EiJ Question 3: Environmental Health Vulnerability
3. What intersecting factors -- social, cultural, political, technological, ecological -- contribute to environmental health vulnerability and injustice in this setting?
EiJ Question 2: Environmental Threats
2. What environmental threats (from worst case scenarios, pollution and climate change) are there in this setting?
EiJ Question 1: Setting
1. What is the setting of this case?
EiJ Films
Collection of films and supplementary material for teaching Environmental Injustice.
AK COVID-Development Studies Intersections
Aalok KhandekarAnnotation of
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?
Taiwan RCA Toxic Tort
Hsin-Hsing (Dico) Chen, Paul Jobin, and Yi-Ping Lin have for almost two decades supported the first collective action toxic tort in Taiwanese history, Former RCA Employees’ Mutual Aid Association v
Guinea Pigs Go to Court: Epidemiology and Class Actions in Taiwan
Chapter 8 of Powerless Science?: Science and Politics in a Toxic World (edited by Soraya Boudia and Nathalie Jas, 2016) was co-authored by Paul Jobin and Yu-Hwei Tseng.
Abstract: In this paper, we describe how critical data designers have created projects that ‘push back’ against the eclipse of environmental problems by dominant orders: the pioneering pollution da