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Culture, Energy, Power Collaborative Project Statement

This statement outlines our goals for the Biomass project, what materials we assembled, and our guiding theoretical compasses for analysis of our work during Dr.

Timeline of Biomass in Eastern North Carolina

This timeline documents the emergence and evolution of the biomass industry in Eastern North Carolina.

Scale and "Community"

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Environmental Politics of Reproduction

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What scales, systems, and/or objects of study does this text point to as important for understanding this Field Campus as a site of the Quotidian Anthropocene?

Thinking through this article and Vermeylen's, something we might consider in ATX is how we conceptualize community itself. It is so easy in EJ-contexts to make communities our object of study and analysis, which can erase identities and exclusions within them...

How is ecological harm and gentrification experienced by LGBTQ people in Austin? Women? Etcetera?

Energy and Race

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Reimagining ‘justice’ in environmental justice: Radical ecologies, decolonial thought, and the Black Radical Tradition

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What scales, systems, and/or objects of study does this text point to as important for understanding this Field Campus as a site of the Quotidian Anthropocene?

What is the energy sector's relationship to racial capitalism? How is its current configuration shaped by legacies of settler colonialism, state bureaucracy, and corporate investment?

Settler Colonialism in Texas

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Special issue: environmental justice and epistemic violence

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What interesting concepts or analytical frames does this text put forward? How might you repurpose or reformulate them to guide your analysis of this Field Campus as a site of the Quotidian Anthropocene?

Environmental justice narratives in the U.S. often fall into "sacrifice zone" narratives that universalize experiences on the community-level, reproducing specifically bounded narratives about American lives and livelihoods, relationships to nature and capital, and the kinds of knowledge and authority that matter. Vermeylen's article disrupts this idea, rightfully arguing that environmental justice requires a more upfront confrontation with the socio-historical causes of oppression brought about by coloniality, as well as the fact that we need to question the righteousness of EJ discourses that rely on white settler logics.

For the Austin Field Campus, how can we bring attention to Anglo-American settler colonialism in our approaches to EJ and gentrification? And thinking back to the NOLA Field Campus, what Texas histories should we be drawing from to understand energy transitions in the city?

Ethical Obligations and the "After"

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East Austin Environmental Justice History

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How can this text contribute to our thinking about the purpose and design of QA Field Campuses (understood as knowledge infrastructure tuned to the Anthropocene)?

Providing a historical overview of EJ-related issues and organzing in Austin, Walsh's piece gestures to the need for deep engagement with those already doing what we might consider 'quotidian anthropocenic' work in our field campus locations. What are our ethical relationships and obligations to those we collaborate with during our time physically in the city? What should they be after? How can our analytical contributions help organizations like PODER and other local activists fighting gentrification and biased zoning laws?