Kim Fortun

Main interestsEnvironmental risk and disasterNotable worksAdvocacy After Bhopal Websitehttp://kfortun.org

Kim Fortun, an American anthropologist, is a professor at University of California Irvine's department of anthropology.^[2] Her interests extend also to science and technology studies with a focus on environmental risk and disaster. From 2017 to 2019, she has served as the president of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).^[3]

In 2003, Fortun's first book, Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New World Orders, was awarded the Sharon Stephens Prize by the American Ethnological Society.^[4] From 2005 to 2010, she edited the Journal of Cultural Anthropology.^[5] Fortun currently helps lead multiple collaborative projects, including The Asthma Files and the Platform for Experimental and Collaborative Ethnography (PECE).^[6]

Selected works

• Fortun, Kim (2001). Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New World Orders. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. OCLC 916106017. (Awarded the Sharon Stephens Prize, 2003).
• Fortun, Kim; Fortun, Mike, eds. (2010). Major Works in Cultural Anthropology, Vol 1: Moorings, Vol 2: Modernities, Vol 3: Emergence, Vol 4: Engagements. Sage. OCLC 759926547.

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External links

Official website