China’s rapid economic transformation over the last 3 decades has been remarkable both in terms of its speed and scale. As the Economist magazine reported recently, ‘In China each person now produces four times as much as in the early…

Between February 4 and 15, 1981, a particularly well recorded earthquake widely felt in Mexico City. These events were rather large by local standard; magnitude estimates for the initial and a couple of later shocks are in the range of…

This paper suggests that a new form of racialization is being produced in the information age through developments and innovations in communication technologies. Increasingly, racial knowledge is being constructed from seemingly neutral and unrelated pieces of information, which are collected,…