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 #83 - Racial Justice & Disaster Research: The Bill Anderson Fund Session II - Nancy Contreras & Antoine Richards
EP #82 - Natural Hazards Workshop - Scott Miles
EP #81 - The Hazards Workshop - Esher Chernak and Chelsea LeNoble
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EP #79 - Fiction in the Pandemic - Daniel Jose Older and Malka Older
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