Pödelwitz got future
JonnyGruenschPödelwitz is an activist initiative in the central german coal district, which is located in a village which was supposed to be evacuated for a planned expansion of a neighboring coal mine. After successfully resisting this expansion, the activists now promote social-ecological transformation in the village and the wider region. I will collaborate with them as part of my project in C-urge to study the role of justice in such transformations. Thereby we hope to arrive at an understanding of justice that is not opposed to urgent societal transformation in light of climate change, but a means of achieving this.
Living Data Research Group: Health Biosensing in Everyday Life
The Living Data Research Group is composed of several researchers at Lancaster University (UK) who are involved in such fields as who work a
Data Studies Program - UC Davis
The Data Studies Program at UC Davis' Institute for Social Sciences was launched with the help of Joe Dumit.
Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI)
EDGI brings together intellectuals and organizations to monitor, analyze, and engage with US environmental policy and science research infrastructure.
Sugar plantations, Chemical Plants, COVID-19
The chemical plants in Cancer Alley are built where there once were sugar plantations. Descendants of enslaved communities still live nearby.
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.