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Jieun Cho

Postdoctoral Associate
University Initiatives & Academic Support Units
2204 Erwin Rd, Room 140, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Nuclear Becoming: Imaging and Imagining Patchy Radiation in Post-Fallout Fukushima - Sensory Approaches to Landscapes, Labor, Livelihoods, and Lifeworlds · 2022 International Meeting or Conference Dimensions of Political Ecology (DOPE), Lexington, KY
The Nuclearization of Life: Family, Nation, and the Environment in Postwar Japan - Life-Giving Objects: Sensing the Social in Precarious Ecologies of East Asia · 2022 International Meeting or Conference Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, HI
Life Optimized: Imaging and Imagining Patchy Radiation in Post-Fallout Fukushima - Senses and Sensing · 2021 International Meeting or Conference American Anthropological Association, Baltimore, MD
“Closer to the Ground": Patchy Radiation, Children’s Body, and the Stakes of (Un)Knowing in Post-Nuclear Fukushima - Acknowledging Residues: the (Un-)Making of an Environmental Concern - II · August 2020 International Meeting or Conference Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), (Virtual) Prague, Czech Republic
Radiation in Envelopes: Exposure and Disclosure at a Laboratory in Post-Meltdown Japan - “(Un)Making the Anthropocene: Changing Environment, Emerging Anthropos, Agentive Imaginaries · November 2018 International Meeting or Conference American Anthropological Association, San José, CA

Academic & Administrative Activities


Graduate Assistant for the Ethnography Workshop 2020-22, Duke Humanities Unbounded (http://https://sites.duke.edu/ethnographyworkshop/)