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COVID-19 and Higher Education

A collection of commissioned responses from individual scholars and exemplary institutional responses from universities and scholarly societies, published by the Network of Concerned Academics

Reading About STS and Cultural Critique

PECE essay to curate readings about STS and cultural critique.

Working on the T-D-STS COVID-19 Project

Instructions for getting started and working on the T-D-STS COVID-19 project.

Trouillot The Anthropology of the State in the Age of Globalization

Reading to contribute to critical thinking about transnationalism and COVID-19.

Mitchell The Limits of the State

Reading to contribute to critical thinking about transnationalism and COVID-19.

Transnational Disaster STS COVID-19 Project Design Group

This text artifact describes the Transnational STS COVID-19 Project Design Group.

Duygu Kasdogan

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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 live in İzmir, Turkey, and am assistant professor in the Division of Urbanization and Environmental Problems at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at İzmir Katip Çelebi University. I am also part of an STS Research Network in Turkey – IstanbuLab. I can be reached at duygukasdogan@gmail.com

I have been involved in the Transnational STS Working Group. I am interested in fostering transnational organizational capacities in response to disasters.

I am especially interested in the following questions:

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maryclare.crochiere

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The Narrative Representation of illness

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Who are the authors, where do they work, and what are their areas of expertise? How is the author professionally situated in respect to emergency response? Note any other publications/research foci that are of relevance to the DSTS Network.

Laura Garro is a professor of anthropology at UCLA, so this shows her extensive background in athropology, and indicates that she writes this article with that sort of background, rather than a medical one.

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maryclare.crochiere

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The Gendered Human of Humanitarianism: Medicalising and Politicising Sexual Violence

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What three points, details or references from the text did you follow up on to advance your understanding of the complexities of emergency response?

I followed up by looking at rape rates across the world, how rape is regarded in different countries, and when humanitarian aid started.

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maryclare.crochiere

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5 Years After Haiti's Earthquake, Where Did The $13.5 Billion Go?

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How does the article address public health inequities or emergency response?

The article dicusses how the UN has caused major health issues but is not being held accountable by the court's decision, so that is a clear injustice for Haiti. Additionally, the only money that goes directly to Haitians to spend in the recovery has been spent on helping increase children's immunizations rates and increase HIV medical treatment, so they have shown some ability to help themselves when given the resources.