Christof Lammer (University of Klagenfurt) spoke with Suvi Rautio (podcast host, University of Helsinki) about his recent open access book, Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China (2024). You can […]
In a recently published paper in Big Data & Society, Erik Aarden analyses how quality of materials is managed and how materials are made visible and accessible in the European […]
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The students of the course „Die Zukunft der Künstlichen Intelligenz: Visionen in Science Fiction, Politik und Gesellschaft“ (“The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Visions in Science Fiction, Politics and Society”) cordially […]
The new FWF-funded project “Banking on zoos for conservation?” addresses the question how a collection of biological materials from zoo animals might contribute to the conservation of endangered species. The […]
For the project Banking on zoos for conservation? Towards a multispecies perspective on conservation research in the EAZA Biobank, funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, I am looking for […]
On January 1, 2024, three smaller institutes merged to form the new Department of Society, Knowledge, and Politics. In this report, we reflect on the personal and academic highlights of […]
Can Science and Technology Save a (Dying) State? Techno-Optimism in the Last Days of Socialist Yugoslavia During the 1980s, as the economic, social, and political crisis in socialist Yugoslavia was intensifying, […]
How to know a national park? Monitoring practices and the enactment of biodiversity in Neusiedler See – Seewinkel National Park, Austria To confront the ongoing global ‘biodiversity crisis’ various international […]
Christof Lammer’s fine-grained ethnography describes the complexity of political processes in an eco-village in Sichuan. The usual pigeonholing of the Chinese state does not work here. An exciting read for […]
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