[Sci-tech-public] [STS Events - Webinar] Tues, Nov 16, 2:15pm: Andrea Ballestero "A Future History of Water, or, How to Wonder with Techno-Legal Devices?"

[Gus Zahariadis]

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 | 2:30pm - 3:30pm EST
A Future History of Water, or, How to Wonder with Techno-Legal Devices?
Andrea Ballestero, Visiting Professor of Anthropology, University of Southern California

How do people commit to intervening in the future while acknowledging its unruliness?

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.

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.

READ MORE: ABSTRACT AND BIO<https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/andrea-ballestero-a-future-history-of-water-or-how-to-wonder-with-techno-legal-devices/>

WEBINAR PRE-REGISTRATION: https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__Krv2JkATCyDOAOuhKxpOA


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