Malka Older
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Mail code: 6002Campus: Tempe
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Malka Older is a writer, aid worker, and sociologist. She is the Executive Director of Global Voices, a community of writers, editors, and translators providing community journalism from all over the world and advocating for indigenous and minority languages, media literacy, digital rights, and online freedom of expression. Her science-fiction political thriller Infomocracy was named among the best books of 2016 by Kirkus, the Washington Post, and Book Riot; with sequels, it was a finalist for a Hugo award. The Mimicking of Known Successes, a murder mystery set on Jupiter, was on four best of 2023 lists and was a finalist for the Nebula, Hugo, Locus, and Ignyte awards for Best Novella. The sequel, The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles, was named one of the best science-fiction books of 2024 by Esquire, and the third book in the series, The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses, comes out in June 2025. She is a Faculty Associate at Arizona State University, where she teaches on predictive fictions. Her opinions can be found in The New York Times, The Nation, and Foreign Policy, among other places.
Finch, M., Older, M., Mahon, M. et al. Climate action and the vantage point of imagined futures: a scenario-based conversation. npj Clim. Action 3, 45 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44168-024-00123-3
Finch, Matthew, Malka Older, Carissa Véliz, and Annina Lux. “The Art of Strategic Conversation: Surveillance, AI, and the IMAJINE Scenarios” Surveillance & Society Vol. 21 No. 3 (2023): AI & Surveillance
Older, Malka, and Scott Gabriel Knowles. “CORONALAG: Time, Place, and Power in Pandemic Year One.” History and Technology 39, no. 2 (2023): 193–207.
Older, Malka. “Temporary Organizations in Disaster Response: Crisis, Temporality, and Governance” American Behavioral Scientist December 27, 2022
Older, Malka. “Obsolete Borders, New Empires” American Quarterly, Special Issue: From Anarchy to Chaos: Generations of Empire Ed. Christopher Lee and Melani McAlister, September 2022
Older, Malka. “What Disaster Response Can Teach Us about Democracy in the Anthropocene” in Holm, M., & Deese, R.S. (Eds.). (2022). How Democracy Survives: Global Challenges in the Anthropocene (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003218586
Older, Malka. “Foreword: Crime and Dislocation: William Gibson’s Modernity” in William Gibson and the Futures of Contemporary Culture, Mitch R. Murray and Mathias Nilges, ed. University of Iowa Press, March 2021
Older, Malka and Zachary Pirtle. “Imagined Systems: How the Speculative Novel Infomocracy Offers a Simulation of the Relationship Between Democracy, Technology, and Society” in Engineering and Philosophy: Reimagining Technology and Social Progress. Zachary Pirtle, David Tomblin, Guru Madhavan, eds. Springer, 2021.
Dissertation: “Organizing after disaster : the (re)emergence of organization within government after Katrina (2005) and the Touhoku Tsunami (2011)“
Older, Malka. “Disaster Response as Secondary Hazard” in Disaster Research and the Second Environmental Crisis: Assessing the Challenges Ahead. Kendra, James, Knowles, Scott G., Wachtendorf, Tricia (Eds.) Springer, 2019.
Older, Malka. “Forward” in Stewart, Daxton R. Media Law Through Science Fiction, Routledge, September 2019.
Older, Malka. “Changing stakes: resilience, reconstruction, and participatory practices after the 2011 Japan tsunami” in Governing for Resilience in Vulnerable Places. Trell, Restemeyer, Bakema, van Hoven (Eds). Routledge, 2017.
Older, Malka. “Securitization of Disaster Response in the United States: The Case of Hurricane Katrina” Revue Interdiciplinaire de Travaux sur les Amériques No. 9, July 2016
Older, Malka. “Concourir dans un régime d’abondance : le cas du tsunami de 2004” Gaëlle Dakan, Trans. Faire la concurrence. Patrick Castel, Léonie Hénaut, Emmanuelle Marchal, Eds. Presses des Mines de Paris, 2016.
Older, Malka. “When Is Too Much Money Worse Than Too Little? Giving, Aid, and Impact After the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004” Recovery from Indian Ocean Tsunami: Ten Years Journey. Rajib Shaw, Ed. Springer, 2014.
Courses
2025 Spring
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FIS 494 | Special Topics |
GTD 598 | Special Topics |
GTD 598 | Special Topics |
2024 Spring
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FIS 494 | Special Topics |
GTD 598 | Special Topics |
GTD 598 | Special Topics |
2023 Spring
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FIS 494 | Special Topics |
GTD 598 | Special Topics |
GTD 598 | Special Topics |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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FIS 494 | Special Topics |
GTD 598 | Special Topics |
GTD 598 | Special Topics |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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GTD 598 | Special Topics |
GTD 598 | Special Topics |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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FIS 494 | Special Topics |
GTD 598 | Special Topics |
GTD 598 | Special Topics |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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GTD 598 | Special Topics |
GTD 598 | Special Topics |