Right Research

Geoffrey Rockwell, Oliver Rossier, Chelsea Miya

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The book is current and interdisciplinary, engaging with recent developments around this topic and including perspectives from sciences, arts, and humanities. It will be a welcome contribution to studies of the Anthropocene as well as studies of research methods and practices.

—Sam Mickey, University of S. Francisco


Educational institutions play an instrumental role in social and political change, and are responsible for the environmental and social ethics of their institutional practices. The essays in this volume critically examine scholarly research practices in the age of the Anthropocene, and ask what accountability educators and researchers have in ‘righting’ their relationship to the environment. The volume further calls attention to the geographical, financial, legal and political barriers that might limit scholarly dialogue by excluding researchers from participating in traditional modes of scholarly conversation.

As such, Right Research is a bold invitation to the academic community to rigorous self-reflection on what their research looks like, how it is conducted, and how it might be developed so as to increase accessibility and sustainability, and decrease carbon footprint. The volume follows a three-part structure that bridges conceptual and practical concerns: the first section challenges our assumptions about how sustainability is defined, measured and practiced; the second section showcases artist-researchers whose work engages with the impact of humans on our environment; while the third section investigates how academic spaces can model eco-conscious behaviour.


This timely volume responds to an increased demand for environmentally sustainable research, and is outstanding not only in its interdisciplinarity, but its embrace of non-traditional formats, spanning academic articles, creative acts, personal reflections and dialogues. Right Research will be a valuable resource for educators and researchers interested in developing and hybridizing their scholarly communication formats in the face of the current climate crisis.

Sujets

• Types of educational institutions
• Social change
• Education
• Anthropology

Informations

• Publié par: Open Book Publishers
• Date de parution: 29 avril 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783749645
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

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Right Research

Right Research
Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene
Edited by Chelsea Miya, Oliver Rossier and Geoffrey Rockwell





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This book is dedicated to Doris and Peter Kule for their support for the advancement of social sciences, humanities and arts research. Their gift established the Kule Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Alberta that brought us together.
We are also deeply grateful to the researchers and support teams that made the Around the World conference series such a success over the years.
And we also dedicate this to future scholars, for everything you will do to help weave together our civil society to face the shared challenges of climate change.

Contents
Contributor Biographies
xi
Editors’ Preface
xxiii
Chelsea Miya, Oliver Rossier and Geoffrey Rockwell
SECTION ONE: RE-DEFINING SUSTAINABILITY
1
1.
Why Should We Try to Be Sustainable? Expected Consequences and the Ethics of Making an Indeterminate Difference
3
Howard Nye
2.
Sustainability in the Anthropocene: From Forests to the Globe
37
Petra Dolata
3.
Academia, Abstraction and the Anthropocene: Changing the Story for Right Relationship
61
Kristine Kowalchuk
4.
Kitting the Digital Humanities for the Anthropocene: Digital Metabolism and Eco-Critical DH
93
Amanda Starling Gould
5.
Impact of the Digital Revolution on Worldwide Energy Consumption
111
Doug Barlage and Gem Shoute
6.
Sustainable DNA: In Conversation
133
Mél Hogan and Deb Verhoeven
SECTION 2: ART AND/IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
153
7.
Design Education in the Anthropocene: Teaching Systems Thinking
155
Eric Benson and Priscilla Ferronato
8.
Inspiration from Goethe’s Tender Empiricism: How to be the Person Collecting, Analyzing and Visualizing Data
173
Joshua Korenblat
9.
Solidarity Seeds: Situated Knowledges in Bishan Village, Wang Chau Village and Aarey Forest
217
Michael Leung
10.
e-Waste Peep Show : A Research-Creation Project on the (In)visibility of Technological Waste
257
Lai-Tze Fan
11.
Art, Ecology, and the Politics of Form: A Panel Revisited
275
Natalie Loveless, Andrew S. Yang, Karin Bolender, Christa Donner, Scott Smallwood, Leanne Olson and Jesse Beier
SECTION THREE: SUSTAINABLE CAMPUSES
307
12.
The Weight of The Digital: Experiencing Infrastructure with InfraVU
309
Ted Dawson
13.
Asking Why: Cultivating Eco-Consciousness in Research Labs
329
Allison Paradise
14.
Sustainability, Living Labs and Repair: Approaches to Climate Change Mitigation
357
Hart Cohen, Francesca Sidoti, Alison Gill, Abby Mellick Lopes, Maryella Hatfield and Jonathon Allen
15.
An Intro to Econferences
399
Chelsea Miya, Geoffrey Rockwell and Oliver Rossier
16.
Econferences Are Not the Same, but Are They Good Enough?
421
Terry Anderson
17.
Online Conferences: Some History, Methods and Benefits
435
Nick Byrd
18.
‘Greening’ Academic Gatherings: A Case for Econferences
463
Oliver Rossier, Chelsea Miya and Geoffrey Rockwell
List of Illustrations
511
Index
519

Contributor Biographies
Jonathon Allen is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University (WSU). Jonathon has twenty-five years’ university teaching, research, management and governance experience, the last half of which has been in significant leadership and governance roles at Western Sydney University, including Head of The Academy, Provost of Penrith Campus, Director of Academic Program for Visual Communication Design in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, and Associate Head of School of Engineering. His research, teaching and engagement interests typically see him work in collaboration with other disciplines, to progress design’s role in bringing together arts, science and technology with a strong social conscience. He has a broad range of research outputs, including traditional publications (book chapters, journal and conference papers), exhibitions and prototypical artefacts, and has a particular interest in material intelligence (smart materials, intelligent use of materials, and in the hidden stories of sourcing and selecting materials); the application of design thinking to address pressing concerns related to food security, climate change, and health; and in the use of Augmented Reality to interact and engage with the physical world.
Terry Anderson , PhD, is a Professor Emeritus and former Canada Research Chair in the Centre for Distance Education and the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Centre at Athabasca University. Terry has published widely in the area of distance education and educational technology and has co-authored or edited ten books and numerous papers. Much of Terry’s research work revolves around studying interaction amongst and between students, teachers and content. He claims to have organized (in 1992) the first virtual conference ever held using a variety of networks that preceded the Internet.
Doug Barlage has been a Professor in nanoelectronics for the past sixteen years. Prior to this, he was an engineer with Intel where he played a critical role in producing the first production high-k gate dielectric transistor and the first trigate transistor. For his role in demonstrating the functional transistors with gate dimensions below 30nm, he was in the MIT TR-35 class of 2002.
Jessie Beier is an Edmonton-based teacher, artist, writer and conjurer of strange pedagogies for uncertain futures. Working at the intersection between speculative philosophy, artistic production and radical pedagogy, Jessie’s research-creation practice explores the potential for visual and sonic ecologies to mobilize a break from orthodox referents and habits of repetition, towards more eco-logical modes of thought. Beier is currently completing her PhD at the University of Alberta, where she also teaches as an undergraduate instructor in the Department of Secondary Education and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.
Eric Benson is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Illinois. He has worked as a professional designer for such companies as Razorfish and Texas Instruments. His research as a professor explores how design can be sustainable and consequently how to teach it. Eric has a BFA in Industrial/Graphic design from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Design from the University of Texas.
Karin Bolender (aka K-Haw Hart) is an artist-researcher who seeks ‘untold’ stories within muddy meshes of timeplaces. Under the auspices of the Rural Alchemy Workshop (R.A.W.), she explores dirty words and knotty wisdoms of earthly bodies-in-places through durational performance, writing, video, sound, and experimental books arts. Karin earned an MFA in Interdisci