STS Research Seminar: Dr Trishant Simlai
Join this STS Research Seminar with Dr Trishant Simlai
STS Research Seminar: Dr Trishant Simlai
23 Nov 2022, 15:00 – 16:30
Negotiating the Gaze: People, Power and Conservation Surveillance in the Corbett Tiger Reserve, India
Based on 14 months of Ethnographic fieldwork in India, this talk will reveal the social and political implications of using conservation surveillance technologies. Trishant argues that technologies like camera traps, drones and thermal cameras are deployed for ecological monitoring however they seamlessly become tools of surveillance by the state. These technologies exacerbate already prevalent social injustices and structural inequalities of gender, caste and class.
Trishant is a conservation geographer/sociologist working as a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Cambridge. He completed a PhD in Geography at Cambridge where his thesis investigated the social and political implications of surveillance technologies in conservation. Trishant’s research interests broadly revolve around the politics of conservation in India and specifically on the politics of conservation militarisation.
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Free
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UCL staff
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