Apparatus of Measurement, the Algorithm.

During an ethnographic study of two Chilean schools over a period of three years, we observed the discursive assemblage of "what is vulnerable" emerging from an algorithm used to allocate public resources. In this article, we unravel the ways in which the algorithm intra‐acts with other elements in...

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Published in:Anthropology & Education Quarterly Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 82 - 106
Main Authors: Riberi, Valentina, González, Erika, Rojas Lasch, Carolina
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2021
Subjects:
Ethnic studies
Ethnology
Resource allocation
Psychological vulnerability
Algorithms
Ethical problems
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