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TechnoViews
by Sci-Tech Asia International Research Network
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
Episodes
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TechnoViews #19 ‘Soda Science. Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola’ | Susan Greenhalgh (Harvard University)
Susan GREENHALGH, interviewed by Gonçalo SANTOS and Jun ZHANG on 28/February/2025 ABOUT THIS EPISODE In this episode, anthropologist and science studies specialist Susan Greenhalgh talks about her most recent book, Soda Science. Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola, taking TechnoViews listeners…
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TechnoViews #18 'Moving Crops and the Scales of History’ | Francesca Bray, Barbara Hahn, John B. Lourdusamy, and Tiago Saraiva
John B. LOURDUSAMY and Tiago SARAIVA, interviewed by Gonçalo SANTOS and Jun ZHANG on 13/August/2024 ABOUT THIS EPISODE Dr. 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...
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TechnoViews #17 ‘The Labor of Reinvention’ | Lin ZHANG (U. of New Hampshire)
Lin ZHANG, interviewed by Joseph BOSCO on 13 December 2023 ABOUT THIS EPISODE In 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...
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TechnoViews #16. 'An Ecological History of Modern China' | Stevan Harrell (U. of Washington)
Stevan HARRELL, interviewed by Loretta Ieng-tak LOU on 9/December/2023 ABOUT THIS EPISODE This 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...
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TechnoViews #15. 'Prototype Nation' | Silvia M. Lindtner (U. of Michigan)
Silvia LINDTNER, interviewed by Joseph BOSCO on 25 October 2022 ABOUT THIS EPISODE In 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,...
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TechnoViews #14. ‘Chinese Village Life Today’ | Gonçalo Santos (University of Coimbra)
Gonçalo SANTOS, interviewed by Jun ZHANG on May 26, 2022 ABOUT THIS EPISODE This 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...
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TechnoViews #13. ‘Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China' | Andrew Kipnis (Chinese U. of Hong Kong)
Andrew KIPNIS, interviewed by Jun ZHANG and Gonçalo SANTOS on October 28, 2021 ABOUT THIS EPISODE This 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...
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TechnoViews #12 'Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China' | Lena Kaufmann (U. of Zurich)
Lena KAUFMANN, interviewed by Joseph BOSCO on 9 Sept 2021 ABOUT THIS EPISODE In 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...
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TechnoViews #11 Animal Disease and Global Health at China's Pandemic Epicenter | Lyle Fearnley (SUTD)
Lyle FEARNLEY, interviewed by Jun ZHANG on 11 August 2021. ABOUT THIS EPISODE In 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…
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TechnoViews #10 'Food Safety After Fukushima' | Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna (Southern Methodist University)
Nicolas STERNSDORFF-CISTERNA, interviewed by Jun ZHANG on 28 July 2021. ABOUT THIS EPISODE This 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...
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TechnoViews #9 'Can Science and Technology Save China?' | Susan Greenhalgh (Harvard University)
Susan GREENHALGH, interviewed by Joseph BOSCO on 19 February 2021. FEATURED AUTHOR Susan 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...
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TechnoViews #8 'Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy' | Li ZHANG (University of California—Davis)
Li ZHANG, interviewed by Joseph BOSCO on February 5, 2021. FEATURED AUTHOR Li ZHANG is a professor in the Dept. of Anthropology at the University of California—Davis, and the author of the new book Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy (2020, University of California…
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TechnoViews #7 'Driving Toward Modernity in China' | Jun ZHANG (City University of Hong Kong)
Jun Zhang (City University of Hong Kong), Interviewed by Cornell University Press in March 2020. FEATURED AUTHOR Jun Zhang is Assistant Professor of Asian and International Studies at City University of Hong Kong. This episode is about her new book Driving toward Modernity: Cars and the Lives of...
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TechnoViews #6 'Solar Energy in China' | Edwin A. SCHMITT (Oslo University)
Edwin A. Schmitt (Olso University), Interviewed by Joseph Bosco in April 2019. FEATURED AUTHOR Edwin A. Schmitt is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo in Norway. He has a PhD in Anthropology from The Chinese University of…
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TechnoViews #5 'Genocide/Feminicide, Memory, and Technologies of Violence' | Fazil Moradi (LOST)
Fazil Moradi (LOST), Interviewed by Gonçalo Santos in December 2018 at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. FEATURED AUTHOR Fazil Moradi is a postdoctoral researcher, member of the Law, Organization, Science and Technology (LOST) Research Network and an Associate at the...
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TechnoViews #4 'Doing Anthropological Research on GMOs' | Glenn Stone (Washington University)
Glenn Davis Stone (Washington University), Interviewed by Joseph Bosco in December 2018, St. Louis, Missouri. FEATURED AUTHOR Glenn Davis Stone is a Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Washington University in St Louis. Professor Stone’s research focuses on environmental...
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TechnoViews #3 'Environmental Crisis in China' | Stevan Harrell (University of Washington)
Stevan Harrell (University of Washington), Interviewed by Gonçalo Santos in June 2018, Whatcom County, WA. FEATURED AUTHOR Stevan Harrell is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Washington. Steve is one of the most well known anthropologists of China. He has been doing…
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TechnoViews #2 'The Crafting of the 10.000 Things. Shifting Frameworks of Knowledge and Technology in Imperial China' | Dagmar Schäfer (MPI for the History of Science)
Dagmar Schäfer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science), Interviewed by Gonçalo D. Santos on March 22, 2018, Hong Kong. FEATURED AUTHOR Dagmar Schäfer is the Director of Department III, Artifacts, Action, Knowledge at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She is...
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TechnoViews #1 'The Craft of Anthropology. Doing Fieldwork with Artisans in Thailand and Greece in Times of Change' | Michael Herzfeld (Harvard)
Michael HERZFELD, interviewed by Gonçalo SANTOS on March 6, 2018, Hong Kong. FEATURED AUTHOR Michael Herzfeld is Ernest E. Monrad Research Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. He is also the former and founding Director (2014-18) of the Thai...
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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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