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Making a case for disaster science and technology studies

Authored by Kim Fortun and Scott Frickel, this blog post argues that a disaster STS would be analytically productive and concludes by offering several frameworks for future research.

PUNJAB: Rural-Urban Frontier

The contemporary - post-colonial[1], post-partition[2], post-trifurcation[3], post-liberalisation,[4] post-milita

Punjab's History with Maps

Punjab's boundaries and demographics have undergone deep transformations over colonial and post-colonial period in India. This twitter thread project is a very useful archive to track them.

Enforced Disappearences

"The Crimes Against Humanity Data Project is a portrait of widespread and systematic enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions, based on data collected through primary source interviews.

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COUNTER-MAPPING

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Frontier Urbanism

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Historian Giorgio Miescher defines frontier as a “border zone, the precise location and dimensions of which are in constant flux” (Namibia’s Red Line, 2012, p. 8)

Exhibit: SAVARNA SPEECH ACTS

The exhibition hopes to evoke an affective experience of the in/visible violence perpetrated by upper-castes by exploring their spaces of comfort and privacy as breeding grounds of confession