“Ethnographies of Technology” with Alexandrine Royer, Debra Phelps, Sakari Mesimäki, and Dr Xin Zhan
This two-hour roundtable discussion invites early-career researchers specializing in different ethnographic locales to explore the intersection of technology, work and power. Panellists will take turns answering prompts related to tech subjectivities and labour, notions of social, economic and environmental progress, and emergent political debates and/or mobilizations within their respective field sites. The discussion format intends to draw out the parallels, and frictions, in how techno-capitalism principles and practices appear in contexts such as London, Helsinki, Nairobi and Kigali. The session will also include a thirty-minute question-and-answer period for audience members.
Chaired by Professor Sian Lazar
Discussant Dr Gillian Tett
In collaboration with student members of the Department of Social Anthropology