Managing the Unknown

Managing the UnknownInformation is crucial when it comes to the management of resources. But what if knowledge is incomplete, or biased, or otherwise deficient? How did people define patterns of proper use in the absence of cognitive certainty? Discussing this challenge for a diverse set of resources from fish to rubber, these essays show that deficient knowledge is a far more pervasive challenge in resource history than conventional readings suggest. Furthermore,

religious and scientific

It provides ethnographic accounts that complicate the dominant narrative of Manchester’s renaissance

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It was also one the first fully industrialised areas to experience catastrophic economic decline in the inter-war years

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China Bound and Unbound recounts how one woman's hope of building a new China gradually turned to disappointment

and the renewal of urban conflict

she finally gets an opportunity to chase her dreams

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Mark Manolopoulos explores how "creation"-the what-is-can be seen as a gift

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In offering a phenomenological description of psychic pain