Talking about the history of the current epoch: the Anthropocene and why we should care about our rivers and streams. We will provide a starting point for a series of conversations about water and the ways in which humans have had an impact as well as ways they can restore, repair, and protect our rivers.
Read MoreIn this episode of In This Climate, I sit down with Gabe Filippelli to discuss the Anthropocene.
Read MoreThese slide decks supplement my presentation to the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute’s Religion, Spirituality, and the Arts program for 9 September 2021.
Read MoreOur lead testing program brings together humanists, scientists, and community members to tackle the challenges of lead in Indianapolis’ soil, dust, and water.
Read MoreKelly, Jason M. “The COVID-19 Oral History Project and the Ethics of Collecting.” Oral History Association of India (7 March 2021).
Read MoreFuture Remains and A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things are valuable, critical contributions to the literature on the Anthropocene—a literature that has become increasingly vast over recent years…
Read MoreAs part of the publicly engaged research project, Museum of the Anthropocene, this map provides a field scan of exhibitions that attempt to make interventions in our understanding of the concept of the Anthropocene.
Read MoreThere are numerous indicators that suggest increasing public interest in the Anthropocene—a concept that suggests humanity has transformed the earth to such an extent that we have entered a new biogeophysical age. In this interactive graph, I have pulled data from Google Trends, which shows quantitative evidence of growing interest in the Anthropocene.
Read MoreUsing An Anthropocene Primer as our case study, this essay is organized into three sections. The first section introduces the primer as a tool that bridges disciplinary boundaries to advance critical and timely sociocultural research examining changing earth systems and the human experience. The second section examines the ways that anthropologists might productively engage with the dominant interdisciplinary debates and metanarratives about the Anthropocene and the role that tools such as the primer might play in this. The final section reflects on how the primer is one model of multimodal pedagogy that answers the needs of formal, informal, traditional, and continuing education in relation to serious play. In part, then, An Anthropocene Primer is one form of anthropological educational practice that might be used to prepare the next generation of researchers and partners with frameworks to pursue ethnography in the Anthropocene that is truly applied, interdisciplinary, and multimodal at the outset.
Read MoreThe Museum of the Anthropocene is an outdoor, city-wide museum that explores the intersections of history, science, art, and the environment in the age of the Anthropocene.
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