Knowledge Infrastructure and Research Agendas for Quotidian Anthropocenes: Critical Localism with Planetary Scope

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The Anthropocene requires the development of new forms of knowledge and supporting sociotechnical infrastructure. While interdisciplinary and community-engaged approaches have been widely advocated, there remains a need to develop and sustain modes of Anthropocene knowledge production that effectively link actors working at different scales and in different sites. This article describes one such approach centered on “quotidian Anthropocenes” and short-term field campuses that bring together researchers with community actors and cultural institutions. The project develops collaborative analytic frameworks and digital research environments to support the characterization of Anthropocene dynamics across ecological, technological, political, and cultural systems.

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Fortun, Kim, James Adams, Tim Schütz, and Scott Gabriel Knowles. 2021.
“Knowledge Infrastructure and Research Agendas for Quotidian Anthropocenes: Critical Localism with Planetary Scope.”
The Anthropocene Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/20530196211031972