TechnoViews

Sep 04 2024 18 ep. 31 mins 15
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TechnoViews features interviews with humanities and social science scholars on a wide range of topics at the intersection between science, technology, and society in the 21st century. Our podcast episodes provide a more in-depth understanding of the major challenges of living in a world that is increasingly dominated by global articulations of technoscience. Available in all major podcast platforms, including Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts, among others. TechnoViews is produced by the Sci-Tech Asia International Research Network and is supported by the Research Cluster “Technoscience, Society, and Environment” of the Research Center for Anthropology and Health at the University of Coimbra.

Podcast Team: Joseph BOSCO, Loretta LOU, Gonçalo D. SANTOS, Nicolas STERNSDORFF-CISTERNA, and Jun ZHANG

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TechnoViews #18 'Moving Crops and the Scales of History’ | Francesca Bray, Barbara Hahn, John B. Lourdusamy, and Tiago Saraiva

Sep 04 2024 30 mins  
John B. LOURDUSAMY and Tiago SARAIVA, interviewed by Gonçalo SANTOS and Jun ZHANG on 13/August/2024 ABOUT THIS EPISODEDr. Lourdusamy and Dr. Saraiva present their recently published book, Moving Crops and the Scales of History, speaking on behalf of a larger collective of authors that includes also Francesca Bray and Barbara Hahn. The episode begins with a discussion of key concep

TechnoViews #17 ‘The Labor of Reinvention’ | Lin ZHANG (U. of New Hampshire)

Feb 08 2024 39 mins  
Lin ZHANG, interviewed by Joseph BOSCO on 13 December 2023ABOUT THIS EPISODEIn this episode, Dr. Zhang discusses the definition of the “entrepreneur” and why it is important. She also discusses why the idea that entrepreneurship would decrease inequality has become so popular in among PRC leaders. The author also explains the significance of her three cases, and elaborates on t

TechnoViews #16. 'An Ecological History of Modern China' | Stevan Harrell (U. of Washington)

Dec 24 2023 32 mins  
Stevan HARRELL, interviewed by Loretta Ieng-tak LOU on 9/December/2023ABOUT THIS EPISODEThis episode features a conversation with Stevan Harrell about his recent masterful overview of China's environmental processes from the twentieth century to the present. The author discusses how the ‘ecological history’ approach differs from more conventional approaches to environmental his

TechnoViews #15. 'Prototype Nation' | Silvia M. Lindtner (U. of Michigan)

Nov 03 2022 28 mins  
Silvia LINDTNER, interviewed by Joseph BOSCO on 25 October 2022ABOUT THIS EPISODEIn this episode, Dr. Lindtner explains what is the “maker” movement, and why she focused on this phenomenon. She discusses how she conducted ethnographic research in companies that can often be wary of outsiders, especially foreigners. She also discusses how making was appropriated by the Chinese C

TechnoViews #14. ‘Chinese Village Life Today’ | Gonçalo Santos (University of Coimbra)

Jun 01 2022 18 mins  
Gonçalo SANTOS, interviewed by Jun ZHANG on May 26, 2022ABOUT THIS EPISODEThis podcast episode discusses village life in China today after more than four decades of radical programs of urbanization and modernization. As China became a predominantly urban and industrial society with increasing levels of affluence, the government expanded its capacity to implement large-scale progra

TechnoViews #13. ‘Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China' | Andrew Kipnis (Chinese U. of Hong Kong)

Nov 08 2021 30 mins  
Andrew KIPNIS, interviewed by Jun ZHANG and Gonçalo SANTOS on October 28, 2021ABOUT THIS EPISODEThis podcast episode features a conversation with Andrew Kipnis on his recent work on China's changing funerary practices in the context of powerful forces of urbanization. It examines how spatial reorganization during Chinese urbanization problematized death, and how newly emerged form

TechnoViews #12 'Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China' | Lena Kaufmann (U. of Zurich)

Oct 14 2021 30 mins  
Lena KAUFMANN, interviewed by Joseph BOSCO on 9 Sept 2021ABOUT THIS EPISODEIn this podcast episode, Dr. Kaufmann discusses what she means by the term “sociotechnical,” and “paddy field predicament,” the fact that in the area she researched, paddy fields need to be continuously planted or they become damaged and less productive. We also discuss her argument that technology i

TechnoViews #11 Animal Disease and Global Health at China's Pandemic Epicenter | Lyle Fearnley (SUTD)

Sep 10 2021 30 mins  
Lyle FEARNLEY, interviewed by Jun ZHANG on 11 August 2021.ABOUT THIS EPISODEIn this podcast episode, we discuss how virus surveillance systems identified China as an "epicenter" or source of pandemics, and discusses how these scientific approaches drive a broader "geography of blame." Drawing on Fearnley's book on avian and pandemic influenza science in China, we explore why wet ma

TechnoViews #10 'Food Safety After Fukushima' | Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna (Southern Methodist University)

Aug 12 2021 29 mins  
Nicolas STERNSDORFF-CISTERNA, interviewed by Jun ZHANG on 28 July 2021.ABOUT THIS EPISODEThis podcast episode discusses the aftermath of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and food safety. The accident forced people to confront new risks in their lives and to question whether government policies would keep them safe. This led to the emergence of social moveme

TechnoViews #9 'Can Science and Technology Save China?' | Susan Greenhalgh (Harvard University)

Mar 29 2021 26 mins  
Susan GREENHALGH, interviewed by Joseph BOSCO on 19 February 2021.FEATURED AUTHORSusan Greenhalgh is the John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University, and the co-editor of the recently published volume, Can Science and Technology Save China? (Cornell University Press, 2020). Her two most recent boo