research+design+grid_pedlt3

-How/when/where are future generations made (or not made) into implicated actors and/or ethical/political/legal subjects? || -Interviews with actors in these debates -Attending relevant meetings and hearings -Interviews with scientists, engineers, journalists, and policymakers working on the issue -Proposals to institutionalize intergenerational concerns -Documents from government agencies, activist groups, national labs, court cases, etc. || -I’m actually not quite sure, I’ve been thinking of it as something of a conundrum. Some themes to explore, however, are: -Anthropology / STS & Temporality -Anthro / STS on inheritance, legacy, and “prediction” || - How do existing deliberative processes deal with thorny issues that involve multiple and incommensurable timescales? -How is “risk” constructed, faced, and contested by the various actors involved in these debates? || -Interviews with “stakeholders”
 * ** Aims ** || ** Questions ** || ** Data Collection ** || ** Emerging Arguments ** || ** Literatures ** ||
 * Find new ways to think about the role of intergenerational ethics in “environmental” issues and beyond || - How are intergenerational relations deployed within these controversies, and implied by existing policies, practices, and knowledges?
 * 1) 1. Politics of representation
 * 2) 2. “Ethical distance” (How far—or for how long—should we/do we care?)
 * 3) 3. Absent/virtual subject formation
 * 4) 4. Something like crafting legacies &/or contemplating social/cultural finitude || -Anthropology / STS of ethics
 * Challenge the ability of existing institutions to deal with the legacy of nuclear technologies || -What is the relationship between stakeholder processes, public participation, and broader relations (and histories) of power?

Attending relevant meetings and hearings -Interviews with scientists, engineers, journalists, and policymakers working on the issue -Documents from government agencies, activist groups, national labs, court cases, etc. || -Stakeholder processes can be problematic for several reasons, including because the neutrality (in stakeholder selection), equality (among stakeholders), and (sometimes) the desire to create consensus among stakeholders - Negotiating these different timescales is very difficult, and involves intractable the “double binds” -Holistic conceptions of risk are better than “scientific” probabilistic risk assessments, although they may not be mutually exclusive -Command & control styles of governance, as well as some forms of privatization (sub/contracting) are problematic: Need to listen to whistleblowers, critics, workers, dissident scientists and engineers, and prepare for surprise. -Despite the very real issues with expertise and power, building up relevant expertise extremely important to deal with contaminated areas || -STS: Public participation / stakeholders -Nuclear history / ethnography /social science -Disaster studies || -What problems exist with science funding, expertise, regulatory agencies, etc.? In other words, what are the governance issues at stake here? || -Interviews with “stakeholders”
 * Explore the sociotechnical challenges that large-scale radiological (and other) contamination presents || -How is the effectiveness of particular technologies / designs estimated for immense timescales in complex (chemically, geologically, hydrologically, culturally, etc.) settings?

Attending relevant meetings and hearings -Interviews with scientists, engineers, journalists, and policymakers working on the issue -Documents from government agencies, activist groups, national labs, court cases, etc. || -Making very long term predictions form short term experiments/observations/data is not straightforward

-Challenges presented by Hanford, etc., are complex, and create the need for novel collaborations, yet processes have often been hampered by secrecy, and framed in problematic ways by policymakers

-The technoscientific challenges cannot be separated from political economy of science, region, nuclear complex, etc. || -Medical anthropology -STS / Anth. on environmental / ecological issues / risk -Anthropology / STS / History of environmental cleanup || -How should we think about the relationship between the legacy of colonialism, genocide, and militarism and radiological/toxic contamination? || -Interviews with “stakeholders”
 * Contribute to a rethinking of environmentalism / ecology || -What kind of environmentalism is appropriate to an already contaminated world?

Attending relevant meetings and hearings -Interviews with scientists, engineers, journalists, and policymakers working on the issue -Interviews with those involved in various aspects of the environmental movement -Perhaps some archival work || -Should move from conservation as central value to producing better socionatural world

-Should move away from thinking of “environmental” as a separate bundle of issues, and towards a more holistic approach || -Critical geography / green socialism

-Environmental justice

-New materialism ||