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Timothy Choy
Title: Assistant Professor
Email Address: tkchoy@ucdavis.edu
Web Site: http://sts.ucdavis.edu
Telephone: 530-754-4848
FAX: (530) 752-8964
Home Department: Science and Technology Studies
Graduate Programs
Areas of Research
- Global Climate Change - Effects of climate change politics on how region, locality, and globality are imagined and politicized.
Research Summary
- Completing a book on environmental politics in Hong Kong, focusing on how environmental knowledge is deployed in politics of endangered species and in the substantiation of air as an environmental problem. Analysis includes the emergence of air quality and environmentalism as indices for international comparison. Beginning second project on the idioms, instruments, institutions through which air is becoming subject to care and management. Focus is on materialization of air at the intersection of expert regimes (scientific, legal, and economic) and lay concerns. Project includes conceptual challenges that air politics pose to politics of state and/or identity and to logics of causal specificity
Teaching Summary
- I teach science and society classes at the undergraduate level. I teach anthropology of science and social theory at the graduate level.
