Right Research
Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene
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 mi...
Éditeur : Open Book Publishers
Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 16 septembre 2021
ISBN numérique : 979-10-365-2190-4
Collection : OBP collection
Année d’édition : 2021
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-1-78374-961-4
Nombre de pages : xxvi-528
Section one: Re-defining sustainability
Howard Nye
1. Why Should We Try to Be Sustainable?Expected Consequences and the Ethics of Making an Indeterminate Difference
Kristine Kowalchuk
3. Academia, Abstraction and the Anthropocene : Changing the Story for Right RelationshipAmanda Starling Gould
4. Kitting the Digital Humanities for the Anthropocene: Digital Metabolism and Ecocritical DHDoug Barlage et Gem Shoute
5. Impact of the Digital Revolution on Worldwide Energy ConsumptionMél Hogan et Deb Verhoeven
6. Sustainable DNA: In ConversationSection 2: Art and/in the anthropocene
Eric Benson et Priscilla Ferronato
7. Design Education in the Anthropocene: Teaching Systems ThinkingJoshua Korenblat
8. Inspiration from Goethe’s Tender Empiricism: How to be the Person Collecting, Analyzing and Visualizing DataMichael Leung
9. Solidarity Seeds : Situated Knowledges in Bishan Village, Wang Chau Village and Aarey ForestLai-Tze Fan
10. e-Waste Peep Show: AResearch-Creation Project on the (In) visibility of Technological WasteNatalie Loveles, S. Yang, Karin Bolender et al.
11. Art, Ecology, and the Politics of Form: A Panel RevisitedSection three: Sustainable campuses
Allison Paradise
13. Asking Why: Cultivating Eco-Consciousness in Research LabsHart Cohen, Francesca Sidoti, Alison Gill et al.
14. Sustainability, Living Labs and Repair: Approaches to Climate Change MitigationChelsea Miya, Geoffrey Rockwell et Oliver Rossier
15. An Intro to EconferencesTerry Anderson
16. Econferences Are Not the Same, but Are They Good Enough?Oliver Rossier, Chelsea Miya et Geoffrey Rockwe
18. ‘Greening’Academic Gatherings: A Case for EconferencesEducational 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.
Chelsea Miya (dir.)
Chelsea Miya is a PhD Candidate and CGS SSHRC fellow in English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta where her work focuses on the cultural history of data. She is a researcher and podcaster with the SpokenWeb, a multi-institutional interdisciplinary project dedicated to the discovery, preservation, and analysis of sonic artifacts.
Oliver Rossier (dir.)
Oliver Rossier has a BA in History and Political Science, and an MA in Communications and Technology, both from the University of Alberta. He has over twenty years of post-secondary administrative experience, facilitating collaborative research projects and strategic initiatives. He is committed to helping research teams find the right tools and techniques to navigate transitions caused by the tandem tsunamis of COVID-19 and significant budget reductions.
Geoffrey Rockwell (dir.)
Geoffrey Rockwell is a Professor of Philosophy and Digital Humanities, Director of the Kule Institute for Advanced Study and Associate Director of the AI for Society signature area at the University of Alberta. He publishes on textual visualization, text analysis, ethics of technology and on digital humanities including a co-authored book, Hermeneutica, from MIT Press (2016). He is co-developer of Voyant Tools (voyant-tools.org), an award-winning suite of text analysis tools.

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