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.
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EP #222 - 02.17.2021 - The Opioid Addiction Disaster & the Pandemic
EP #221 - 02.16.2021 - The Lockdown Diaries
EP#220 - 02.15.2021 - Inside the Virus Research Lab with Justin Meyer
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EP #215 - 02.04.2021 - Biomedicine in the Archive with Joanna Radin & Robin Wolfe Scheffler
EP #214 - 02.03.2021 - Research Libraries& COVID-19 with Lisa Browar & Patrick Spero
EP #213 - 02.02.2021 - COVID-19 Vaccines, Law, and Society
EP #212 - 01.29.2021 - Congressional Calls: Brendan Boyle (PA-2) + Media and the Pandemic
EP #211 - 01.28.2021 - COVID-19 in the U.K. Public Health Update with Esther Chernak
EP #210 - 01.27.2021 - International Holocaust Remembrance Day
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EP #207 - 01.21.2021 - Trump, Biden, and the Path Ahead with Virginia Heffernan
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