6-0505 MAKING PLANS: EXPERTISE, FUTURES, HISTORIES

Sunday, November 20, 2011: 12:15-14:00

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

Organizers: Nicholas J D'Avella (University of California, Davis) and Eli A Elinoff (UCSD Anthropology)

Chairs: Nicholas J D'Avella (University of California, Davis) and Eli A Elinoff (UCSD Anthropology)

Discussants: Andrew S Mathews (UC Santa Cruz)

12:15

Tensions In Planning Space

Charlotte Linde (NASA Ames Research Center)

12:30

Planning the Unforeseeable. the Scientific Management of Environmental Collapse In the Brazilian Amazon

David Rojas (Cornell University and Universidade de Brasilia)

12:45

Crisis Histories, Brick Futures: Personal Investment, Money, and Real Estate In Buenos Aires, Argentina

Nicholas J D'Avella (University of California, Davis)

13:00

Contingent City: Bureaucratic Interventions and Urban Possibilities At the Limits of the Thai State

Eli A Elinoff (UCSD Anthropology)

13:15

Plans, Projects and PowerPoints: The Cosmopolitics of Reconstruction Plans in a Post-Disaster Situation

Ignacio Farias (Social Science Research Center Berlin)

13:30

Discussant

Andrew S Mathews (UC Santa Cruz)

13:45

Discussion

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