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Kim Fernandes

CASTAC-Net Member

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto

Affiliate, Data & Society

Platypus, Managing Editor

Contributing 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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