Skip to main content

Main navigation

Home
About
Collaborate
Analyze
Discover

User account menu

Log in

User account menu

Log in

Search

User account menu

Log in

Analyze

Point Comfort Coverage

tschuetz

Annotation of

Point Comfort, Formosa Plastics USA

In response to

How does news and legal precedents associated with this plant travel?

See news coverage timeline.

Choose focus for analysis

Annotation (1)

Contributor

People who added this content and can edit it.

tschuetz (1)

Annotated artifact type

Show annotations that have been made on artifacts of the selected content types.

PECE Essay (1)

Annotated artifact

Show annotations that have been made on the selected artifacts.

Point Comfort, Formosa Plastics USA (1)

Analytic (Question)

What have you learned about anthropocenics in this place?
Where are you situated as COVID-19 plays out? What backstories shape your engagement with COVID-19? How can you be contacted? What questions and settings are you especially interested in following?
2. What environmental hazards are there in this setting, what is their source and what are their effects on the environment, health and inclusive prosperity?
1. What is the setting of this case? What are its assets? What opportunities and challenges will there be in this setting in coming years?
What do you hope to get out of the lab?
5. What have different stakeholder groups done (or not done) in response to the problems in this setting?
3. What intersecting factors -- social, cultural, political, technological, ecological -- contribute to environmental health vulnerability and injustice in this setting? What has produced historic disadvantage?
As COVID-19 has continued to unfold, what research questions have you come to see as especially important? How have you imagined working on them? Would you appreciate collaborators?
MACRO: What economic activities have contributed to Formosa Plastics’ operations and pollution in this setting? How are future economies imagined and planned? What laws and policies have addressed Formosa Plastics’ development and harm?
6. How have environmental problems in this setting been reported on by media, environmental groups, companies and government agencies? Where has there been data divergence?
MESO: Who are stakeholders in this Formosa Plastics community and how do they relate to each other? What forms of political organization have emerged to address Formosa Plastics’ environmental harm?
How is COVID-19 impacting and intersecting with air pollution?
What data infrastructure -- in different settings, at different scales -- supports efforts to understand and respond to COVID-19?
If you have been working in a research group within the broader research collective, what has been your focus and work process? How have you imagined sharing your work with the broader research collective? Are you open to new members in your group?
How is Formosa Plastics talked and worried about in this setting? (Meta)
What digital tools do you already use in your research?
If you are interested in participating in (Zoom) Collaboration Calls, will Fridays, 6am PT work for you? Should calls be monthly, or twice a month? Other suggestions?
What questions and frustrations does this text leave you with?
What concepts does this text build from and advance?
4. Who are stakeholders, what are their characteristics, and what are their perceptions of the problems?
DEUTERO: What capacity (and incapacity) is there to recognize and attend to Formosa Plastics’ environmental harm in this setting? How might academic projects contribute to or scaffold this capacity?
How is COVID-19 knowledge and expertise moving across national borders?
How are K-12 schools (primary and secondary schools) responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, what kind of support have they been given, what problems have emerged, and how are these problems being tracked and responded to?
META: How are energy imaginaries—motivations, rationalities, methods, means, scales, etc.—being expressed, deliberated, and debated during COVID-19? What new forms of expression have these discourses engendered?
What quotes from this text are exemplary or particularly evocative?
What is the main argument, narrative and effect of this text? What evidence and examples support these?
How does this text inform our understanding of COVID-19?
8. What extra-local actions (at state, national or international levels) would reduce environmental vulnerability and injustice in this setting and similar settings?
What expertise, capacities, and skills do you want to learn by participating in the EcoGovLab?
What is the stated mission this organization today? How is the organization's mission explained (on its website, in public meetings, by individuals, etc)?
ECO-ATMO: What ecosystems in this setting are depended on, protected, or compromised, and how is this recognized (or not)? How are global warming and other atmospheric currents stressing local landscapes?
MESO: What forms of political organization and have been developed in order to plan and manage this site’s energy system and energy transition? How do these organizations relate to each other?
How is the aftermath of COVID-19 crisis being imagined in different settings? How is this shaping beliefs, practices, and policies?
How have COVID-19 data been debated and disputed?
What is there to report from the Austin Energy Transition project?
MICRO 1: How is energy research, planning, and development being carried out or resisted during COVID-19? How are COVID-19 policies and practices preventing access to energy assistance, which is needed ever more given decreased incomes?
What insights from critical disaster studies can help frame cultural analysis in and of the COVID-19 pandemic?
Are you interested in building digital collections of material related to your research interests, potentially inviting others in the group to look at them with you? What digital collections have you started or envis
What ideas do you have for further development of the Transnational Disaster STS COVID 19 project?
Would you like to present work or host all or part of a call when we reconvene in September?
How will your own research build from, counter and compare with this text?
7. What local actions would reduce environmental vulnerability and injustice in this setting?
9. What kinds of data and research would be useful in efforts to characterize and address environmental threats in this setting and similar settings?
What is this data resource called and how should it be cited?
What data is drawn into the data resource and where does it come from?
What environmental and health harms have been associated with this hazard?
What expertise, capacities, and skills do we need in the EcoGovLab?
What expertise, capacities, and skills do you bring to the EcoGovLab?
TECHNO: What industries & infrastructure have produced Formosa Plastics’ operations & environmental harm in this setting? What infrastructure has been built in response? How, for example, has energy transition and climate change adaptation been pursued?
What is this organization's structure today? Who works in or is a member of this organization?
What initiatives (research, activism, education, etc.) are illustrative of this organization’s work?
What other organizations does this organization interact and collaborate with? What organizations does this organization criticize or distance itself from? How is collaboration conceptualized and talked about?
DEUTERO: What capacity (and incapacity) is there to recognize and attend to “the Anthropocene” in this setting? How might academic projects contribute to or scaffold this capacity?
META: How is “the Anthropocene” – by this, or some other name – talked and worried about in this setting? What modes of communication carry and occlude engagement with anthropocenics? What discursive histories shape contemporary articulations?
MACRO: What economic activities have contributed to anthropocenics in this setting? How are future economies imagined and planned? What laws and policy have addressed anthropocenics?
NANO: What psychologies have anthropocenics produced in this setting and how is this refiguring what people want and consider possible? What thought styles and language ideologies are in play?
EXDU: Who is imagining and planning for anthropocenic futures in this setting, with what modes of expertise, cut by what vested interests? What educational programs -- environmental, civic, media, STEM and so on -- are addressing anthrhopocenics?
EXDU: What forms of education about land use and management exist in this space, and who provides this education? By whose logics and practices is this education organized?
GEO: How has this site’s energy system marked, transmuted, destabilized and harmed this setting? How, where, and what kind of traces of this harm are being observed, recorded, mitigated/exacerbated?
ECO-ATMO: What is considered to “count” as an environmental problem (as opposed to a social/political problem)? What ecosystems in this setting are depended on, protected, or compromised, and how is this recognized (or not)?
TECHNO: What technology does this site’s current energy-system infrastructure consist of? How does it function, and dysfunction? What sorts of energy-related problems are imagined to be in/solvable with or through the development of new technologies?
How is COVID-19 coordinational capacity in different settings described, evaluated and explained?
How is ‘social distancing’ practiced and interpreted in different COVID-19 settings?
What COVID-19 research has been undertaken in different settings? What organizations have taken the lead and how are they funded?
Which social groups are particularly vulnerable and marginalized in different COVID-19 settings? What contributes to and compounds their vulnerability?
How is COVID-19 unfolding in India?
How is COVID-19 unfolding in the Navajo Nation (Dinétah)?
How is COVID-19 challenging the finance and operations of different kinds of educational institutions, in different settings?
How are COVID-19 educational disruptions characterized in different settings? What is being foregrounded and obscured -- as problems, and as needed response?
What insights from postcolonial studies seem especially relevant in contemporary, cultural analysis -- inevitably shaped by if not directly focused on the COVID-19 pandemic?
DEUTERO: What conceptual apparatuses and habits, modes of collectivity and economy scaffold (or undercut) reflexive reconsideration of how energy is being thought and talked about during COVID-19?
MACRO 1: What economic activities and interests have and continue to shape energy planning and practice in the midst of COVID-19? How has COVID-19’s impact on different energy systems influenced the way future economies are being imagined and planned?
MACRO 2: What laws and policy have addressed COVID-19’s impacts on energy production, distribution, and consumption? How have they caused different scales of sovereignties (federal, state, municipal, etc.) to intersect, overlap, and resist each other?
NANO 1: What thought styles, semiotic ideologies, and phenomenologies are in play in imagining and responding to the impacts of COVID-19 on energy systems, energy use, and knowledge of energy?
What insights from critical theorizing about place can inform current efforts to understand and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic as a transnational disaster?
How has policing unfolded within the COVID-19 pandemic? What response has it provoked?
How has the Black Lives Matter movement mobilized commentary and collective action in different settings? How has it been connected to COVID-19?
How are people reimagining what is needed and possible in the wake of COVID-19, protests against police brutality and anti-blackness, and other, compounding developments?
How is anti-Blackness compounding with COVID-19 in different settings?
What questions do you have for the author?
What motivates you to use digital tools (efficiency, desire to collaborate, the politics of open access, etc.)
Thus far, how have you encountered expectations (from funders, for example) that you’ll digitally manage and possibly share your data?
What plans do you have to teach with assignments in the COVID-19 Ethnographic Portfolio Project? See https://disaster-sts-network.org/content/covid-19-student-ethnographic-portfolio-project/essay
Who makes this data available and what is their mission?
What scales (county, regional, neighborhood, census tract) can be seen through this data resource?
How has this data resource been critiqued or acknowledged to be limited?
How is the organization perceived, internally and externally? How has this organization been represented in the media?
What groups and government agencies have become involved in plant oversight?
What's the setting of the plant?
What is this hazard?
What activism has this hazard prompted?
What expertise, capacities, and skills do you see in the room/among current EcoGovLab members?
MICRO: What kinds of labor have contributed to and go on within this Formosa Plastics community? What practices (for controlling toxic contamination, for example) has Formosa Plastics provoked?
NANO: What psychologies has Formosa Plastics produced in this setting and how is this refiguring what people want and consider possible? What thought styles and language ideologies are in play?
EXDU: Who is imagining and planning for Formosa Plastics’ futures in this setting, with what modes of expertise, cut by what vested interests? What educational programs – environmental, civic, media, STEM and so on – are addressing Formosa Plastics?
DATA: What data infrastructure supports recognition, characterization and response to Formosa Plastics in this setting? Who has access to relevant data and sense-making tools?
What events (internal and external) or data have had a significant impact on the evolution of the organization?
How is this organization funded today?
What kind of data and research does this organization produce and share? How does the organization evaluate and monitor the credibility of the information it uses and circulates?
What kinds of infrastructure and technology does this organization use?
What do people in this organization find challenging or concerning in the problem spaces in which they work?
BIO: How are bodies in this setting laced and burdened with anthropocenics? How are anthropocenic bodies racialized bodies?
DATA: What data infrastructure supports recognition, characterization and response to anthropocenics in this setting? Who has access to relevant data and sense-making tools?
TECHNO: What industries and infrastructure have produced anthropocenics in this setting? What infrastructure has been built in response? How, for example, has energy transition and climate change adaptation been pursued?
META: What discourses shape the way people in this setting talk about and conceptualize civic data infrastructure and capacity, right-to-know, freedom of information, the potential of expanded public participation, and so on?
DATA: What civic data and communication infrastructure is in place in this setting and how is it configured, accessible and usable? What data, infrastructure and visualization capacity is provided by federal government actors, lower level government acto
TECHNO: What technical infrastructure in this setting needs to be monitored, governed and planned, and what civic data infrastructure is needed for this?
ECO-ATMO: What ecosystems in this setting need to be monitoring, governed and planned, and what civic data infrastructure is needed for this? What civic data infrastructure needed to account and plan for climate change in this setting?
MESO: What groups, networks, and publics seek to participate in land and resource governance? What forms of political organization have been developed in order to call for or enact particular forms of land management?
MICRO: What kinds of land use are carried out in this place? What practices make up efforts to shape land use/management? How is “public participation” organized, encouraged, valued or discounted?
DEUTERO: Who is thinking or worrying about the impacts of varied land use in a reflective manner? When/where/with whom are the scalar impacts of certain land uses recognized or acknowledged (or are unseen or ignored)?
GEO: How have geologic characteristics of this space shaped what kinds of land use are possible/feasible? How have varied forms of land use marked, shaped, and marred the landscapes of this setting? What anthropocenic conditions exist in this setting?
MACRO: What forms of land tenure have existed historically and exist in the present, & how have these shaped land use & management? What historical, economic, political, & cultural conditions have shaped property & land management regimes in this place?
ECO-ATMO: What effects do current or historical forms of land tenure, management, & use have on the ecological health of this place? What ecosystems are depended on, protected, or compromised to enable certain land uses, & how is this recognized (or not)?
BIO: How are bodies (human and non-human) in this setting differentially impacted by current and historical forms of land tenure, management, and use? How are these embodied inequalities naturalized, racialized, homogenized, erased, and/or politicized?
DATA: How & what kind of data is being produced, visualized, inscribed, authorized, disseminated, and mobilized to shape future land use? What data infrastructures have been developed, are being developed, or are perceived as necessary for land managment?
MACRO: What economic activities have and continue to shape energy transition planning and practice in this setting? How do sovereignties (federal, state, municipal) intersect, overlap, and resist each other?
BIO: How are bodies (human and non-human) in this setting differentially laced and burdened with the costs of this site’s current energy system and/or practices of energy transition? (How) Are these embodied inequalities naturalized or politicized?
NANO: What thought styles, semiotic ideologies and phenomenologies are in play in understanding this energy system and imagining energy transition? What data, forms of analysis, and modes of expression are persuasive and consequential here?
DATA: How do various stakeholders understand the proper conduct for producing and interpreting data to plan and guide energy transition? What data infrastructures have been developed, are being developed, or are perceived as necessary?
EXDU: What roles have the different practices, venues, programs, levels, and institutions of education (formal and informal) played in shaping how local stakeholders think about and practice energy transition?
How, in different settings, have dominant political regimes and ideologies shaped COVID-19 preparation and response?
What COVID-19 data visualizations are in circulation and to what effect?
How is COVID-19 knowledge and expertise moving across national borders -- then shaping regulatory measures, clinical practice, scientific research, public participation, and other modes of response?
What kinds of education about COVID-19 has been mobilized and planned?
How is COVID-19 unfolding in Haiti?
How is COVID-19 unfolding in the Kenya?
How does COVID-19 challenge entrenched ways of thinking about the purposes and content of education? What literacies does COVID-19 call for?
How is COVID19 impacting and intersecting with food security?
NANO 2: What data, forms of analysis, emergent practices, and modes of expression are persuasive and consequential here?
BIO: How do energy systems impact abilities to avoid or fight off COVID-19 infections? How have COVID-related disruptions/responses to energy systems impacted other bodily vulnerabilities? How are these embodied inequalities being perceived/discussed?
EXDU 1: How have different programs/institutions of education influenced conceptions of the intersection between energy-system management and disease control? Do shifts in household energy conditions force residents to rethink/learn about energy systems?
At which scales, how, and with which effects do places emerge as a story of “success”/“failure”/“belatedness” in the governance of COVID-19 pandemic?
What are the limitations of signifying governing models of COVID-19 pandemic at the national scale (e.g., “Korean model”)?
Whether, how and what forms of spatial relations have changed at the moment of COVID-19 pandemic?
What insights from critical theorizing about place can inform current efforts to understand and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic
What quotes from this text are exemplary or particularly evocative?
What does this text suggest for thinking about energy systems, politics, and land?
In your research -for this project and beyond -what concerns do you have about digital data preservation and data sharing? What digital data would you want or need to keep fully private? Restricted to a small group? What data could you openly share?
Thus far, how have you been part of discussions about the purpose and politics of data sharing, open access, etc?
What does this text suggest for thinking about and building energy governance?
COVID-19 meat packing industry
How are people and organizations critically reflecting on COVID communications?
How are COVID communications imprinted with legacy hegemonies? How are hegemonies shifting and where is this evident?
What communities characterize this place and how do they communicate? What communications sources have cultural authority in different communities?
"What aspects of PECE (artifact bundles, timelines, PECE essays, restricted groups, etc) do you not understand when or how to use?”
10. What intersecting injustices -- data, economic, epistemic, gender, health, infrastructure, intergenerational, media, procedural, racial, reproductive -- contribute to environmental injustice in this setting?
What can be demonstrated or interpreted with this data set?
What data visualizations illustrate how this data set can be leveraged to characterize environmental injustice in different settings?
What steps does a user need to take to produce analytically sharp or provocative data visualizations with this data resource?
How has this data resource been used in research and advocacy?
What roles do people play in plant operations?
How does news and legal precedents associated with this plant travel?
What does the plant produce (products, pollution, health outcomes)?
What publications focus on this plant?
What legal actions have focused on this plant?
What political-economic dynamics have shaped the development of the plant?
How does this plant interface and influence the setting where it operates?
How has the company and plant represented itself?
How does the company disclose its pollution and risk management plans?
Where is this hazard located?
What social groups and organizations are stakeholders in this hazard?
What science and engineering research publications focused on this hazard have been especially important?
EiJ Taiwan: How are Bunun people reclaiming homeland territory?
What does this data visualization not show?
ECO-ATMO: What ecosystems in this setting does Formosa Plastics depend on, protect, or compromise, and how is this recognized (or not)? How are global warming and other atmospheric currents stressing local landscapes?
GEO: How has intensive human activity marked, transmuted, destabilized and harmed this Formosa community? What levels of lead and other metals are in the soil? Where is hazardous waste stored?
How can place be seen as a way of understanding the world?
How is place socially constructed?
How is the relation between place and capitalism?
Transnational Alliances: What barriers (logistical, cultural, historical, imagined) may limit the creation of international activist alliances against Formosa Plastics Group?

Powered by Drupal