Katie Vann
Katie Vann (NL) is a social theorist and organizational ethnographer.
Katie Vann
Katie Vann works
with the Virtual Knowledge Studio in Amsterdam (of which she is a Founding Member) and with the Center for
Science, Technology and Society at Santa Clara University.
She researches the cultural and institutional technologies of
neoliberal sociality and political-economic order. Past and ongoing
work has focused on the classification of work, the political
implications of the discrepancy between formal and informal work, and
the business implications of late 20th century social studies of
knowledge.
Current empirical research focuses on the organization of transnational
water governance, with an emphasis on the cultural construction of
policy formation, water management procedures, and accountability
regimes. The project on water management investigates the political
rationality of a contemporary transnational water management paradigm
(IWRM), its communicative and normative status as a form of globally
circulated 'soft law', and its manifestation in the
representational/classificatory practices of the United Nations in its
assessment of the legitimacy of the water management activities of
Nation States.
Katie Vann has a PhD in Communication Studies from the University of California, San Diego, as well as degrees in Interdisciplinary Social Science (MA) and Continental Philosophy (BA). She has published in a range of social science and humanities journals. She was born and raised in Louisiana, and lives in San Francisco.
http://www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/
