Quotidian Anthropocenes

Abstract

This open panel will bring together researchers engaged with what Eli Elinoff and Tyson Vaughan have called the quotidian Anthropocene -- enactments of the Anthropocene in different places, shaped by geophysical, eco-atmospheric, sociotechnical, political-economic and cultural processes that produce local particularities. We hope to receive proposals for papers that examine how people have lived with/are living with and guarding against the Anthropocene, and building sciences, technologies and social programs turned to it. We also hope to learn how people are developing novel modes of analysis, communication and governance to address anthropocenics. One thread of papers will focus on the Mississippi River as site of the Anthropocene, sharing research developed in 2019 by a collective in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt's Mississippi: An Anthropocene River project. Another thread will examine disaster memorial projects as Anthropocene politics. A third will ask for comparative approaches (in method and/or geography) to Anthropocene work.

Chairs

• Scott Knowles, Drexel University

• Tyson Vaughan, Institute for Water Resources, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Individual Presentations

• B-E-A-UTAHful?: U.S. Public Land Management and Use in the Anthropocene - Danica Loucks, University of California, Irvine

• Energy Politics in Transition: On the Charge of Responsibility in Austin’s Anthropocene - James Adams, University of California, Irvine

• Mississippi River Anthropocenes: Running the River School - Tim Schuetz, UC Irvine; Jason Ludwig, Drexel University

• Mississippi River Anthropocenes: The St. Louis Field Campus - Jason Ludwig, Drexel University

Session Organizers

• Scott Knowles, Drexel University

• Tyson Vaughan, Institute for Water Resources, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers