Search | Disaster STS Network

FAQ: Formosa Plastics Global Archive

Sunshine Project, Formosa Plastics, Louisiana

pece_annotation_1473102582

jaostrander

Annotation of

Nuclear Emergency Response: Atomic Priests or an International SWAT Team?

In response to

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.

Sonja D. Schmid is an assistant professor at Virginia Tech. Her area of expertise is in the history of technology, science and technology policy, and social studies of risk. Specifically, Schmid researches the history and the organization of nuclear industries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. With respect to emergency response, Schmid has studied how agencies and personel have responded to nuclear disasters.

A recent article Schmid has written: Schmid, Sonja D. "What If There's a next Time? Preparedness after Chernobyl and Fukushima - A European-American Response." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. N.p., 01 July 2016. Web. 05 Sept. 2016.

pece_annotation_1481596589

jaostrander

Annotation of

Chronic Disaster Syndrome: Displacement, Disaster Capitalism, and the Eviction of the Poor from New Orleans

In response to

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 looked further into governmental relief policies after disasters, mental health policies in regard to emergencies, and New Orleans current state.

pece_annotation_1473113428

jaostrander

Annotation of

Health and Emergencies: Syllabus

In response to

How was the study funded?

This study was funded by Grants-in-aid for the Cancer Control Policy from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan.

pece_annotation_1481650335

jaostrander

Annotation of

The Gendered Human of Humanitarianism: Medicalising and Politicising Sexual Violence

In response to

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.

Miriam Ticktin received her PhD in Anthropology at Stanford University and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France, and an MA in English Literature from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Ticktin is now an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of Zolberg Institute for Migration and Mobility.