Today I welcome STS researcher and film maker Sulfikar Amir back to COVIDCalls!
Sulfikar Amir is an associate professor of science, technology, and society (STS) and a faculty member in Sociology Program at the School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has conducted research on technological nationalism, development and globalization, nuclear politics, risk and disaster, design studies, cities and infrastructures, and resilience. He is the author of The Technological State in Indonesia: the Co-constitution of High Technology and Authoritarian Politics (Routledge, 2012), and the editor of The Sociotechnical Constitution of Resilience: A New Perspective on Governing Risk and Disaster (Palgrave, 2018). Aside from being a scholar, Amir is a documentary filmmaker. His latest film is Healing Fukushima, which chronicles the role and experiences of medical experts in Fukushima in dealing with radiation hazard in the aftermath of the nuclear disaster.
EP #184 - 12.09.2020 - Science Journalism in the Pandemic with Laura Helmuth
EP #183 - 12.08.2020 - Scandinavia in the Pandemic
EP #182 - 12.07.2020 - Weddings in the Time of COVID-192.
EP #181 - 12.04.2020 - Metropoli and COVID-19
EP #180 - 12.03.2020 - The Monument Lab and COVID-19
EP #179 - 12.02.2020 - COVID-19 in Rural America
EP #178 - 12.01.2020 - The COVID-19 Organizational Crisis in France
EP #177 - 11.30.2020 - Denial, Democracy and Witnessing in the Age of COVID-19
EP #176 - 11.25.2020 - Memorial Episode #2
EP# 175 - 11.24.2020 - COVID-19 and the Technology of Response in Asia
EP #174 - 11.20.2020 - Practices of Memory for COVID-19
EP #173 - 11.19.2020 - Poverty and the Long Term Pandemic Impact
EP #172 - 11.18.2020 - Friendship and Loss in the Age of COVID-19
EP #171 - 11.17.2020 - The COVID-19 Oral History, Memory, and Narrative Archive
EP #170 - 11.16.2020 - The Digital Divide and the Pandemic
EP #169 - 11.13.2020 - The Viral Art Project
EP #168 - 11.12.2020 - Faces of COVID
EP #167 - 11.11.2020 - Stigma and COVID-19
EP #166 - 11.10.2020 - The Social Sciences in the Pandemic with Alondra Nelson
EP #165 - 11.09.2020 - Music Performance in the Pandemic
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