Lisa Ng

Job title: 
PhD Designated Emphasis in STS
Department: 
Department of Ethnic Studies
Bio/CV: 

Lisa Ng is a PhD student in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California, Berkeley.  She is interested in exploring the shifting dialectic between race, waste, and technology.  Her research examines how trash is used as a confrontational political tool in various social movements against local and global neoliberal economic policies, and how these techniques of resistance represent new imaginations of futurity and relationality.

Research interests: 

Discard Studies, Social Movement Studies, Ethnic Studies, Science and Technology Studies