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Quotidian Anthropocene

A digital collection for the Quotidian Anthropocene research project, field campus, and open seminar.

COVID-19 Alert Project

This essay will provide a portal into work in response to COVID-19.

AK COVID-Development Studies Intersections

Aalok Khandekar

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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 currently in the process of transitioning my M.A. level course on Science, Technology, and Development with 11 students to virtual instruction. One of my interests in engaging with COVID-19 is to examine how it (should) informs development ideologies and practices. How should students of development studies retool -- conceptually, methodologically, practically -- in wake of the pandemic?

Haiti's Quotidian Anthropocene - Collection

The effects of the Anthropocene (human-centric era) manifest differently, depending on geography. In Haiti, in particular, the quotidian life of diaster is imprinted in the landscape.