dr. JL (Jess) Bier

Biography

Jess Bier is an associate professor of urban sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Overall her work engages with the social and political impacts of scientific and technical knowledge.

Jess's research is situated at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and critical geography. She draws on theories of racial capitalism, Black feminism, decolonial theory, and feminist theories of technoscience. Her first book, Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine, analyzes the ways that landscapes of military and humanitarian occupation have shaped digital cartography in Jerusalem and the West Bank since 1967.

Jess is currently the principal investigator of the ERC-funded Digiports project, which seeks to better understand how injustices are reproduced in times of radical technological change. Digiports focuses on how the digitalization of container shipping is reshaping racial and labor inequalities in Rotterdam, Shanghai, and Los Angeles. The project team also contribute to debates over the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in reworking contemporary capitalism.

Jess's dissertation received the 2016 Maastricht University Dissertation Prize, awarded to the best dissertation submitted to the university during the previous two years. From 2013-16, Jess was a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC-Funded Monitoring Modernity project at Erasmus University, where she conducted ethnographic research on the international efforts to monitor financial flows following the 2007-08 financial crisis.

PDFs of Dr. Bier’s publications can be downloaded from www.jessbier.org/publications.

Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences

Associate professor | Science Public Issues and Imaginaries
Email
bier@essb.eur.nl

Work

  • Jess Bier (21 juni 2022) - Bodies of the Titanic: Found and Lost Again
  • Jess Bier, M Dap & F Ntow (4 juni 2020) - Police Violence and Systemic Racism
  • Jess Bier (1 januari 2018) - New Texts Out Now: Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: Occupied Landscapes of International Technoscience.

  • Jess Bier (2021) - Engaging Science and Technology Studies (External organisation) (Chair)
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  • Jess Bier (2018) - Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) (External organisation) (Member)
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  • Jess Bier (2017) - Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (External organisation) (Member)
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  • Jess Bier (2017) - National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (USA) (External organisation) (Member)
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  • Jess Bier (2017) - Maastricht University Dissertation Prize
  • Jess Bier (2013) - PhD Paper Prize, Middle East Section (MES), American Anthropological Association (AAA)

4.2 Infrastructures of Power

Year
2024
Course Code
FSWS-520A

News regarding dr. JL (Jess) Bier

Documentaire festival ‘AIDocs: Very Social Tech Docs’

Festival 'AIDocs: Very Social Tech Docs' belicht sociale en maatschappelijke implicaties van technologische ontwikkelingen, mbv documentaires over AI.

ERC Starting Grant voor Jess Bier voor onderzoek naar hoe digitalisering in de container scheepvaart ongelijkheden opnieuw vormgeeft

Technieksocioloog dr. Jess Bier van de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam heeft de prestigieuze startsubsidie van 1,5 miljoen van het ERC toegekend gekregen.

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