Forthcoming Book release! Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes (University of Minnesota Press, 2021) challenges the notion that the best approach to understanding, managing, and curing Type 2 diabetes is through the lens of race. It also transforms how we think about sugar, filling a neglected gap between the sugar- and molasses-sweetened past of the enslaved African laborer and the high-fructose corn syrup- and corporate-fed body of the contemporary consumer-laborer. Continue Reading Forthcoming Book release! Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
SJTP concludes comparative cross-campus review of graduate curriculum that make questions of gender and social justice fundamental to STEM training
SJRC concludes a project set out to compare two graduate training programs that center issues of gender, race, and social justice as fundamental to science training in STEM curriculums. Continue Reading SJTP concludes comparative cross-campus review of graduate curriculum that make questions of gender and social justice fundamental to STEM training
Website Launch! Unjustly Exposed – interactive documentary on COVID in prisons and jails
Unjustly Exposed – an interactive documentary on COVID in prisons and jails Continue Reading Website Launch! Unjustly Exposed – interactive documentary on COVID in prisons and jails
Tech Futures: 52 Conversation Starter Card Deck
The Science & Justice Research Center is co-sponsoring a project with the Center for Public Philosophy to create a deck of playing cards that will catalyze conversations about ethics and technology, and we want your ideas. Cards will not tell players what to think. They are a playful way to stimulate dialogue on some of… Continue Reading Tech Futures: 52 Conversation Starter Card Deck
SJTP fellow awarded AAUW fellowship
Science and Justice Training Program Fellow, Vivian Underhill, awarded a 2020-21 American Association of University Women (AAUW) Fellowship for work on intergenerational environmental-justice activism around fracking and groundwater in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Continue Reading SJTP fellow awarded AAUW fellowship
World Records Journal Vol. 4 | In The Presence of Others
Using Hannah Arendt’s writings to rethink the role of documentary in visualizing and producing common worlds, The World Records Journal has launched Vol. 4 In The Presence of Others. This issue of World Records puts Arendt’s work into counterpoint with documentary media and cultures. Included is Conditions: Warren Sack in conversation with Jenny Reardon and Bonnie… Continue Reading World Records Journal Vol. 4 | In The Presence of Others
Forthcoming Book release! Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance (PM Press, 2021)
About the Book Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance (PM Press, forthcoming) brings together cartography, essays, illustrations, poetry, and more in order to depict gentrification and resistance struggles from across the San Francisco Bay Area and act as a roadmap to counter-hegemonic knowledge making and activism. Compiled by the Anti-Eviction… Continue Reading Forthcoming Book release! Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance (PM Press, 2021)
Covid-19 Pandemicene Podcast
The Pandemicene Podcast aims to produce knowledge that can help all of us – scholars and scientists, students and activists – imagine and enact just futures both in our home state of California and in our communities worldwide. Podcast Episodes Each new episode airs Sunday evenings, 6:30 – 7 pm, on KZSC Santa Cruz. Episode 1:… Continue Reading Covid-19 Pandemicene Podcast