MATERIALITIES: How does this text/talk draw out the material features and infrastructures of place and space?
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SCALES: How are space and place scaled in this text/talk? How are bodies cast and conceptualized?
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ORGANIZATIONS: How does this text/talk describe the organization, meaning and valuation of space and place?
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FRAMEWORKS: What theoretical/political/ethical frameworks are drawn on in this text/talk?
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STORIES: What spatial stories does this text/talk animate and how are these stories cultivated?
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Imaging Risk: Lead Poisoning and Information Distribution in Southern California
As an anthropologist studying expertise and knowledge production, I am committed to understanding how scientists (and other experts) disseminate knowledge about risk and environmental harm across a public, and how a public, in turn, consciously begins to consider and mobilize against environmental risk and harm. In this project on lead poisoning in Southern California, I explore how lead exposure risk is made visible to the public either through the intervention of public health officials and environmental health scientists or through personal experiences of toxicity and toxic exposure.
