Christina D-H

STS, professor in Comm program
(USC Annenberg, USA)

Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism

my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at tools for commensality 🧿 (npub1aq0…mq9f)

"personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's

header: oil extraction, palm trees

profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped)

#STS #Commodon #NoIndex #NoArchive

My 📚:: https://christinadunbarhester.wordpress.com/
Open access papers:: https://hcommons.org/members/cdunbarhester/
Whereabouts:: California
Answers to:: she, they

Last Notes

2026-04-29 04:34:06 UTC

"What if we could start over and build the Internet from scratch? How could it be rebuilt or reimagined as more equitable and just? ... Paris critically examines the myriad and contradictory promises, utility, and obstacles to building a completely new Internet.
Radical Infrastructure locates and analyzes the boundaries of how people and groups imagine, build, deploy, maintain, and use the Internet as they survive—and even dare to thrive—in challenging political, economic, and environmental contexts. Ultimately, Paris encourages active reflection among scholars, policymakers, and activists and reveals more grounded imaginaries, tactics, and opportunities for future people-centered projects"
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/radical-infrastructure/paper
#OpenAccess #InternetStudies #Bookstodon #Commodon #InfrastructureStudies #RadicalInfrastructure #STS

2026-04-13 22:16:06 UTC

I am very excited to share that University of Chicago Press is giving away my book OIL BEACH for FREE this month (as an e-book)
Link is here: https://press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html
#STS #Bookstodon #EnvHist #CriticalLogistics #OilBeach #FossilFuels #oil #pollution #AnimalStudies #ecology #ports #LosAngeles
https://spaces.hcommons.social/media_attachments/files/116/399/694/955/270/647/original/1062dcf0b9e728c2.png

2025-11-07 17:50:33 UTC

GLOBALIZING WILDLIFE is now available for pre-order with UNC Press! and what a cover!
My contribution is a chapter about otter conservation, juxtaposing the free movement of consumer goods and fossil fuel with otter containment in coastal California
Pre-orders save 30% with code 01SOCIAL30
https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469694757/globalizing-wildlife/
#AnimalStudies #EnvHist #STS #conservation #bookstodon #shipping #oil #California #histodons
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2024-09-18 18:05:40 UTC

"...gender is a racial structure.
Womanhood is not a universal category, but instead is an aspect of whiteness that was positioned by definition as unobtainable for nonwhite women, specifically black women. scientists who were inventing and codifying the idea of sex difference in the 19th century—not just the cultural role of gender, but the idea of physiological and anatomical sex difference... These folks argued that full sex differentiation was only achieved by whites."
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-trouble-with-white-women-an-interview-with-kyla-schuller/
#STS #GenderStudies #HistSTM

2024-09-17 17:28:55 UTC

Contested Ports is a collaborative, non-exhaustive platform that documents conflicts between people and #ports. It highlights community resistance strategies and is a hub to share resources that deepen critical engagement with the unsustainable effects of #maritime #logistics
https://www.contestedports.com/
#CounterPort