Trust as affective infrastructure

Abstract What is trust to a mining company? This article interrogates the effects of conceptualising as essential infrastructure for large-scale extractive operations. Although sentiments like are typically imagined fall outside firm's purview, companies actively blur distinctions between economic-material and social-emotional realms when they draw on intimate social forms kin networks communal authority mould into an expendable factor mineral production. But rather than transforming discrete, predictable input, firms have unexpectedly manufactured its opposite: desconfianza , or distrust. My study shows how residents affected by navigate this distrust attempting construct clear boundaries themselves mine. In process, reveal unruly underlying operations capitalism.