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This thesis examines the materiality and practice of West African indigenous/'traditional' medicine through an archaeological ethnographic study engaging with contemporary healing specialists in a migrant community of Accra, Ghana. It makes an original contribution to knowledge …

Due to growing global concern regarding climate change and CO2 emissions, the use of soil as a potential carbon (C) sink has become increasingly recognised as a potential mitigation measure. Global agricultural soil has the estimated capacity for sequestering C at around 20 to 3…

As China has celebrated its economic boom over the past decades, scientific research within the R&D sector of industry has become an active arena for Science and Technology Studies (STS) in understanding how science contributes to social change in China. Two themes are central i…