SCHOLAR DETAILS
Name
Udo Krautwurst
Email
ukrautwurst@upei.ca
Position
Faculty Member
Department(s)
Sociology and Anthropology
Phone
902-566-0306
Building
SDU Main Building 528
Status
Current
Biography
Professor
BA, MA (Manitoba); PhD (Connecticut)
Dr. Krautwurst is a social theorist with particular interest in the anthropology of representations and the historical confrontations between different means of knowledge production and technology. Recently, he has been researching and theorizing the anthropology of science and technology on PEI; he is studying the cultural practices surrounding information technologies and biotechnoscience and how these practices link to issues of power and issues of knowledge production that affect social relations.
Recent Citations
The social life of standards: Ethnographic methods for local engagement,
2021
Anthropologica,
2021
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute,
2017
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute,
2016
Research Interests
Africa
Kinship and family
Social organization
Visual anthropology
Knowledge and culture
Colonialism and post-colonialism
Post-structural theory
Science and technology studies