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Gulf Coast Overflights for Environmental and Disaster Monitoring

Various flights with SouthWings to document Gulf Coast infrastructure and pollution.

Setting: Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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Project: Environmental Injustice in Kaohsiung

EiJ Photo Essay: Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

Photo essay for Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.

Image: Soil Liquefaction Potential Maps, Yunlin County

The surface soil layer with loose soil and water-saturated soil not only has an amplifying effect on ground motions, but also may cause soil liquefaction.

Timeline: Formosa Plastics' Development & Investments

Image: Mk2010, via Wikicommons.

Image: Collage of Yunlin County

This is a collage of photos representing Yunlin County, including photos of the Xingang Fengtian Temple (Beigang), farmland (Dongshih), and

AK COVID-Development Studies Intersections

Aalok Khandekar

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Transnational STS COVID-19 Project Participants

In response to

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?