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AK COVID-Development Studies Intersections

Aalok Khandekar

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Transnational STS COVID-19 Project Participants

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Where are you situated as COVID-19 plays out? What backstories shape your engagement with COVID-19? How can you be contacted? What questions and settings are you especially interested in following?

I am currently in the process of transitioning my M.A. level course on Science, Technology, and Development with 11 students to virtual instruction. One of my interests in engaging with COVID-19 is to examine how it (should) informs development ideologies and practices. How should students of development studies retool -- conceptually, methodologically, practically -- in wake of the pandemic?

Kim Fortun

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Transnational STS COVID-19 Project Participants

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Where are you situated as COVID-19 plays out? What backstories shape your engagement with COVID-19? How can you be contacted? What questions and settings are you especially interested in following?

I'm in Irvine, California, affiliated with the University of California Irvine. I’ve spent my career following industrial environmental disasters, fast (Bhopal, Fukushima) and slow (air pollution). Read more here. I can be contacted at kfortun@uci.edu.

I'm especially interested in these questions:

How is COVID-19 coordinational capacity in different settings described, evaluated and explained?

How is COVID-19 impacting and intersecting with air pollution?