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<div class=""><b class=""><u class="">Tuesday, November 16, 2021 | 2:30pm - 3:30pm EST</u></b></div>
<div class=""><b class="">A Future History of Water, or, How to Wonder with Techno-Legal Devices?</b></div>
<div class=""><b class="">Andrea Ballestero,</b> Visiting Professor of Anthropology, University of Southern California</div>
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<div class="">How do people commit to intervening in the future while acknowledging its unruliness? </div>
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<div class="">I propose the figure of the techno-legal device as a lively space where we can learn how people constantly negotiate the form of the worlds they want to bring about. </div>
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<div class="">I will focus on one device: a list of water types produced by Costa Rican congressional representatives during the discussion of a constitutional reform to recognize water as a public good and a human right. </div>
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<div class=""><b class=""><font color="#b51a00" class="">READ MORE: </font></b><a href="https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/andrea-ballestero-a-future-history-of-water-or-how-to-wonder-with-techno-legal-devices/" class=""><b class="">ABSTRACT AND BIO</b></a></div>
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<div class=""><font color="#b51a00" class=""><b class="">WEBINAR PRE-REGISTRATION:</b></font> <a href="https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__Krv2JkATCyDOAOuhKxpOA" class=""><b class="">https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__Krv2JkATCyDOAOuhKxpOA</b></a></div>
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