: analyzing the epistemic politics of care/neglect or simply,

Epistemologies of Neglect

I study the framing and implementation of global nuclear regulatory system across India’s nuclear fuel cycle and the plural ways of perceiving the invisible radiation by both institutional and local people. Intrigued by pores through which radioactive elements travel into life worlds, I adopt a methodology to study irradiation, namely radio-porosity, following radiation as it enters porous spaces in life and academic worlds. This has taken me to studying nuclear technoscientific controversy through sensory studies, the study of expertise, study of ignorance, more-than-human anthropology, study of soils (pedology), hydrology, postcolonial studies, feminist science studies using epistemological approaches and also, naturally, the role of porosity and associated technologies in radioactive contamination. I analyze neglect of radioactive contamination in each of these spheres radioporosity has led me to and this has led me to conceptualizing “epistemologies of neglect”- a framework that analyzes the epistemic politics of care and neglect.

Tummalapalle Uranium Mine and Mill (click on image to expand)