Majia Nadesan
Majia Nadesan’s interdisciplinary research examines the ethical implications of societal governing logics and risk-management strategies. She has examined how expert understandings of autism shape how people diagnosed with the disorder are understood and treated in her book Constructing Autism (Routledge, 2005). In Governmentality, Biopower and Everyday Life (2008, 2011, Routledge), she looked at how global economic logics and technological assemblages shape everyday life practices and opportunities for U.S. citizens. In Governing Childhood, she examined how these same economic logics and technological infrastructures affect children’s daily lives, creating vastly unequal childhoods. Most recently, she has looked at how politics and scientific uncertainty complicate risk assessment in Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk (2013, Palgrave Pivot) and addressed risks to democratic society through comparative risk analyses of three crises in Crisis Communication, Liberal Democracy and Ecological Sustainability (Lexington, 2016).
