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X-WR-CALNAME:Tropical Polar Bears: A Story of Militarization\, Oil Industri
 alization\, and Singapore
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DESCRIPTION:Gatty Lecture Series\n\nJoin us for a talk by Juno Salazar Parr
 eñas\, Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Feminist
 \, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University.\n\nThis Gatty Lec
 ture will take place at the Kahin Center\, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be 
 served. For questions\, contact seap@cornell.edu.\n\nAbstract\n\nIn 1978\,
  the tropical city-state of Singapore received three polar bears\, startin
 g a dynasty of polar bears that ended in 2018. Within the lifespan of thes
 e tropical polar bears\, the entire planet has undergone rapid and exponen
 tial growth in economies\, human populations\, agricultural intensificatio
 n\, deforestation\, and the burning and consuming of carbon and chemicals-
 -all indelibly changing the entire planet. Singapore has been a central hu
 b for 20th and 21st century economic development\, despite its dearth of n
 atural resources. How might the story of Singapore’s famously cultivated
  landscape be told from the perspective of wild Canadian-born polar bears 
 held captive in tropical Singapore? What forms of ferality erupted the con
 trolled landscape of Singapore Zoo? This paper is based on ongoing archiva
 l and ethnographic research in Singapore\, Canada\, and the US.\n\nAbout t
 he Speaker\n\nJuno Salazar Parreñas is an Associate Professor of Science 
 and Technology Studies and Feminist\, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Corn
 ell University. Her book Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Oran
 gutan Rehabilitation (Duke UP\, 2018) received the Michelle Rosaldo Prize 
 from the Association for Feminist Anthropology and honorable mentions for 
 the Association of Asian Studies' Harry Benda Prize\, Society for Medical 
 Anthropology's New Millenia Award\, and the American Anthropological Assoc
 iation's Diana Forsythe Prize. She is also the editor of Gender: Animals (
 Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks\, 2017)
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LOCATION:Kahin Center
SUMMARY:Tropical Polar Bears: A Story of Militarization\, Oil Industrializa
 tion\, and Singapore
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/tropical-polar-bears-a-story
 -of-militarization-oil-industrialization-and-singapore
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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