I have extensive experience working with GIS data, both analysis and presentation (see examples here: https://arcg.is/0O1L9m and here: https://arcg.is/1fDbHr). I also have a decent amount of video editing experience. I haven’t worked much with archiving directly, but I did help develop a “learning archive” of resources for members of the school community where I worked in undergrad.
Yes, maybe more a dream. Ethnography that seeks to engage multiple publics needs to develop a rich visual and auditory literacy. Digital multimedia is incredibly powerful tool, but using those tools will require collaborative practices with technicians, artists and digital design specialists who share a commitment to public works and public knowledge and have access to funding that can support these types of collaborative works.
More collaboration across disciplinary boundaries! Ultimately the work that sociologists, anthropologists, and other social scientists (or even researchers in other fields entirely) is not that different—and even when it is, nearly all of our work would benefit from cooperation with people approaching the same problem from different perspectives.
I have worked with the Disaster STS website to archive Santa Ana city council meetings. I used archive bundles to put all relevant documents and recordings in one spot so people can quickly find information on these meetings. Documents in these bundles included news articles, advocacy letters, Ej group policy recommendations, and implemented city policy.I have experience in photography and some knowledge in video editing. These skills have been helpful in documenting events related to the archive.
In many instances throughout my research I have found it difficult to find databases/resources on topics like historical facility information in the city of Santa Ana. By creating an archive that would track all relevant data on these facilities it will be easier for not only me but hopefully others to find information on these facilities. The archive format allows a good opportunity to share data in a concise and detailed manner that is hard to find for the research I have done.
Disaster STS Network (disaster-sts-network.org) The Formosa Plastics Global Record Archive is impressive to me because of how it displays the information to users and its organization. I find this archive very easy to navigate and find information. I think the PECE essay format is used to its fullest potential here and I hope to potentially do something similar in the Santa Ana EiJ archive. I especially like how it is organized in two main sections, places and facilities.
Field work on integration of bioplastics at the municipal level in the United States, exploration of 'open data' and digital citizenship agendas in Virginia, US; local and global variations of "smart city" in the U.S. and China with a co-ethnographer
This was shared by Kim Fortun: https://sites.google.com/asu.edu/kaach/principles?authuser=1 ; the clarity in the justification of this group and the procedures they follow are impressive. Transgression of the academic and activism is compelling.https://mappingcville.com/ A mixture of oral history, archival work, and journalist sleuthing produced the first version of a racial profiling map of Charlottesville, VA.
This project was first concieved as an environmental injustice case study in keeping with the 10-question analytic framework that we used in teaching UCI Anthro 25A, Environmental Injustice; this, in turn, led to the development of the EiJ Global Record Project, partly to create content for next generation teaching about environmental injustice, working through the Beyond Environmental Injustice Research and Teaching Collective. In fall 2022, we recieved funding to be part of an in
There are many and no-doubt ever developing discursive risks in this archive project-- -- As in all projects focused on vulnerable communities, especially those designed to draw out sources and cascading effects of harm, there is a risk of overshadowing community strengths and potentials. -- Given escalating public and government attention to environmental injustice, there is a growing risk of rhetorical and conceptual lock-in -- that this project and archive needs to creatively and proactively work against.
