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 #363 - 10.22.2021 - More-Than-Human Perspectives on COVID-19
EP #362 - 10.21.2021 - Medical Students in the Pandemic
EP #361 - 10.19.2021 - Public Health and COVID-19 w/Greg Gonsales
EP #360 - 10.18.2021 - Photography in the Pandemic w/Virginia Hanusik
EP #359 - 10.18.2021 - The Origins of COVID-19 w/Frederic Keck
EP #358 - 10.14.2021 - Medical Scarcity and COVID-19
EP #357 - 10.13.2021 - Researchers‘ Roundtable
EP #356 - 10.13.2021 - Vaccination in South Korea
EP #355 - 10.11.2021 - Sugar, Diet, and COVID-19 w/Guest Host Adia Benton
EP #354 - 10.07.2021 - Tracking COVID w/Technology in South Korea and China
EP #353 - 10.06.2021 - Risk Communication and COVID-19, w/ Guest Host Esther Chernak
EP #122 - 9.8.2020 - Public Health History & COVID-19
EP #352 - 10.04.2021 - Mass Death as Everyday Life w/Mary Dudziak
EP #351 - 10.04.2021 - Meet India‘s First Transgender Woman Leading a COVID Clinic, Dr. Aqsa Shaik
EP #350 - 09.30.2021 - Disaster Research in COVID Times w/Dave Neal
EP #349 - 09.30.2021 - Environmental History in COVID Times
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EP #347 - 09.29.2021 - Legal Regimes Under Pandemic Conditions: The Case of Plastics
EP #346 - 09.28.2021 - Self-processing and Societal Learning from Loss in COVID-19, with Guest Host Kristin Urquiza
EP #345 - 09.23.2021 - Presidents and Pandemics
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