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 #63 - Jason Ludwig and Elena Sobrino - Disaster Researcher's Roundtable
EP #62 - Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University - Collections & Engagement in Pandemic
EP #61 - 6/8/2020 - Globalization and Human History During the Pandemic
#60 COVIDCalls 6.5.2020 - COVID-19 and the Tech Economy
#48 COVIDCalls 5.20.2020 - Climate Change & COVID-19
#50 COVIDCalls 5.22.2020 - Lungs, Breathing, & COVID-19
#59 COVIDCalls 6.4.2020 - Emergency Management & Disaster Governance
#47 COVIDCalls 5.19.2020 - Maintaining Dignity for the Dead During COVID-19
#58 COVIDCalls 6.3.2020 - The Pandemic & Wildfire
#57 COVIDCalls 6.2.2020 - Academy of Natural Sciences Episode I: Biodiversity in the Pandemic
#56 COVIDCalls 6.1.2020 - Mutual Aid in Compound Disasters
#51 COVIDCalls 5.25.2020 - State Violence, Discrimination, and Humanitarian Aid in the Pandemic
#54 COVIDCalls 5.28.2020 - Public Health Update + Disaster Research w/ Tricia Wachtendorf
#53 COVIDCalls 5.27.2020 - Graduating in a Pandemic Year
#52 COVIDCalls 5.26.2020 - High School Students in the Pandemic: Philadelphia
#49 COVIDCalls 5.21.2020 - COVID-19 in Singapore w/ Sulfikar Amir
#55 COVIDCalls 5.29.2020 - Two Pandemics: Racism & COVID-19 + Chile Update
#46 COVIDCalls 5.18.2020 - Information Infrastructures in Disaster
#45 COVIDCalls 5.15.2020 - Race & Face Masking in COVID-19
#44 COVIDCalls 5.14.2020 - COVID-29 in Jefferson County, Texas
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