Please join us next Monday, March 2nd:
STS Colloquium
'Sustainable Development' from Tanzania to Chicago:
Tracking the Subaltern in STS Studies
Chris Walley, MIT Anthropology
4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095
Abstract:
This talk asks what insights might be garnered from bringing two very
different kinds of environmental projects into the same analytical
frame: one that seeks to conserve the seemingly pristine
environment of a marine protected area off the coast of East Africa
and the other an "open space reserve" in the United States intended
to remediate the heavily polluted industrial brownfields found in an
urban wetland region. This talk tracks discourses of "sustainable
development" in both places and considers the structural differences
and similarities experienced by subaltern groups in both. In doing
so, it considers the questions that emerge at the interstices of
disparate environmental and geographic literatures and how this
unusual juxtapositioning can be "good to think with" as scholars work
to make STS more fully "global" in orientation.
Bio:
Chris Walley is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT. Her
book Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine
Park was published by Princeton University Press in 2004. She is
currently working on a documentary and book about the social and
environmental impact of deindustrialization in the former steel-mill
neighborhoods of Southeast Chicago.
Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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