1 - energy access/rights advocacy; 2 - energy transitions, locally, regionally, and nationally; 3 - public health and climate adaptation, including emergency preparedness; 4 - pandemic impacts research; 5 - urban ethnography Four Substantive Logics: Reimagining energy literacy; Navigating the energy trilemma; Resisting vulnerability;
The Energy Rights Project. We have a whole archive of material on the project... https://energyrights.info/ Plus 7-8 conference presentations, and one journal article under review at Energy Research and Social Science.
Aside from stuff I wrote in my collaboration biography, I came across the following archives this week while in-preparation for another event, the EcoGov Lab-GREEN meeting on June 4, 2022.Lauren Infantino's presentation on environmental justice solutions pathway made me think about what types of qualitative research have been useful for impact-based EJ pathways. During EiJ-A this Winter (2022), our class annotated
The list grows longer every day..
I conducted in-person and “tele-fieldwork” in Austin from October 2019-April of 2021, investigating local efforts to transition the city to renewable energy. I have also co-organized short, ethnographic field campuses in New Orleans (2019) and St. Louis (2018). I was the lead organizer for a field campus in Austin (2020) that was cancelled due to the pandemic.
Over the past 5 years, I have worked extensively in/with the Platform for Experimental Ethnography, using the platform to coordinate, undertake, and publish diverse projects. My first PECE project was STS Across Borders, where I helped lead an investigation into the history of STS-inflected anthropologies in the Anthropology Department at UC Irvine. The following year, I helped design and lead an experimental collaboration in ethnographic visualization called Visualizing Toxic Subjects (and later Visualizing Toxic Places).
My interest in data sharing took a while to… um… let’s say, cultivate. I came to UC Irvine with very static and somewhat traditional ideas about fieldwork, data, and ethnography. Because, to be honest, I was less interested in anything to do with method than I was in the history and future of anthropological theory. I am a big fan of (maybe even a junky for) shattering my contemporary worldview (or what Foucault called “getting free of oneself”), and I had always assumed that consuming and producing theory was the best way to achieve this “shattering” effect.
In my view, the future of anthropology lies less in the filling out of new ethnographic enclosures and more in increasing our capacity to open up what were once unthinkable lines of inquiry.
I usually used bundles to hold together artifacts that pertain to the same event: i.e. agendas, images, printouts, and/or field notes from a single resource planning working group meeting.
