Science and Technology Studies, Politics, and Public Management

In this session of the April 7-9, 2011 conference "Science and Technology Studies: The Next Twenty," Andrew Lakoff (USC) and Alan Irwin (Copenhagen Business School) discuss the role STS has to play in studying disasters. Centered on Lakoff's recent book,"Disaster and the Politics of Intervention," they discuss how disaster is most usefully seen as a central feature of 21st century governance and society Visit the conference web site: http://stsnext20.org/
Learn more about the Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard Kennedy School: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/

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• Science and Technology Studies
• public management
• harvard kennedy school
• politics