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Kim Fortun
Researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Publications - 28
Citations - 1079
Kim Fortun is an academic researcher from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ethnography & Environmentalism. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 27 publications receiving 782 citations.
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Ethnography in Late Industrialism
TL;DR: In this article, the authors situate contemporary ethnography within late industrialism, a historical period characterized by degraded infrastructure, exhausted paradigms, and the incessant chatter of new media.
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Scientific Imaginaries and Ethical Plateaus in Contemporary U.S. Toxicology
Kim Fortun,Mike Fortun +1 more
TL;DR: A growing literature in the anthropology of science, focusing on contemporary U.S. toxicology and the development of "toxicogenomics" is described in this paper, which aims to understand impacts of environmental stressors at the genetic level and to create a "systems toxicology" that combines different kinds of biological data for holistic understanding.
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Human Rights Law and the Demonization of Culture (And Anthropology Along the Way)
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From Latour to late industrialism
TL;DR: The authors argue that Latour's semiotics are functionalist in a way that mimics industrial logic, discounting both the production of hierarchical differentiation within a given system, and the system's externalizations.
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Transdisciplinary research strategies for understanding socially patterned disease: the Asthma Coalition on Community, Environment, and Social Stress (ACCESS) project as a case study
Rosalind J. Wright,Shakira F. Suglia,Jonathan I. Levy,Kim Fortun,Alexandra E. Shields,Sankaran Subramanian,Robert O. Wright +6 more
TL;DR: This paper provides an overview of a multilevel, multimethod longitudinal study, the Asthma Coalition on Community, Environment and Social Stress (ACCESS), as a case study to exemplify both the opportunities and challenges of transdisciplinary research on urban asthma expression in the United States.