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 #344 - 09.23.2021 - Anthropause w/Yiyun Kang
EP #343 - 09.16.2021 - Young and Severely Affected by COVID
EP #342 - 09.15.2021 - Crisis: A Term for These Times w/Rosalind Williams
EP #341 - 09.14.2021 - COVID Memorials w/Guest Host Kristin Urquiza
EP #340 - 09.13.2021 - The Anthro-Shift: Climate, Risk, and COVID-19
EP #339 - 09.13.2021 - Doctors with Disabilities in the Fight against COVID
EP #338 - 09.09.2021 - Classroom Teachers in the Pandemic
EP #337 - 09.09.2021 - Disaster Memory in East Asia
EP #336 - 09.08.2021 - Humanitarian Aid in the COVID-19 Era w/Peter Redfield
EP #335 - 09.07.2021 - Special Guest Host Episode with Kristen Urquiza
EP #334 - 09.06.2021 - Teaching Medieval History in the COVID Era
EP #333 - 09.02.2021 - Disability Rights, Activism, and COVID w/Ashley Shew
EP #332 - 09.01.2021 - Maternal and Child Health in the Pandemic w/Cecila Tomari
EP #331 - 09.01.2021 - Breathing Communities in South Korea
EP #330 - 08.31.2021 - Social Justice and Public Health in Louisana
EP #329 - 08.26.2021 - Caring for the Dying: Coping with Death in the Age of COVID
EP #328 - 08.25.2021 - Global Health in the Covid Era w/Adia Benton
EP #327 - 08.24.2021 - Emergency Management Update w/emergency managers
EP #326 - 08.23.2021 - COVID, Vulnerability, and the Aftermath with Todd Meyers
EP #325 - 08.23.2021 - COVID Research & the National Assembly Futures Institute of Korea
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