In this reading group, we will will focus on the topic of ‘Blue Elemental Politics and Science and Technology Studies (STS)’. It will be chaired by Dr Giulia Champion and Dr Elis Jones and held at 8-9pm BST on the 7th October. Please adjust to your own time zone. The meeting will be held on Zoom.

We are reading:

• Jue, Melody, and Rafico Ruiz. “Thinking with Saturation Beyond Water: Thresholds, Phase Change, and the Precipitate.” Saturation: An Elemental Politics (2021): 1-26.

• Fish, Adam. “Blue Governmentality: Elemental Activism with Conservation Technologies on Plundered Seas.” Political Geography 93 (2022): 102528, available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629821001888.

• Helmreich, Stefan. A Book of Waves. Duke University Press, 2023. Chapter 2: “Flipping the Ship: Oriented Knowledge, Media, and Waves in the Field, Scripps Institution of Oceanography” (91-157).

Members will receive a Calendar invitation with the readings and Zoom link.

If you are not yet a member, please register here: https://forms.gle/r7b8dfCVbXHr3YRx6