Trust exposes and discloses the social. But the heterogeneity and even excessiveness of meaning in the concept—its overdetermination, its multifariousness and multiformity,

its downright fuzziness—suggests that “the social” revealed by trust itself varies. [...]

“Less Trust, More Truth” said the black nylon drawstring bag in the cardboard box. I had to have one. No other item of swag at this crypto-conference articulated as boldly

what some blockchain advocates imagine the technology to do. It was precisely claims that blockchain, and in particular, Bitcoin, could obviate the need for trust [...]

Using blockchain as a thread, IBM Food Trust tries to stitch the wounds in the global, decentralised food supply chain. The creation of trust through traceability should induce

the healing. A text about trust as a commodity. [...]

Drawing on participant observation of COVID-19 tests and blood donation, this article demonstrates how micro-interactions between medical personnel and laypeople can constitute

trust, grounding the heavily debated topic ,trust in medicine’ in everyday life. [...]

This piece explores how the indexical quality of Facebook livestreams and the particular claims they make to represent or manifest “reality” connect with long-standing

anxieties over accountability, transparency and trustworthiness in contexts of profound distrust and extreme socioeconomic inequality. [...]

How do globalised health regimes create and shape landscapes of medical regulation and patient safety? This essay asks about the many ways in which patients, consumers, health

advocates, and providers relate to pharmaceuticals, and to the regimes of access, trust, and regulation that govern them. [...]

This essay considers the role of demonstration as a technique of trust at a wild animal sanctuary in Jordan. I suggest that demonstration is an important technique of trust

because of its narrative flexibility in conveying trust to multiple audiences at once. [...]

Spurred by a question I have been commonly asked, yet one that I’ve long neglected as ethnographically revealing in itself, this essay takes queries about organic farming

and its certification as a window to probe the relations of truth and trust. [...]

This short essay addresses how trust mechanisms are articulated in one of Geneva’s local organic stores, considering the existence of trust relationships between human and

non-human elements that make up the system studied: i) farmers/shopkeepers ii) consumers iii) organic labels. [...]

Cal Biruk explores how technologies of audit and claims to transparency common to both agri-capitalist and global health infrastructures in Malawi paradoxically proliferate

suspicion. They call for rethinking (mis)trust as embedded in postcolonial spatiotemporal and infrastructural orders. [...]