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Please join us next <b>Monday, March 2nd</b>:<br><br>
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<font size=5 color="#0000FF">'Sustainable Development' from Tanzania to
Chicago:<br>
Tracking the Subaltern in STS Studies<br><br>
</font><font size=5>Chris Walley, MIT Anthropology<br><br>
</font><font size=4>4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095<br><br>
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Abstract:<br>
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. <br><br>
Bio:<br>
Chris Walley is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT. Her book
<i>Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine
Park</i> 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. <br><br>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
617-452-2390<br>
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