From the Michigan Coalition to transnational collaboration: interactive research methods for the future of environmental justice research

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 684-691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernadette Grafton ◽  
Alejandro Colsa Perez ◽  
Katy Hintzen ◽  
Paul Mohai ◽  
Sara Orvis ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
Patricia Leavy

The book editor offers some final comments about the state of the field and promise for the future. Leavy suggests researchers consider using the language of “shapes” to talk about the forms their research takes and to highlight the ongoing role of the research community in shaping knowledge-building practices. She reviews the challenges and rewards of taking your work public. Leavy concludes by noting that institutional structures need to evolve their rewards criteria in order to meet the demands of practicing contemporary research and suggests that professors update their teaching practices to bring the audiences of research into the forefront of discussions of methodology.


2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil M. Dawson ◽  
Kenneth Grogan ◽  
Adrian Martin ◽  
Ole Mertz ◽  
Maya Pasgaard ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angeliki Balayannis ◽  
Emma Garnett

Feminist technoscientific research with chemicals is proliferating. This critical commentary considers how this scholarship extends environmental justice research on pollution. We are concerned with two key questions: How can we do/design ethical research with chemicals? And, what methods allow for researching chemicals without resorting to an imagined space of purity? We consider unfolding projects which reorient relations with chemicals from villainous objects with violent effects, to chemical kin. We imagine chemical kinship as a concept, an analytical tool, and a mode of relating. Emerging through feminist and anticolonial work with chemicals, it involves a tentativeness towards making normative claims about chemicals because, like kin, these materials are never entirely good nor bad, at once they can both be enabling and harmful. This commentary considers what the unfolding research with chemicals generates, and consolidates conceptualisations of chemical kinship; we ultimately articulate an agenda for ethical research with chemicals as an experimental process of invention.


2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 179-194
Author(s):  
Michael Ullyot

In the three decades since the rise of New Historicism, Renaissance studies has progressed through extensions of scholars’ archival reach to new objects for new interpretations. The future will bring expansions on a larger scale, like those we now witness in English print archives. Machine-readable transcriptions of some fifty thousand texts now enable scholars to use algorithms that tell us things about them that are true, yet can only be known in the future. This is an argument not for an algorithmic criticism but for an augmented criticism, in which human judgments are the origin and outcome of algorithmic research methods. It sketches the emergent methods that are possible only in 2015, yet will do for the archival humanities what telescopes did for astronomy. Durant les trois décennies qui ont suivi l’émergence de la nouvelle histoire, les études de la Renaissance ont développé grâce à un travail approfondi d’archives de nouvelles données à interpréter. Des développements similaires de plus grande ampleur nous attendent, tels que ceux que nous observons dans l’étude des archives imprimées anglaises. Des transcriptions pouvant être analysées par des logiciels permettent maintenant aux chercheurs d’utiliser des algorithmes révélant de nouveaux faits réels, et pourtant inaccessibles avant aujourd’hui. Il s’agit d’un argument non pas en faveur de la critique algorithmique, mais en faveur d’une critique plus vigilante, assurant que le jugement humain est bien au centre des hypothèses et des résultats des méthodes de recherche algorithmique. Cet article fait un portrait des méthodes émergentes qui ne sont possibles qu’en 2015, et qui pourraient avoir le même effet que le télescope pour l’astronomie.


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