Technical knowledge and ecological fixes

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Technical knowledge and ecological fixes

1. Reading Group: Technical expertise, technicians and fixes in socioecological futures.
Weeks 6-8. Tuesdays 11am-12 noon. If interested in joining, please email Jasper for readings and the link: jasper.montana@ouce.ox.ac.uk

This online reading group will explore a small set of articles from human geography, anthropology, and science and technology studies that consider how technical expertise, technicians and fixes are being imagined and enacted into the production of socioecological futures. Convened by George Cusworth, Matt McMullen and Jasper Montana.

Tuesday 17th November – Knowing who to trust in the production of food: scientist and farming technicians
Tuesday 24th November – Technical knowledge and ecological fixes
Tuesdays 1st December – Public participation in the techno-scientific upstream

Date: 24 November 2020, 11:00
Venue: ONLINE
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organising department: School of Geography and the Environment
Organiser: Technological Life research cluster
Organiser contact email address: jasper.montana@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?: Required
Booking email: jasper.montana@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
This talk features in the following public collections:
- Talks of Interest to the School of Geography and the Environment
- Geography and the Environment
Editors: Chris White, Donna Palfreman