Keyword: Environmentaljustice
- contributionSimon Turner, Michelle Murphy, Lesley J. F. Green
Environmental Markers to Chemical Violence
How do we connect pollutant markers demarcating the Anthropocene with the exploitative and unequal anthropogenic-economic-industrial systems that created them?
Mapping, Consensus Building, Experiment, Engagement, Pollution, Toxicity, Violence, Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice, Settler Colonialism
- contributionRavi Agarwal
It's Not So Bad to be Wild, Wilful and Peaceful
Conservation biologist and author Neha Sinha addresses animal sentience, arguing that understanding the wilful animal is a means of understanding our own place in the world.
Reflection, Engagement, Conversation, Species, Ecology, Environmental Justice, Biodiversity, Human-environment relations, Human-animal relations, Agency
- projectRavi Agarwal
Literature and Conversations: State of Nature 2022
Curator of literature Ranjit Hoskote conceptualised a program of conversations with prominent writers, poets, and essayists for State of Nature: New Natures, 2022.
Communicating, Engagement, Conversation, Species, Human-environment relations, Environmental Justice, Scale, Knowledge production, Biodiversity, Agency, Human-animal relations
- projectRavi Agarwal
Dialogues: State of Nature 2022
A three-day conference bringing together perspectives and frameworks representative of current contemporary thought in ecopoetics, habitat conservation, and social justice.
Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Climate change, Ecology, Environmental Justice, Biodiversity
- projectRavi Agarwal
Anthropocene Mumbai 2018–
Since 2018, the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai, has focused on the key questions surrounding ecology.
Storytelling, Intervention, Engagement, Modeling, Conversation, Climate change, Ecology, Policy, Environmental Justice, Species, Human-environment relations
- project
Mississippi River Open School for Kinship and Social Exchange 2022–
An expansive educational and research collaboration through the formation of five river hubs spanning the Mississippi River’s headwaters to the Gulf.
Engagement, Teaching, Storytelling, Sensing, Conversation, Communicating, Water, Settler Colonialism, Environmental Justice, Race, Extraction
- projectFernando Silva e Silva, Grupo de Pesquisa em Ecologia das Práticas
Cosmic Conversations 2022
Conversations on the question of habitability and the task of keeping the Earth hospitable.
Conversation, Reflection, Care, Species, Ecology, Scale, Environmental Justice
- projectFernando Silva e Silva, Grupo de Pesquisa em Ecologia das Práticas
Cosmic Conversations 2020
Six Brazilian researchers from different areas talk about ways of approaching the brutal effects of climate change.
Conversation, Reflection, Climate change, Ecology, Agriculture, Species, Environmental Justice, Settler Colonialism
- contributionRavi Agarwal
Exhibition: New Natures
Part of State of Nature 2022, the exhibition New Natures: A Terrible Beauty is Born was a proposition to rethink the world as we know it today.
Storytelling, Engagement, Modeling, Ecology, Environmental Justice, Technosphere, Species, Human-environment relations, Climate change
- contributionMyriel Milićević
The Shape of a River: Mississippi
Publication of processes and projects that build on and continue from six case studies of the Mississippi. An Anthropocene River project by design students at the University of Applied Sciences, Potsdam.
Conversation, Engagement, Case Study, Field Work, Environmental Justice
- contributionKate Brown
The Skeletal Remains of the Nuclear Anthropocene
Comparing the approaches to radioactive fallout in the US and USSR, Kate Brown retraces the ways in which radio biologists and ecologists assessed and contorted radioactive contamination to study the resilience of ecosystems and human bodies.
Case Study, Disaster, Radioactivity, Ecology, Waste, Environmental Justice, Degradation
- contributionAndrea Westermann
Against the Aestheticization of Technofossils
Plastic represents a particularly alluring material legacy in the rock record—but as Andrea Westermann shows, for its health and environmental hazards, consumerism and the exploitation of migrant labor, plastic is a deeply troubling material.
Storytelling, Aesthetics, Commodities, Critical materials, Deep time, Pollution, Migration, Environmental Justice
- contributionJulia Adeney Thomas
Modern Political Hopes as Immaterial Markers of the Anthropocene
Constellating three documents that mark a story of changing hopes for a better future, historian Julia Adeney Thomas advocates to recognize the immaterial power of ideas that gave birth to the Anthropocene.
Intervention, Reflection, Capitalism, Disaster, Environmental Justice, Future, Ethics, Imaginary, Modernity, History
- contributionSebastián Ureta
Tailings and the Onset of a Chilean Anthropocene
Sebastián Ureta gives a thick description of Anthropocene landscapes where vast, stratified dumps of chemical residues that largely outlive their creators.
Mapping, Critical materials, Deep time, Degradation, Disaster, Environmental Justice, Mining, Policy, Waste
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Landscapes of Injustice
Workshop by Environmental Humanities South, University of Cape Town, South Africa, that will help participants develop a critical methodology that combines critical zone theory and ecofeminism.
Conversation, Engagement, Teaching, Environmental Justice
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Landscapes of Injustice
Workshop by Environmental Humanities South, University of Cape Town, South Africa, that will help participants develop a critical methodology that combines critical zone theory and ecofeminism.
Conversation, Engagement, Teaching, Environmental Justice
- contributionRavi Agarwal
The Art of Climate Emergency
For the third keynote lecture of the State of Nature: Dialogues conference, art historian and cultural critic TJ Demos reflects on the art of climate emergency.
Reflection, Intervention, Engagement, Extraction, Race, Climate change, Migration, Environmental Justice, Capitalism
- contributionNikiwe Solomon, Adrian Van Wyk
Consensus Building: The Clash between Governance and Everyday Life
From the context of the Kuils River near Cape Town, South Africa, Nikiwe Solomon and Adrian Van Wyk reckon with the question—whose knowledge really matters?
Consensus Building, Conversation, Engagement, Water, Environmental Justice, Human-environment relations, Capitalism, Governance, Urbanism
- contributionJason Ludwig, Tim Schütz
An Archival Epoch?
How can archival production be a catalyst for urgently needed action? Researchers Jason Ludwig and Tim Schütz reflect on networks of solidarity via the Formosa Plastics Archive.
Archiving, Case Study, Capitalism, Knowledge infrastructure, Governance, Pollution, Environmental Justice
- contributionJoe Underhill
On Translation and Agency on an Anastomosed River
Joe Underhill reflects on the political utility of the language used in academia and the public sphere, and how to translate deeper understandings of the Anthropocene.
Storytelling, Communicating, Conversation, Field Work, Water, Climate change, Environmental Justice, Local knowledge, Settler Colonialism
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Backward River Festival
Organized by Freshwater Lab at the University of Illinois Chicago, this event that will uplift the voices of those whose lives and communities have been disrupted as private interests manipulate the Chicago River, and reimagines the river’s future.
Conversation, Engagement, Water, Environmental Justice
- contributionJohn Kim, Abbéy Odunlami
Collaborative Social Formats
To what end should activism and institutionally backed projects cooperate? Contributors Kim and Odunlami recap on their experiences in the years 2019 and 2020.
Consensus Building, Conversation, Engagement, Race, Environmental Justice, Inequality
- contributionJennifer Colten, Ryan Griffis, Sarah Kanouse
In a Landscape, Over Time
Far from belonging to a dated genre, landscapes can prompt artists to engage with the embodied, experiential and political qualities of space.
Conversation, Field Work, Landscape, Environmental Justice
- contributionJeremy Bolen, Beate Geissler, Abbéy Odunlami, Oliver Sann
Blind Spots
Research and artistic practice depend on exchange and openness to other perspectives. But how can artists and researchers approach blind spots in practice?
Conversation, Field Work, Ethics, Environmental Justice, Knowledge production
- contributionTemporary continent.
Superfunds and Community Funds
Audio reflections on the river that flows south toward Natchez and New Orleans, stirring up relations between chemistry and commodity, labor and industry, plantation and plantationocene.
Field Work, Education, Economy, Environmental Justice, Equality, History, Toxics
- contributionTemporary continent.
Seeding Sovereignty
A collage of recorded conversations about the systems of structural racism and land-use brought about by settler colonialism in the Midwest.
Field Work, Conversation, Agriculture, Indigenous Rights, Settler Colonialism, Economy, Environmental Justice, Inequality, Future, Colonialism, Whiteness
- contributionFawad Durrani, Abbéy Odunlami
#4: Migration from the Outside Looking In
In Germany, being labelled as a person with a “migration background” comes with various forms of discrimination. What do people who have lived this have to say about it?
Conversation, Migration, Inequality, Representation, Policy, Environmental Justice, Race
- contributionAbbéy Odunlami, Roberto Forin, Diana Ihring, Sabine Minninger
#3: Migration from the Perspective of Data and Evidence-Based Policy
Abbéy Odunlami and guests discuss climate-induced migration and displacement as pressing issues on the bumpy road towards coherent climate and migration policies in the EU.
Conversation, Migration, Inequality, Environmental Justice, Data, Policy, Technosphere
- contributionAbbéy Odunlami, Clementine Ewokolo Burnley, Isaiah Lopaz
#2: “Refugees Welcome”: The Commodification of Political Status and Perspectives from the Cultural Industry
What’s left of “refugees welcome”, the slogan popularized in Europe in 2015? What comes from speaking out in solidarity while having very limited power to achieve political change?
Conversation, Migration, Inequality, Environmental Justice, Policy, Representation
- contributionAbbéy Odunlami
#1 Introduction to Season 2: Migration–Perspectives on Displacement in the Anthropocene
Introduction to the themes of Season 2 of the Field Station 5 podcast, which began during the 2019 project Mississippi. An Anthropocene River.
Conversation, Migration, Inequality, Representation, Policy, Race, Environmental Justice
- projectAbbéy Odunlami
Broadcasting Live from... Field Station 5 (Season 02)
Transmitting from Berlin, Germany, season 2 of Abbéy Odunlami’s podcast features conversations on Europe’s role in the age of migration which is also the age of the Anthropocene.
Conversation, Migration, Inequality, Environmental Justice, Data, Policy, Debate
- contributionJeffrey Treffinger, John Koeferl
Uncalculated Risk
A brief history of New Orleans’ industrial canal and the risk to life posed by obsolete ideas in an era of planetary change.
Case Study, Engagement, Intervention, Water, Engineering, Environmental Justice, Risk, Local knowledge, Disaster
- projectDerek Hoeferlin, Amber Ginsburg, Claire Pentecost, Kayla Anderson, Sara Black, Sarah Lewison, Beate Geissler, Oliver Sann, Michael Swierz, Monica Moses Haller, Jeremy Bolen, Brian Holmes, Brian Kirkbride, Margarida Mendes, John Kim, Tia-Simone Gardner, Andrea Carlson, Jenny Schmid, Marlena Novak, Jay Alan Yim, Joslyn Willauer, Isabelle Carbonell, Jennifer Colten, Abbéy Odunlami, Anna van Voorhis, Monique Verdin, Sarah Kanouse, Ryan Griffis, Joe Underhill, Corinne Teed, Heather Parrish
The Current: Mississippi. An Anthropocene River
The installation The Current presented field studies by artists, scholars, and activists who were involved in the AC project Mississippi. An Anthropocene River.
Archiving, Case Study, Communicating, Conversation, Field Study, Film, Mapping, Sensing, Storytelling, Sound, Water, Carbon, Care, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Rights, Extraction, Race, Infrastructure
- contributionGilly Karjevsky, Rosario Talevi, Denise Frazier, Rebecca Snedeker, Spółdzielnia Krzak / Krzak Collective, Jason Ludwig, Tim Schütz
Knowing Together
How can we build communities that share knowledge about climate issues, both locally and at the planetary-scale?
Case Study, Conversation, Agriculture, Climate change, Environmental Justice, Race
- contributionSadie Luetmer
Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta short film
Critical insights from and impressions of the Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta, which took place in New Orleans in November 2019.
Conversation, Engagement, Field Work, Storytelling, Reflection, Anthropos, Capitalism, Carbon, Commodities, Climate change, Ecology, Environmental Justice, Race, Water
- contributionScott Gabriel Knowles, Fallon Samuels Aidoo, Christopher Oliver, Myung Ae Choi
Risk & Equity in the Louisiana Anthropocene
On the different manifestations and impacts of the Louisiana Anthropocene, which have been lent somber new resonance in 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Conversation, Engagement, Field Work, Film, Reflection, Sensing, Affect, Agency, Care, Climate change, Carbon, Environmental Justice, Disaster, Extraction, Pollution, Race, Local knowledge
- contributionFritz Habekuß
A River Indicts
If a corporation can have rights, then why not the Mississippi River?
Field Study, Reflection, Field Work, Engagement, Agency, Agriculture, Anthropos, Commodities, Environmental Justice, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Toxicity
- contributionSarah Lewison
Measuring Loss
In response to the complicated entanglements of property claims in the Mississippi Delta, Sarah Lewison advocates for witnessing injustice as a way of preparing for repair.
Conversation, Engagement, Reflection, Field Study, Sensing, Storytelling, Teaching, Agency, Architecture, Commodities, Capitalism, Environmental Justice, Extraction, History, Indigenous Rights, Inequality, Race, Slavery
- contributionJason Ludwig
“Planting a Seed is a Revolutionary Act"
How a “blues epistemology” can establish the critical historical consciousness crucial for determining more just futures in the Anthropocene.
Engagement, Teaching, Field Work, Conversation, Engagement, History, Environmental Justice, Extraction, Inequality, Race, Slavery, Violence
- contributionTemporary continent., Lital Khaikin
Acquiring and Optimizing Sustainable Relationships for Good Solid Cash Flow Streams. Or, Speaking with Plants.
On the connections between language and landscape, as well the disconnections that can occur when the former is used to frame intentions towards the latter.
Reflection, Conversation, Care, Capitalism, Environmental Justice, Human-environment relations
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Museu da Luz, Luz Mourão, Portugal
Field Study, Environmental Justice, Migration, Agriculture
- contributionSadie Luetmer
Seminar Film: Exhaustion and Imagination
This short film offers insights into the perspectives and methods of the seminar on “Exhaustion and Imagination,” which took place within the framework of the Anthropocene River Campus, 2019.
Field Work, Imaginary, Time, Degradation, Environmental Justice
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Mapping, Sensing, Data, Environmental Justice, Air
- Field Noteunderhil
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Norco, Louisiana, USA
Field Work, Monitoring, Capitalism, Carbon, Energy, Pollution, Race, Environmental Justice, Inequality, Slavery, Industrialization, Risk, Oil, refinery, Time, Toxics
- Field Notes.kanouse
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Intervention, Conversation, Agency, Care, Deep time, Evolution, Life, Resilience, Race, Environmental Justice, Cosmologies, Women, Maternal deep time
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Mapping, Monitoring, Environmental Justice, Data, Air
- Field Noteemily.sekine
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Storytelling, Reflection, Field Work, Intervention, Engagement, Conversation, Capitalism, Carbon, Care, Degradation, Energy, Engagement, Future, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice, Extraction, Oil, Expanded field, Confluence
- contributionTemporary continent., Aaron Richmond
Fanning Comfort
A conversation on how the object of the punkah fan speaks to histories of both subjugation and liberation, and how we might relate such narratives to contemporary climate injustice.
Conversation, Case Study, Intervention, Plantation, Slavery, Environmental Justice, Human-environment relations, Inequality
- Field Noteemily.sekine
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Genoa, Wisconsin, USA
Reflection, Field Work, Architecture, Disaster, Economy, Flood, Environmental Justice, Inequality, Risk
- Field Notetanadim
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Sauget, Illinois, USA
Data, Degradation, Disaster, Governance, Environmental Justice, Media
- contributionTemporary continent., Louise Carver
When Doves Cry: Project Sweetie Pie
Temporary continent. on how the windows of “opportunity” that speculation focused on Minneapolis’ riverside has brought forth can also be understood as a source of hope in terms of environmental justice.
Reflection, Storytelling, Knowledge production, Ecology, Environmental Justice, Engagement
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Mapping, Sensing, Big data, Environmental Justice, Media, Pollution, Air, Geochemistry
- contributionAbbéy Odunlami, Jared Richardson
#4 Black Ecologies: Historicization & Futures
On the spatial politics of plantation economies and the connection between faith and environmentalism. Episode 4 available now!
Conversation, Reflection, Engagement, Storytelling, Case Study, Equality, Environmental Justice, Urbanism, Race, Local knowledge
- contributionAbbéy Odunlami, Jared Richardson
#2 Troubling Ecology: Black Feminist Interventions in Environmentalism
Talk with Dr. Chelsea Frazier about the importance of Black feminism’s political and artistic engagements with environmentalism. Episode 2 available now!
Conversation, Engagement, Reflection, Storytelling, Sound, Case Study, Equality, Environmental Justice, Urbanism, Race, Local knowledge, Spatial
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Field Station 5 | Memphis: The River City
Episode 5 of the podcast series on the Mississippi Delta
Sound, Conversation, Storytelling, Case Study, Water, Spatial, Urbanism, Equality, Economy, Capitalism, Local knowledge, Environmental Justice, Race
- event
Field Station 5 | Black Ecologies: historicization & futures
Episode 4 of the podcast series on the Mississippi Delta
Sound, Conversation, Storytelling, Case Study, Water, Spatial, Urbanism, Equality, Economy, Capitalism, Local knowledge, Environmental Justice, Race
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Field Station 5 | Perils of Privatization in NOLA
Episode 3 of the podcast series on the Mississippi Delta
Sound, Conversation, Storytelling, Case Study, Water, Spatial, Urbanism, Equality, Economy, Capitalism, Local knowledge, Environmental Justice, Race
- event
Field Station 5 | Troubling Ecology: Black Feminist Interventions in Environmentalism
Episode 2 of the podcast series on the Mississippi Delta
Sound, Conversation, Storytelling, Case Study, Spatial, Urbanism, Equality, Capitalism, Local knowledge, Environmental Justice, Race, Care
- contributionTia-Simone Gardner
There’s Something in the Water
This text is excerpted from an ongoing project looking at the relationship between Blackness and the Mississippi River.
Film, Experiment, Race, Environmental Justice, Epistemology, Knowledge infrastructure
- projectMargarida Mendes
Sounding the Mississippi
Listening to the stories and sounds that resonate around the Mississippi can show how ecosystems exist within multiple crisscrossing interrelations.
Sound, Case Study, Field Work, Experiment, Storytelling, Water, Violence, Toxicity, Environmental Justice, Ecology, Scale, Capitalism, Technosphere
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Field Station 1 | Sediment, Settlement, Sentiment: The Machinic River
Boat and walking tours, sound installations, workshops, panel discussions and film screenings around the Twin Cities region explore the Mississippi River as a space of intervention and experimentation.
Case Study, Storytelling, Reflection, Sound, Film, Infrastructure, Sedimentation, Water, History, Energy, Engineering, Aesthetics, Mechanosphere, Settler Colonialism, Inequality, Technosphere, Environmental Justice
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Field Station 2 | Toward Ecological Sovereignty
The seminar concludes in Saukenuk. The environmental transformations wrought by settlement have not exterminated Indigenous political and ecological practices, which have persisted and adapted to what Kyle Powys White calls the “post-apocalyptic conditions of the present.”
Case Study, Reflection, Storytelling, History, Local knowledge, Agriculture, Agency, Ecology, Human-environment relations, Inequality, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice
- event
Field Station 2 | Extractive Infrastructures and Imaginaries
The fourth day of the seminar travels from Wisconsin to Illinois to examine the interplay of displacement, immigration, and engineering in producing the landscapes of extractive agriculture celebrated in the racialized mythology of the American “heartland.”
Case Study, Storytelling, Energy, Commodities, Infrastructure, Mining, Imaginary, Carbon, Pollution, Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice
- projectMonica Moses Haller, Monique Verdin, Matt Rahaim, Adam Crosson, Kristine L. DeLong, Matt Sakakeeny, Simon Turner, Joshua Lewis, Albertine Kimble
Seminar: Exhaustion and Imagination
Focusing on the limits—and opportunities—exhaustion engenders, in this seminar the difficulties of being out of energy and out of ideas will be related to the challenges posed by the Anthropocene.
Case Study, Teaching, Future, Imaginary, Time, Degradation, Affect, Ethics, Epistemology, Engagement, Extinction, Environmental Justice, Species, Speculative
- projectScott Gabriel Knowles, Michael Orr, Marylee Orr, Myung Ae Choi, Fallon Samuels Aidoo, Christopher Oliver, Buhm Soon Park, Wilma Subra, Louisiana Landmarks Society (LLS), Jeffrey Treffinger, Wendi Moore O'Neal, Daneeta Loretta Jackson
Seminar: Risk/Equity
The articulation of risk assessment and management as being at the heart of environmental justice is the focus of this seminar, which explores the paired concepts of risk and equity through lived experiences.
Case Study, Teaching, Disaster, Ethics, Capitalism, Care, Participatory governance, Violence, Environmental Justice, Risk, Inequality
- projectMorgan Adamson, Ravi Agarwal, Bruce Braun, Shana M. griffin, Sarah Lewison, Pointe-Au-Chien Indian Tribe, Grace Treffinger, Geneva Lebouf
Seminar: Claims/Property
This seminar engages the complicated entanglements of property claims that cut across the social, racial, and ecological landscapes of the Mississippi Delta, as they pertain to the Anthropocene.
Case Study, Teaching, Agency, History, Local knowledge, Agriculture, Commodities, Capitalism, Violence, Race, Settler Colonialism, Environmental Justice
- projectScott Gabriel Knowles, Kim Fortun, Tim Schütz, Jason Ludwig
New Orleans Anthropocene Field Campus
The New Orleans Anthropocene Field Campus investigates site-specific processes of environmental change and injustice and develops tactics for interdisciplinary engagement with the Anthropocene.
Field Study, Teaching, Education, Knowledge infrastructure, Toxicity, Environmental Justice
- projectAbbéy Odunlami, Jared Richardson
Broadcasting Live from… Field Station 5
A narrative-based podcast that discusses how geography determines many people’s relationship to resources, land, and wellbeing.
Storytelling, Sound, Case Study, Water, Spatial, Urbanism, Equality, Economy, Capitalism, Local knowledge, Environmental Justice, Race
- projectMaya Kóvskaya, Montana Torrey, Ellie Irons
Natchez: Etiologies of Anthropocenic Emergence
Natchez rests at the intersection of entangled violence of white supremacism and human exceptionalism as they play out on the landscape.
Storytelling, Field Study, History, Violence, Economy, Agriculture, Equality, Plantation, Slavery, Race, Environmental Justice
- projectJared Richardson, Abbéy Odunlami, Maya Kóvskaya, Tamara Becerra Valdez, Montana Torrey, Hannah Schaedler, Ellie Irons
Field Station 5: Place, Space & Relations of Belongings
The Upper Delta region is shaped by environmental forces of evolving multiracial identities and inherently global economic forces. Field Station 5 explores the spatial dynamics which formed the contemporary identity of this region.
Field Study, Field Work, Intervention, Storytelling, Commodities, Capitalism, Spatial, History, Economy, Embodiment, Knowledge infrastructure, Race, Violence, Plantation, Environmental Justice
- projectJennifer Colten, Matthew Fluharty, Derek Hoeferlin, Gavin Kroeber, James McAnally, Lynn Peemoeller, Treasure Shields Redmond, Jesse Vogler, Natalie Mueller
Field Station 3: Anthropocene Vernacular
In the St. Louis region, memories and meanings of millennia of settlement collide. Anthropocene Vernacular investigates how everyday culture has been cultivated in the midst of social, environmental, economic crises.
Field Study, Field Work, Storytelling, Water, Infrastructure, Urbanism, Deep time, Time, History, Anthropology, Local knowledge, Capitalism, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Agriculture, Epistemology, Environmental Justice, Industrialization
- projectTia-Simone Gardner, John Kim, Andrea Carlson, Jenny Schmid
An Aesthetics of Displacement
On dams, micro worlds and the end of humanity—four short films inspired by the Headwaters field station.
Storytelling, Aesthetics, Water, Human-environment relations, Environmental Justice, Film
- projectMorgan Adamson, Mark Borrello, Bruce Braun, Andrea Carlson, Jen Caruso, Jodi Enos-Berlage, Tia-Simone Gardner, Monica Moses Haller, Jane Hawley, Simi Kang, Anya Kaplan-Seem, John Kim, Boris Oicherman, Roopali Phadke, Max Ritts, Daniela Sandler, Jenny Schmid, Joe Underhill, Michael Winikoff, Simona Zappas
Field Station 1: Sediment, Settlement, Sentiment
The stretch of the Mississippi between Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa is marked both by its “natural” and “anthropogenic” origin.
Case Study, Field Work, Field Study, Storytelling, Sensing, Sedimentation, Local knowledge, Capitalism, Water, Engineering, Infrastructure, Aesthetics, Governance, Settler Colonialism, Violence, Environmental Justice
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Field Station 2 | Restoring the Land
Day two of Over the Levee, Under the Plow takes place at the Kickapoo Valley Reserve. Examining Native and non-Native practices of conservation, this full day of seminars will work through the multivalent meanings of the term “restoration”.
Case Study, Storytelling, Reflection, History, Local knowledge, Agriculture, Landscape, Water, Resilience, Flood, Engineering, Metabolism, Biodiversity, Settler Colonialism, Glaciation, Environmental Justice
- projectNicholas Brown, Ryan Griffis, Sarah Kanouse
Over the Levee, Under the Plow
A traveling seminar on the relations between settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and environmental concerns in the Upper Midwest territory.
Case Study, Field Study, Storytelling, History, Agriculture, Violence, Capitalism, Landscape, Settler Colonialism, Race, Agency, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Rights
- projectNicholas Brown, Ryan Griffis, Sarah Kanouse
Field Station 2: Anthropocene Drift
What is the relation between large-scale agriculture and biome change? An examination of the infrastructure of the monocrop industry in the Midwestern United States.
Field Study, Field Work, Agriculture, Landscape, Water, Capitalism, Commodities, Anthropology, Local knowledge, Ecology, History, Violence, Sustainability, Topography, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice
- projectDavide Scarso, Elizabeth Johnson, Rita Natálio
Seminar: Repoliticizing the Anthropocene
Exploring the tensions between the need for “politicizing nature” and the always-impending risk of “naturalizing politics.”
Agency, Environmental Justice, Engagement, Governance
- contributionOliver Sann, Ellie Tse, Julia Sharpe, Shawn Michelle Smith, Viviana de la Rosa, Jenny Magnus, Evan Graham, Guanyu Xu
In Search of Freedom in the Anthropocene
The arrival of the Anthropocene coincides with the era of political demands for “universal freedom,” as defined by Western philosophers. But whose freedom is this?
Conversation, Teaching, Reflection, Deep time, Modernity, Environmental Justice
- contributionLois Epstein, Subhankar Banerjee
The Fight for Alaska's Arctic Has Just Begun
Activist and artist Subhankar Banerjee and engineer Lois Epstein depict the threatening environmental impact of an extractivist technosphere.
Case Study, Environmental Justice, Technosphere
- contributionSheila Jasanoff
Anthropocene Lecture - Sheila Jasanoff
The human imprint: Nature, time, and law in the Anthropocene
Human-environment relations, Environmental Justice
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Global Environment and Democracy
This colloquium and workshop will rethink how to define the democracy in the Anthropocene and seek a new way to the future-planning which overcomes this “Anthropocenic” difficulty.
Sensing, Environmental Justice, Future
- projectSophia Roosth, Arren Bar-Even, Luis Campos, Helena Shomar, knowbotiq, Fred Hystère, Angi Nend, Claudia de Serpa Soares, Nicolas Buzzi, Pablo Alarcón
Seeds
The technological dissolution between internal and external conditions for life is manifest in the way seeds are handled. A series of conversations explores the practices and ideologies behind the collapse of modification and mutation. A subsequent performance of micro-processions will conjure historical and current moments of the agro-industrial technosphere.
Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Sensing, Storytelling, Teaching, Agriculture, Biosphere, Degradation, Calculation, Ecology, Environmental Justice, Extraction, Human-environment relations, Embodiment, Landscape, Life, Plantation, Water, Waste, Toxicity, Pollution
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Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia 2017
A collaborative campus hosted by Drexel University, Philadelphia, from Oct 22–26, 2017.
Reflection, Film, Case Study, Field Study, Environmental Justice, Disaster, Epistemology, History, Human-environment relations, Technoscience, Infrastructure, Scenario, Climate change
- contributionLaleh Khalili
1333AD, Port of Aden, Yemen
Following the gravestone of a young Jewish woman used as the ballast for a ship, Laleh Khalili maps the infrastructure of imperialism and its relation to logistics to create an image of the technosphere as it expands geographically along its many ports.
Film, Technosphere, Infrastructure, Environmental Justice
- projectLawrence Abu Hamdan, Keith Breckenridge, Brian Holmes, Susan Schuppli, Melanie Gilligan
Truth Measures
Data, evidence, truth—these grades of the factual form an intricate reference system in which current social and juridical knowledge is established and maintained. How is factual knowledge constituted within and through the technosphere? The evening examines how the concept of legal truth and truth finding is bound to the technical production of certainty.
Conversation, Intervention, Reflection, Storytelling, Teaching, Adaptation, Complexity, Computation, Ethics, Governance, Knowledge infrastructure, Infrastructure, Representation, Model, Scale, Environmental Justice, Waste, Violence
