- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
- Telephone
- 0104080000
- bier@essb.eur.nl
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Jess Bier (1980) is an assistant professor of urban sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Dr. Bier is a social theorist who engages with the social and political impacts of scientific and technical knowledge. Her first book, Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine, analyzes how segregated landscapes have shaped digital cartography in Jerusalem and the West Bank since 1967.
The full text of Dr. Bier’s publications can be downloaded from www.jessbier.org/publications. Her work is situated at the confluence of Science and Technology Studies (STS), critical geography, and postcolonial theory.
Dr. Bier is the recipient of a 2018 EUR Fellowship for for her current project, "Data Streams and Cargo Flows: The Labor Consequences of the Datafication of Logistics" on the role of data in the automation of shipping in the Port of Rotterdam. In the past, her work has also been funded in part by the Dutch National Research School for Science, Technology, and Modern Culture (WTMC).
Dr. Bier's dissertation received the 2016 Maastricht University dissertation prize, awarded to the best dissertation submitted to the university during the previous two years, from among all disciplines except medicine and the life sciences. In 2013, a chapter of her dissertation received a prize from the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA).
From 2013-16, Dr. Bier was a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC-Funded Monitoring Modernity research project headed by Willem Schinkel, where she analyzed the changing spatialities of efforts to monitor international financial flows during the ongoing financial crisis.
- J.L. Bier (2017). Palestinian State Maps and Imperial Technologies of Staying Put. Public Culture, 29 (1), 53-78. doi: 10.1215/08992363-3644397
- J.L. Bier (2017). Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
- J.L. Bier & W. Schinkel (2016). Building Better Ecological Machines: Complexity Theory and Alternative Economic Models. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2, 266-293. doi: 10.17351/ests2016.72
- J.L. Bier (2017). Palestinian State Maps and Imperial Technologies of Staying Put. Public Culture, 29 (1), 53-78. doi: 10.1215/08992363-3644397
- J.L. Bier (2017). Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
- J.L. Bier & W. Schinkel (2016). Building Better Ecological Machines: Complexity Theory and Alternative Economic Models. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2, 266-293. doi: 10.17351/ests2016.72
- R. van Reekum, M. van den Berg, I. van Oorschot, W. Schinkel, J.L. Bier & S. Bracke (2020). Zonder plan geen serieus universitair onderwijs in september. Science Guide. [go to publisher's site]
- W. Schinkel, M. van den Berg, S. Bracke, I. van Oorschot, R. van Reekum & J.L. Bier (2020). Academici zijn geen ‘vitale beroepsgroep’. Science Guide. [go to publisher's site]
- J.L. Bier (2020). It’s a Small, Small, Small World: The Icesave Dispute and Global Orders of Difference. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 38 (7-8), 1291-1307. doi: 10.1177/2399654420917410 [go to publisher's site]
- F. Lee, J.L. Bier, J. Christensen, L. Engelmann, C.F. Helgesson & R. Williams (2019). Algorithms as Folding: Reframing the Analytical Focus. 6(2): 1-12. Big Data & Society, 6 (9), 1-12.
- J.L. Bier (2018). Bodily Circulation and the Measure of a Life: Forensic Identification and Valuation after the Titanic Disaster. Social Studies of Science, 48 (5), 1-28.
- J.L. Bier (2017). Palestinian State Maps and Imperial Technologies of Staying Put. Public Culture, 29 (1), 53-78. doi: 10.1215/08992363-3644397
- J.L. Bier (2016). Pillaged Books and Plundered Maps: Pirates and the Boundaries of Language. Krisis, tijdschrift voor actuele filosofie, 1-19.
- J.L. Bier & W. Schinkel (2016). Building Better Ecological Machines: Complexity Theory and Alternative Economic Models. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2, 266-293. doi: 10.17351/ests2016.72
- S. Wyatt, J.L. Bier, A. Harris & B. Van Heur (2013). Participatory Knowledge Production 2.0: Critical views and experiences. Information, Communication and Society (print), 16 (2), 153-159. doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2012.746382
- J.L. Bier (2016). Young Astronauts Club. Nautilus Magazine: Spark of Science. Nautilus.
- J.L. Bier (2017). Quantification and Classification: The Politics of Counting and Sorting. In H. van Lente, T.E. Swierstra, S.M.E. Wyatt & R. Zeiss (Eds.), Wegwijs in STS: Knowing your Way in STS (pp. 121-126). Maastricht: Maastricht University Science, Technology and Society Studies (MUSTS)
- J.L. Bier (2019). Mapping the Archive for Arab American Women’s Labor in the New York Metropolitan Area. In S. Joseph (Ed.), Arab American Women. Syracuse, New York: Syracue University Press
- J.L. Bier (2015). Images as Maps. In M. Monmonier (Ed.), The History of Cartography, Volume 6: Cartography in the Twentieth Century (pp. 804-805). Chicago: University of Chicago Press [go to publisher's site]
- J.L. Bier (2018). The Simple Societies of Complex Models. (nieuwsbrief). e-Flux.
- J.L. Bier (2018). Aerial Photography without the Airplane. (blog).
- J.L. Bier (2018). The tech bias: why Silicon Valley needs social theory. (nieuwsbrief). (available: 14 Feb 2018).
- J.L. Bier (2017). Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
- J.L. Bier & W. Schinkel (2017). Locating Global Value: National Statistical Infrastructures and Multinational Banks. In Bank for International Settlements (BIS) (Ed.), Irving Fisher Committee (IFC) Bulletins: Statistical Implications of the New Financial Landscape. Basel: Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
- J.L. Bier (2018-2018). Program Organizing Committe, International Conference, New Orleans, 4-7 September 2019. Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).
- J.L. Bier (2017-2017). Member. National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (USA).
- J.L. Bier (2017-2017). Affiliate Member. Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS), University of Amsterdam.
- M. Dap, J.L. Bier & F. Ntow (Episode 31) (2020, jun 04). Police Violence and Systemic Racism. [televisie-uitzending]. In Erasmus TV. Rotterdam: Erasmus University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=288&v=O9QmPaUD7C0
- J.L. Bier (2014, april 3). Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Segregated Landscapes Shape Scientic Knowledge. Maastricht University (Maastricht: Datawyse | Universitaire Pers Maastricht) Prom./coprom.: S. Wyatt.
- J.L. Bier (2017). Maastricht University Dissertation Prize. Dies Natalis: Maastricht. Overig.
- J.L. Bier (2013). PhD Paper Prize, Middle East Section (MES), American Anthropological Association (AAA). Overig.
3.4C Sociology of the Globe
- Title
- 3.4C Sociology of the Globe
- Year
- 2020
4.2 Infrastructures of Power
- Title
- 4.2 Infrastructures of Power
- Year
- 2020
Assistant Professor
- University
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- School
- Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Department
- Department of Public Administration and Sociology/ Sociology
- Country
- The Netherlands
- Telephone
- 0104080000