[Sci-tech-public] March 2nd STS Colloquium: Chris Walley, speaker

[Debbie Meinbresse]

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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