Event overview
Vegetable politics: plant/human cordiality, bio-sensing and environmental justice in the Anthropocene.
Drawing on an ongoing project in Puchuncaví, one of the most contaminated industrial sites in Chile, in this presentation I speculate about the capacity of vegetable life to manifest and politicize otherwise intractable environmental sufferings. As sentient and sensing bodies, plants render themselves available for critical bio-monitoring practices and political action in toxic environments. This cordial gesture reveals, in turn, the affective and caring nature of plant/human relations and expands our imagination on interspecies encounters in the Anthropocene.
Manuel Tironi is assistant professor at the Instituto de Sociología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His research interests within the field of science and technology studies are focused on geo and envirotech disasters, speculative methods and political experiments. He is currently investigating practices of care in situations of chemical contamination. His research has been published in Science, Technology & Human Values, Geoforum and Sociological Review, among others. He co-edited Disasters and Politics: Materials, Experiments, Preparedness (Wiley, 2014), winner of the 2014 Amsterdamska Award by the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology.
Sensing Practices
The Citizen Sense research group is hosting a year-long seminar series on “Sensing Practices.” The series attends to questions about how sensing and practice emerge, take hold, and form attachments across environmental, material, political and aesthetic concerns. Rather than take “the senses” as a fixed starting point, this seminar series instead considers how sensing-as-practice is differently articulated in relation to technologies of environmental monitoring, data gathered for evidentiary claims, the formation of citizens, and more-than-human entanglements. How might these expanded approaches to sensing practices recast engagements with experience, and reconfigure explorations of practice-based research?
www.citizensense.net/.../sensing-practices-seminar-series/
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 8 Jul 2015 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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