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Just Environments: Critical Infrastructure Studies - Reading Group

Engaging humanities perspectives, environmental studies, and social justice theory, the Just Environments Collaborative unites humanities centers across the United States to foreground the intertwined nature of social and environmental justice problems. We are organizing a number of interdisciplinary events for the 2020-2021 academic year, beginning with a meeting on 9 November 2020 at 5 PM PST to study work by Dr. Alan Liu on critical infrastructure studies: a new field uniting “an international community of scholars from many fields who are exploring how looking at the world through the concept of infrastructure—of things and systems made, built, shaped, crafted, interwoven, old, new, lived, loved, hated, sustained, or resisted—can make a difference.” The work by Dr. Liu that we will read for that event is entitled “What Infrastructure Assumes.” In following, on 12 November 2020 at 1:30 PM PST, Dr. Alan Liu will give a Zoom lecture entitled “Critical Infrastructure Studies--A Primer;” the event will conclude with Dr. Liu fielding questions from the audience. Register for Dr. Liu's lecture here and find the UCI event page for his talk here.

PhotoVoice Invitation

Inspired by the PhotoVoice community participatory research methodology, we invite you to select one or two photos to share during our reading group meeting on 9 November 2020 at 5pm PT/8pm ET.  What image comes to your mind as you completed the reading for this event (What Infrastructure Assumes, linked here)?   How might the image(s)  illuminate issues related to critical infrastructure? Feel free to explore these starter-kits on critical infrastructure studies.  We look forward to meeting you and hearing your stories about the photographs that you selected.  Please submit the photo to this folder labeled with your last name_firstname_title/description_datetaken (year, month, and day in digits e.g. 20201109 for Nov. 9, 2020). Register here.