C-Urge project is a doctoral network set up to research and better understand the complexity of climate and enviromental change, that is happening on global, as well as on a local scale.
Through various research approaches set in various countries, we aim to highlight the notion of urgency and need to enrich the debate around the topic of environemtal change, that is both fast, and subtle and poses a serious challenge for the future.
I teach anthropology and environmental studies at Haveford College, just outside of Philly. Currently, I'm holed up in a cabin in the Adirondacks in upstate New York with several family members, including my spouse and 4 year old daughter and 3 dogs. I started working on disasters by accident, when one day in 2001 I was walking to class at NYU and saw the World Trade Center buildings on flames. I have known Kim for a few year and I contacted her to connect with folks around Covid-19 and its imacts.
I'm particularly intersted in issues of communal grief, mourning, and bereavement. Also, I'm interested in the religious response to Covid-19.
This is the PECE essay bibliography for:
In this photo essay, I present and caption three images that are meaningful to the sustainability experts in this study.
This image is an infographic from the firm SOM and was described as intending to “[advance] SOM's global thinking about the city of the future.” Here, Los Angeles serves as a case-study for this in
This image is an advertisement for a talk in which “experts in energy, environmental science, law and urban planning will address the challenges of creating sustainable and resilient megacities.” T
This ethnographic sketch identifies two “core categories” - collaboration and expertise/leadership - that this research project on sustainability experts will explore.
In this ethnogrpahic sketch I propose and outline a one week undergraduate course module, Critical Sustainability, based on the findings of this research project.
In this ethnographic sketch, I outline events that, from my interpretation, had significance in the historical build up to my project space: sustainability expertise in Los Angeles.
This image represents page 10 in the City of LA’s Sustainable City pLAn 2nd Annual Report 2016-2017.