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tschuetz

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Transnational STS COVID-19 Project Participants

In response to

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?

I am a Ph.D. student in Cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. My email is tschuetz@uci.edu.

I have been working on a series of projects that could intersect with the COVID-19 work (running on Disaster STS Network or other PECE instances):

Quotidian Anthropocenes – uses a similarr cross-scalar analytics and place focus
Visualizing Toxic Place – could help to analyze and create ethnographically rich COVID-19 visuals
Environmental Injustice – could be supplemented with COVID-19 disaster case studies (beyond its current focus on California) and other teaching interventions that

I also edit the monthly newsletter for the PECE platform, which can be used to feature COVID-19 project content. You can sign up here to receive the newspaper.

Cutting across the COVID-19 project (and the others above) is my interest in "archiving for the Anthropocene." I ask what kind of new knowledge and data infrastructures that is necessary to support civic capacity in different places. I currently focus on sites of the Quotidian Anthropocene project, including Taiwan, Germany and Turkey.