This article examines two community–academic research partnerships addressing lead contamination in urban environments, showing how community-based participatory research reframes lead poisoning as an environmental justice issue and reshapes research agendas, policy debates, and community organizing.

This paper examines how a landmark citizen lawsuit against Formosa Plastics in Seadrift, Texas generated a $20 million fund for ecological restoration and sustainable fisheries, highlighting the complex, multi-stage legal and advocacy work required to pursue environmental justice and a just transition in late industrial contexts.

This article proposes new forms of collaborative knowledge infrastructure for studying the Anthropocene, emphasizing ‘quotidian Anthropocenes’ and partnerships between universities, cultural institutions, and local experts.

This chapter analyzes how the Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE) supports civic community archiving while revealing tensions between openness, participation, and infrastructure design.

This article analyzes how volunteer networking initiatives such as Freifunk for Refugees became embedded within refugee shelters during the European migration crisis, highlighting the sociotechnical work required to build humanitarian communication infrastructures.