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I am placing links here that I would like to explore further.The Environment & Society Portal is quite a fun and informative website for me. Its virtual exhibitions put together concepts, timelines, audiovisual material, and academic research in a way that allows me to make sense of parallel conversations occurring within a historical moment. For example, the exhibition Famines in Late Nineteenth Century India discusses environmental justice, land ownership, material and conceptual infrastructures, medical science and tropicality, and bureaucratic and citizen responses to tell a story about coloniality and biopolitics. Its Timeline Tool, Map Viewer, and Keyword Explorer help me to see that stories that may seem parochial at first glance are deeply multi-sited and multipolar.  I want to engage further with design/ethnography projects and scholars that accomplish two intertwined tasks: questioning American exceptionalism of the experimental moment and  centering ‘place’ as an analytic: The Hemispheric Institute, Distributed Web of Care, seebytouch, WhereYouAre, the art and science of Polynesian wayfinding, Cartographic projects that visually unsettle ‘place’ by combining politics of knowledge with politics of space: Disputed Territories, Cartographies of the absolute, Mapping back, Decolonial Atlas, LandMark, Mapping Indigenous LA, Counter Map Collection, Anti-eviction Mapping Project, Million Dollar Blocks, This is not an atlas, Counter-cartographies collective, NYC Space/Time Directory, TimeOnLine

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