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SUMMARY:Bombarding with data? Drones\, oil extraction and environmental ju
 stice in the Amazon - Murat Arsel\, Murat Arsel\, International Institute 
 of Social Studies (ISS)\, Erasmus University Rotterdam
DTSTART:20181024T120000Z
DTEND:20181024T130000Z
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CONTACT:Lucy Goodman
DESCRIPTION:With falling prices and improving technology\, drones have gon
 e mainstream. Their use is no longer limited to barely acknowledged milita
 ry missions. In addition to becoming yet another fashionable gadget for af
 fluent consumers\, they have found a variety of uses around the world for 
 progressive causes. This presentation focuses on one such example\, the de
 ployment of drones (together with other 'frugal but advanced' hardware and
  software) to enhance community-based environmental monitoring of the impa
 cts of oil extraction in the Ecuadorian Amazon. It will seek to answer two
  related questions: What types of epistemological assumptions and implicat
 ions accompany the coupling of 'advanced technologies' with indigenous kno
 wledge? To what extent can such combinations help dismantle existing struc
 tural inequalities between affected communities on the one side and corpor
 ations and the state on the other?
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography
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