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Cindy Kaiying Lin

Cindy Lin is an ethnographer and information science assistant professor at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University. Her first single-authored book project explores statecraft and computing practices in the environmental and mapping sciences in Indonesia and the professional identities and government institutions that emerged from these efforts. icon

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Protean Environment and Political Possibilities

By Cindy Kaiying Lin

As the planet warms, environmental destruction obliges us to revise the technoscience expertise and institutions once based on colonial legacies.

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