Reading About STS and Cultural Critique
PECE essay to curate readings about STS and cultural critique.
Working on the T-D-STS COVID-19 Project
Instructions for getting started and working on the T-D-STS COVID-19 project.
Trouillot The Anthropology of the State in the Age of Globalization
Reading to contribute to critical thinking about transnationalism and COVID-19.
Mitchell The Limits of the State
Reading to contribute to critical thinking about transnationalism and COVID-19.
Transnational Disaster STS COVID-19 Project Design Group
This text artifact describes the Transnational STS COVID-19 Project Design Group.
Duygu Kasdogan
Duygu KasdoganI live in İzmir, Turkey, and am assistant professor in the Division of Urbanization and Environmental Problems at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at İzmir Katip Çelebi University. I am also part of an STS Research Network in Turkey – IstanbuLab. I can be reached at duygukasdogan@gmail.com
I have been involved in the Transnational STS Working Group. I am interested in fostering transnational organizational capacities in response to disasters.
I am especially interested in the following questions:
- How is COVID-19 coordinational capacity in different settings described, evaluated and explained?
- How are governments - in different settings, at different scales - sharing COVID-19 information?
- How is COVID-19 knowledge and expertise moving across national borders?
- How is the aftermath of COVID-19 crisis being imagined in different settings? How is this shaping beliefs, practices, and policies?
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Kristine.Gerges''Nature is eventually going to take its course,'' said David Turner of the United States Forest Service. ''It is a cataclysmic event for humans. But this is a dry habitat. Fire has been sweeping through this land for centuries.'' The flames are part of a cleansing process with real benefits, a lesson the Indians learned long ago to their hunting advantage but forest officials came late to. Now, in part due to budget restrictions, they do not rush in to fight every blaze everywhere. Some isolated fires are left to burn themselves out, naturally.
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Kristine.GergesThe vulnerabilties impact the community in a long term influence, especially fire. Fire hazards need more attention. the government should update their Police and Fire policies around the expansion of the fire events.
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Kristine.GergesThe nation’s busiest subway system sustained the worst damage in its 108 years of operation on October 29, 2012, as a result of Hurricane Sandy. Millions of people were left without service for at least one week after the storm, as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority rapidly worked to repair extensive flood damage (Photo credit: William Vantuono, Railway Age Magazine, 2012).
A collection of commissioned responses from individual scholars and exemplary institutional responses from universities and scholarly societies, published by the Network of Concerned Academics