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 #144 - 10.8.2020 - COVID-19 in the Pyrocene with Stephen Pyne
EP #143 - 10.7.2020 - Writing Cultural History in a Pandemic
EP #142 - Comedy in the COVID-19 Era
EP #141 - 10.5.2020 - The Pandemic in the Anthropocene
EP #140 - 10.2.2020 - What would a just COVID-19 Recovery look like?
EP #139 - 10.1.2020 - Latinos and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the USA
EP #138 -9.30.2020 - Food Insecurity in Bangladesh during COVID-19
EP #137 - 9.29.2020 - The Pandemic and the Patient's Experience of Illness
EP - #136 - COVIDCalls 9.28.2020 - COVID-19, Diplomacy and Disaster with Ilan Kelman
EP #135 - 9.25.2020 - Racial Justice, Public Health, and COVID-19 in Philadelphia
EP #134 - 9.24.2020 - Marked by COVID and the Cry for COVID-19 Justice
EP #133 - 9.23.2020 - Teaching in COVID-19: Disaster Pedagogy in Real Time
EP #132 - 9.22.2020 -Medical Education in the Pandemic
EP #131 - 9.21.2020 - Counting the Dead
EP #130 - 9.18.2020 - The Pandemic, Public Health, and the Courts
EP #129 - 9.17.2020 - Compounding disasters: Fire, smoke and COVID-19
EP #128 - 9.16.2020 - Visualizing Disaster with Alex Wellerstein
EP #127- 9.15.2020 - Physicians and COVID-19: A View from Dallas
EP #126 - 9.14.2020 - Wildfire and COVID-19
EP #125 - 9.11.2020 - Investigating the Disaster 9.11 and COVID-19
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Poetry of Science
Behavioral Grooves Podcast
Hidden Brain
Something You Should Know
Proxy with Yowei Shaw