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ARC 524: Making Legible: Environmental Sensing and the Politics of Measurement

Postgraduate course

Project description

Data about environmental risks and harms play an instrumental role in conflicts around pollution. But often, the circumstances of how data were collected, whose interests they represent, and which perspectives they include are equally controversial as their content. This seminar provides a framework for the production, use, and critique of environmental data. With a site in New Jersey as a case study, we explore technologies for sensing the environment and investigate the politics and justice issues entangled in environmental data collection.