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Limn Number Nine: "Little Development Devices / Humanitarian Goods"

edited by Stephen J. Collier, Jamie Cross, Peter Redfield and Alice Street

The next issue of Limn examines the recent profusion of micro-technologies in the fields of humanitarianism and development, some focused on fostering forms of social improvement, others claiming to alleviate suffering, many seeking to accomplish both. Although small-scale endeavors are far from novel, today’s micro-devices are animated by new intellectual energy, channels of finance, and moral ambition.

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Contributors to Limn 9 include:

Jacquie Best on micro-devices and development failure
Marc Boeckler on micro-insurance in the global South
Brenda Chalfin and Xhulio Binjaku on ‘dwelling based public toilets’ in Ghana
Jamie Cross on the photovoltaic cell
Vincent Duclos on mobile health in Burkina Faso
Robert Foster on customer care in Papua New Guinea
Christopher Kelty on participatory development
Meena Khandelwal and Kayley Lain on cook stoves in India
Austin Lord on small hydro-electric devices in Nepal
Amy Moran Thomas on the gluclometer
Jonathan Morduch on microcredit
Peter Redfield on band-aids and magic bullets
David Reubi on sin taxes
Anke Schwittay and Paul Braund on humanitarian design cultures
Tom Scott Smith on IKEA’s ‘Better Shelter’
Alice Street on point of care diagnostics
Tatiana Thieme on sanitation in urban Kenyat.

Don't miss our recent issues.

Number Eight: "Hacks, Leaks and Breaches" edited by E. Gabriella Coleman and Christopher M. Kelty
Number Seven: "Public Infrastructures/Infrastructural Publics" edited by Stephen J. Collier, James Christopher Mizes and Antina von Schnitzler

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Limn draws material from networks of experts in the social and human sciences and is intended to be timely, diverse in perspective, authoritative, well written and beautifully designed.

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