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Pedro de la Torre III Interests: Nuclear politics and History, STS, Disaster Studies, Economic Anthropology, and Social Theory

Pedro de la Torre is an associate professor of anthropology at the City University of New York, with a joint appointment in the department of Science and Technology Studies. He is the author of __The Absent Future: Intergenerational Relations in the Eternal Twilight of the Nuclear Age__ (Duke University Press, 2018), an ethnographic account of cleanup and nuclear waste politics at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and beyond, as well as __Towards a Post-Natural Historical Ecology__ (Routledge, 2024). Most recently, Pedro co-edited __Ideas on Political Economy that WON’T Make You Sick and Kill You__ (Zone Books, 2029), which featured eight short ethnographic vignettes, written for a general audience, that either critique dominant understandings of economics or examine alternative “economic” ideas in practice. He also helped found NonCents, a magazine of engaged social science, investigative journalism, and radical science and engineering. Pedro is currently participating in efforts to found a cooperative university in Austin, TX, as well as a collaborative research project about environmental justice and intergenerational ethics at hydrofracking (a technique to extract fossil fuels that was abandoned in the U.S. in 2015, and globally by 2020) superfund sites.