ETROD is an online format that started in 2020. Every month we invite an academic to discuss her current work (e.g. paper (drafts), book chapter or else) that broadly connects to our overarching theme. As this is a dialogue rather than a standard presentation format, we circulate papers in advance and encourage our audience to engage in a conversation after an input from the author. This way, ETROD aims at rendering concepts more precise and critically engages with theories and methods related to resources and de/resourcification processes and the conditions and consequences of current resource transitions.
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The upcoming session:
22.02.2024 | 16:00 – 18:00 ETROD: "Undergrounds of Disposal. Sociogeological Processes in Nuclear Waste Management" by Christiane Schürkmann
Abstract
Referring to the case of nuclear waste management the presentation asks how societies relate to their undergrounds in order to develop permanent repositories to store their produced toxic objects. In this way, undergrounds are addressed as ‘bedrocks of hope’ by scientists, politicians, and the public with regard to their potential of isolating radionuclides in the long run. Based on a perspective located at the interface between Environmental Sociology and Science and Technology Studies the presentation suggests to investigate sociogeological relations in the context of such long-term projects in their processuality.
The session is held online: https://uni-frankfurt.zoom-x.de/j/65020988539?pwd=Wlc2WGdSVXRQOW1PWEl2Q1YyV0d2dz09
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