These questions, selected from the broader set of questions for the Transnational Disaster STS COVID-19 Project, will orient the project's Collaboration Call on Friday, May 222.
The TRANSnational-STS Covid-19 Project will bring together researchers in the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) to follow and analyze COVID-19 as it plays out in different settings. The project will have digital work space, share a Zotero bibliography and connect through an email list and Zoom video conferencing.
This question set guides "emic reading" -- close reading of a text on its own terms. It is part of the experimental Ethnographic Methods sketch, Building Literature Reviews.
This question set guides reading across texts -- as for a literature review. It is part of the experimental Ethnographic Methods sketch, Building Literature Reviews.
This set of questions will be help focus shared reading of Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann's Climate Leviathan - bringing together people in overlapping collaborations (focused on environmental governance, Transnational STS, Quotidian Anthropocenes, Visualizing Toxic Places , and COVID-19).
This set of questions can be used to interrogate land use--attending to use, management, and tenure--across study locations and generate data for productive site comparison.
The Open Seminar will direct collaborative attention to the many scales and types of systems that interlace and synergize to produce anthropocenics on the ground in particular locales and vernanculars. These questions will guide our engagements.
This question is meant to provide unstructured space for notes on different quotidian Anthropocenes (St. Louis, New Orleans, etc) -- first set up to support the St. Louis Anthropocene Field Campus in March, 2019.
