Please circulate widely. And sorry for cross-postings. Book launch Disasters and Politics: Materials, Experiments, Preparedness Edited by Manuel Tironi, Israel Rodríguez-Giralt and Michel Guggenheim Published by Wiley-Blackwell and The Sociological Review Monograph Series. Friday 4 April, 18:00, Centre for Collective Collaboration 16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG. Presenters: Peter Adey, Geography RHUL Noortje Marres, Sociology Goldsmiths Mark Pelling, Geography KCL followed by Nibbles and Drinks Attendance is free, but space is limited. Please register with [log in to unmask] With kind support by the European Research Council. with contributions by Nigel Clark, Israel Rodríguez-Giralt, Francisco Tirado, Manuel Tironi, Ignacio Farías, Katrina Petersen, Lucy Easthope and Maggie Mort, Ryan Ellis, Joe Deville, Michael Guggenheim and Zuzana Hrdlièková, Gisa Weszkalnys and Mike Michael Table of contents: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sore.2014.62.issue-s1/issuetoc Dr Manuel Tironi Visiting Fellow (2013-2014) Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process Department of Sociology Goldsmiths, University of London http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/csisp/ +44 (0)20 7078 5058 Assistant professor Instituto de Sociología P. Universidad Católica de Chile +56 2 23547532 www.grupocmas.wordpress.com BESTS is a mailing list for researchers working at the intersection of STS and the built environment. It is a forum for discussion and a platform to circulate information about conferences, calls for papers, publications, jobs etc. All list members are welcome to post simply by sending an email to bests[at]jiscmail.ac.uk from the email account with which they are subscribed. To subscribe, send the command "SUBSCRIBE BESTS forename surname" to LISTSERV[at]jiscmail.ac.uk; to unsubscribe, send the command "UNSUBSCRIBE BESTS". Subscription management is also possible on www.jiscmail.ac.uk/bests. To reach the list managers (Ralf Brand & Andy Karvonen) personally, write to BESTS-request[at]jiscmail.ac.uk.