Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
Affiliate, Data & Society
Platypus, Managing Editor
Editor, Platypus, The CASTAC Blog
Research Interests
Accessibility | Anthropology of Infrastructure | Anthropology of Knowledges | Applied Anthropology | Artificial intelligence | Biotech | bodily epistemologies | Digital Anthropology | Disability | Socio-cultural / legal / linguistic and medical anthropology | South Asia |
About Kim
Kim Fernandes is a researcher, writer and educator interested in disability, data and technology in urban India. They are currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Fernandes holds a joint Ph.D. with Distinction in Anthropology & Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Development in 2024. Their recent work has been funded by the Social Science Research Council and the Taraknath Das Foundation’s Marion Jemmott Fellowship.
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Platypus in 2025
Welcome to Platypus in 2025! Last year, we published over 65 posts, almost half of which were also in a second language, and maintained a readership from 169 different countries. A full summary of CASTAC’s activities in 2024 can be found at our 2024 Year in Review. As we look ahead to another engaging year of publishing a wide range of work from the social sciences on science and technology, we are thankful for the labor that our editorial team and our authors continue to put in. We are also very grateful to you, our readers – thank you for being here every week! (more…) (read more...)