Profile

Udo Krautwurst
Name:
Udo Krautwurst
Email:
ukrautwurst@upei.ca
Position:
Associate Professor
Department:
Sociology and Anthropology
Phone:
902-566-0306
Building:
SDU Main Building 528
Island Scholar:
Island Scholar Biography

Associate 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.

Research Interests
  • Africa
  • Kinship and family
  • Social organization
  • Visual anthropology
  • Knowledge and culture
  • Colonialism and post-colonialism
  • Post-structural theory
  • Science and technology studies

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