" Digital Archiving for Environmental Health and Justice: The Global Case of Formosa Plastics"
In this presentation, I explore the potential of digital archives as an emerging, experimental way to produce, curate, and politically activate data concerning environmental and health justice issues. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork focused on the Taiwan-based Formosa Plastics Group, I emphasize the role of data in research and advocacy against the harms of the expanding petrochemical industries. The study and design of ethnographic archives, understood as lively workspaces, opens new avenues for social science analysis, collaboration, and modes of expression; archiving-as-method also prompts critical questions about our data ideologies, ethical commitments, and the knowledge infrastructure necessary to address next-generation environmental justice issues.

▲Speaker: Tim Schütz
PhD Candidate, Dept of Anthropology and EcoGovLab, University of California-Irvine
PhD Researcher, College of Innovation, NCCU
▲Date: 2024.03.19,1-3 pm
▲Venue: R505,Teaching & Research Building,Shuang Ho Campus, TMU.
▲Registration ─ Please contact me on Facebook Messenger.