Marco Trigoso Aching

Grad Fellow

MT researches techno infrastructures in the Global South. His interests focus on infrastructures as socio-technical objects that impact and are impacted by the communities that surround them. With backgrounds in Linguistics and Sociology, he employs ethnography and discourse analysis as critical methods for understanding how technical objects intertwine with human lives. A particular emphasis is given to the politics of development in the Global South and how these politics participate in people’s lives.

Keywords: infrastructure, sociotechnical, ethnography, Global South, STS

Recent work-in-progress:

  • Digital neoliberalism vs national welfare: an ethnography of beneficiaries of an educational development program in Peru
  • An autoethnography of Risk: What does it mean to study a high-risk destination when it’s your country?