Transnational STS COVID-19 Project
This is the Transnational STS COVID-19 project page.
Mutual Aid/Best Practices vs Local Practices
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This image reminds me of how mutual aid and communities keep each other fed, and safe, and how local practices are actually best practices. My own research， although not immediatley related to the specific public health concern of COVID, will focus on Indigenous food soverignty, particularly the right and autonomy to ferment and distribute alcohol (紅糯米酒) within the Amis community, and their current fight with the local health department on declaring whether or not their alcohol is "safe" for public consumption and distribution.
Conflictual Collaboration: Citizen Science and the Governance of Radioactive Contamination after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
In the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, citizen scientists collectively tracked and monitored residual radioactivity in Japan, legitimizing alternative views to an official assessm
Radioactive Performances: Teaching about Radiation after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
Following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and its release of radioac- tive contamination, the Japanese state put into motion risk communica- tion strategies to explain the danger of radiation e
T-D-STS COVID-19 Project: Learning PECE 2
Digital collection supporting the second PECE tutorial session for the Transnational Disaster STS COVID-19 Project.
T-STS COVID-19 Project Research Updates
For regular updates from the Transnational STS COVID-19 Project working groups.
Wimmer and Schiller critique methodological nationalism from multiple angles, examining the history of US immigration to make their case.