About

Réka Gál is a Postdoctoral Researcher and feminist technoscience scholar at the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Technische Universität München. She completed her doctorate at the University of Toronto‘s Faculty of Information. In her doctoral research, she mapped the genealogies of technological maintenance and care labors related to US American human spaceflight, focusing on the implications of human-machine interdependence in outer space as it relates to issues of labor and environmental justice. Her latest research project explores the environmental politics of green propellant development. She has completed her master’s in Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her work unites feminist media theory, feminist and anticolonial technoscience, and environmental history and anthropology to explore how technological tools and scientific methods are employed to purportedly solve socio-political problems. She is the co-editor of Earth and Beyond in Tumultuous Times: A Critical Atlas of the Anthropocene, published by meson press.

Contact:

reka.gal@tum.de