Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Tanya Matthan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/11/you-are-what-you-grow-crops-cultivation-and-caste-in-india/. About the post: Dr. Tanya Matthan reflects on her ethnographic work in Malwa, Central India and the remarkable importance of cultivated onions as embodiments of caste relationalities.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Sebastián Rubiano-Galvis can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/11/toxicity-violence-and-the-legacies-of-mercury-and-gold-mining-in-colombia/. About the post: In this post, Sebastián Rubiano-Galvis explores the toxic legacies of mercury and gold mining in Colombia and asks how to repair this accumulated violence...

This episode presents a recording of CASPR 2022, or the CASTAC in the Spring 2022 mentoring event, organized to encourage dialogue on breaking down binaries that have separated academe and industry. Angela VandenBroek (TXTS), Melissa Cefkin (Waymo), and Dawn Nafus (Intel) discuss their work in leading socially-informed research in industry contexts. Transcript available at https://blog.castac.org/...

In this episode, Platypod presents a conversation between Baird Campbell (Rice University) and Ilana Gershon (Indiana University Bloomington). They discuss the politics of connection and disconnection via social media in Chile and the US. Transcript available at https://blog.castac.org/2022/10/platypod-episode-four-connections-and-disconnections-on-social-media/

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Princess Banda can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/10/embracing-black-positionalities-recentring-slowness-a-challenge-to-anthropologys-anti-racism-efforts/. About the post: Anthropologist Princess Banda discusses the importance of centring slowness within anti-racist research and praxis while drawing on insigh...

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ramsha Usman can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/10/injury-and-fitness-responsibility-through-biomedicine/. About the post: This is a reading of Ramsha Usman's post Injury and Fitness: Responsibility through Biomedicine.

In this episode, Platypod presents a conversation between Elizabeth Roberts (the University of Michigan) and Sophia Jaworski (the University of Toronto). They discuss the complexities of corporeal life in toxic environments.  Transcript available at https://blog.castac.org/2022/09/platypod-episode-three-disability-toxicity-and-the-environment/

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Savannah Mandel can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/09/all-these-worlds-are-yours-except-europa-building-colonies-without-colonization/. About the post: In her post, Savannah Mandel explores whether space colonies can be built without extending imperialist legacies.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Lakshita Malik can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/09/photoshopping-desire-gender-caste-and-the-authentic-self/. About the post: Lakshita Malik looks at the serious stakes of using “silly” filters on social media.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by alejandra ruiz-leon can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/08/interactive-science-museums-replicating-science-without-a-context/. About the post: Alejandra Ruiz-Leon explores the popularization of interactive science museums, the version of science they claim to present, and the lessons of studying Latin America'...

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Benjamin Hegarty can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/08/prep-on-trial-the-future-of-hiv-in-indonesian-policy-worlds/. About the post: Benjamin Hegarty reflects on an unfolding PrEP trial in Indonesia, asking what queer theories might emerge from engagement within such postcolonial contexts, where dynamic relat...

In this episode, Laura Heath-Stout (Brandeis University) and Rebecca-Eli Long (Purdue University) discuss their research and experiences of ableism in academia, anthropology, and higher ed, in general. Transcript available at https://blog.castac.org/2022/08/platypod-episode-two-ableism-in-academia-and-higher-ed/

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ángela Castillo-Ardila can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/08/counting-on-montane-birds-biologists-verticality-and-territorial-defense-in-colombia/. About the post: Ángela Castillo-Ardilla's piece is about the unforeseen and sometimes overlooked connection between (i) birds living in the forests of Colombia’s...

In this episode, Cassandra Hartblay and Zihao Lin are discussing the politics, research methodologies, and technologies around accessibility. This episode was created with the participation of Cassandra Hartblay (University of Toronto, speaker) and Zihao Lin (University of Chicago, speaker), Kim Fernandes (University of Pennsylvania, host), Svetlana Borodina (Columbia University, host), Gebby Keny...

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Aishani Khurana can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/07/mismanaging-algorithms-of-hate-the-nexus-of-big-tech-and-the-state-in-india/. About the post: The authoritarian regimes, in compliance with big tech, set discursive boundaries for the minorities who not only suffer the brunt of online hate speech as victim...

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Gabrielle Hanley-Mott can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/06/the-allowable-limit-of-disability/. About the post: My argument here is that it is important to decouple physical pain from the idea of suffering; These dogs are in pain, and the process of commoditization, at the hands of humans, has led to their pa...

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Benjamin Schaefer can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/06/detangling-molecular-hauntings-hair-as-a-site-of-preserving-lived-experience/. About the post: Using ancient molecules, such as hormones, embedded in hair renders it possible to reconstruct the socially embodied lived experiences, by inferring their psyc...

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Cara Ryan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/06/inclusion-and-opportunities-for-equal-participation-for-autistic-university-students-in-france/. About the post: When a previously excluded group (like those identified as “aspies”) becomes “included” in something (like the French public university system) that...

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Nathan Klembara can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/05/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei-in-epistemologies-the-line-between-bodies-and-ideas/. About the post: If we are going to make archaeology, and other sciences, truly inclusive, DEI initiatives require reconceptualizing what science is, not just changing...

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Svetlana Borodina can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/05/technologies-of-equal-participation-formats-designs-practices-introduction/. About the post: If Kelty looks back in time and offers a historical ethnography of participation in the Western world, the posts of this series look synchronically and laterally...

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Kymberley Chu can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/05/viral-entanglements-in-malaysian-porcine-worlds/. About the post: A More-than-Human One Health approach encourages cooperation among humans and nonhumans in facilitating interspecies solidarity. Perhaps, we can start by imagining post-extractivist imaginarie...

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Valentina Moraima Acuña Bravo can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/05/thinking-in-constellations-problematizing-indigeneity-in-the-atacama-desert-chile/. About the post: Thinking in constellations allows us to delve into the unique experience and the history of different conceptions of indigeneity instead of fo...

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Doyeon Shin can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/05/revisiting-human-machine-relationships-and-efforts-of-feminist-sts/. About the post: Feminist STS perspectives and critiques are fundamental in this reimagining of human-machine relationships because they open new prospects for pondering related mainstream ide...

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Catarina Morawska, Ana Cecília Oliveira Campos, Bruno Campos Cardoso, Felipe Vander Velden, Gabriel Sanchez, Luisa Fanaro and Luisa Tui Sampaio can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/04/alliances-and-institutional-partnerships-for-an-engaged-anthropology-of-science-and-technology/. About the post: Conceptual tran...

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Liz Jackson, Alex Haagaard and Rua Williams can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/04/disability-dongle/. About the post: Disability Dongles are contemporary fairy tales that appeal to the abled imagination by presenting a heroic designer-protagonist whose prototype provides a techno-utopian (re)solution to the d...