Writing.
Here you’ll find here an assorted collection that walks the lines between public-facing, less-than-academic and academic writing.
Dissertation Acknowledgements
This is a “preprint” manuscript of the acknowledgements section of my PhD dissertation. I present it here not to be self-indulgent, navel-gazing, but outwardly grateful to my relations in a medium more accessible than one hidden away in the dissertation, whenever that appears, officially finished and published by the McGill University Library.
Podcast Episode: Possibility and Climate Change (Talking Culture Podcast)
In this episode of “Talking Culture,” the McGill Anthropology graduate student podcast, I take up Season Two’s theme of “Possibility” along with a focus of my research, climate change. It explores the idea of possibility in the face of a problem like the climate crisis, which can often seem impossible. Based loosely on Chapter 3 of my PhD dissertation.
Climate Change and COVID-19: Online Learning and Experiments in Seeing the World Anew - anthro{dendum}
The site is easy to access. Just a short walk and I’m there, immediately confronted with two large rectangular windows. The large window up high and on the right is mostly opaque, save one dominating feature…
How to Make Climate Change Feel Real - SAPIENS
On Earth Day’s 50th anniversary, anthropological research reveals how complex, global problems can be made tangible through experience, empathy—and play.
Response to prompt 3: “On writing field notes; ‘To make gods of men and poetry of situations.’”
(A reflection on a prompt, a working-though, an auto-ethnographic account of familial medical record-keeping in a time of illness. February of 2016, for the Celestial Emporium of Uncertain Knowledge, a 3-month writing-and-keeping-relations experiment of The Thought Collective.)