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This talk surveys ten collaborative communities from around the globe that form the Intersecting Energy Cultures (IEC) Working Group, convened by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities founding director, Dr. Bethany Wiggin, and Dr. Rebecca Macklin at the University of Aberdeen.Â
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The IEC working group brings together researchers working with community-based partners to develop deeper understanding of the varied and uneven impacts stemming from the international workings of energy industries. It considers how communities become caught in the middle of multiple and historically overlapping forms of energy production, often amplifying existing social and economic vulnerabilities.Â
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Developed through the experimental rubric of environmental humanities, the working group explores the ways that arts-driven and humanistic methods of inquiry enable us to carry out meaningful community-based, participatory research around historic, contemporary and future relations with sites of energy production. Drawing on the project's preliminary findings, we will consider questions fundamental to fostering and maintaining research partnerships beyond university settings: How can these partnerships be mutually beneficial? What methods facilitate cross-sector, transdisciplinary inquiry? What kinds of project outcomes are possible and desirable?Â
Part of the Planet Texas 2050 Resilience Roundtable series,
Academic-Community Partnerships for Adaptation and Resilience.Â
Below are links to three videos Dr. Wiggins showed during her presentation.
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An Introduction to IEC
https://intersectingenergycultures.org/2024/07/16/an-introduction-to-iec/Â
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Calling hours
https://intersectingenergycultures.org/2024/7/16/calling-hours/Â
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No aire, no te vendas. Energy Sovereignty and Collective Creation in the Context of the
Eolic Parks in la Guajira
Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the
Environment and Humanities, 2024-2025
Princeton University
Founding Director, Penn Program in Environmental Humanities
University of Pennsylvania
Bethany Wiggin is currently the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and Humanities at Princeton University while on leave from her position as Professor in the Department of French and Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. From 2014-24, she served as the Founding Director of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities. Her scholarship explores histories of migration, language, and cultural translation since the Columbian exchange across the north Atlantic world; she is currently completing the monograph Utopia Found and Lost in Penn’s Woods while also laying groundwork for a new transatlantic project on energy infrastructure and anti-fossil fuel networks. Simultaneously, she is at work on special issues on Environmental Futures and on Arts-Driven Methods for Energy Justice. She holds research to be a human right and regularly leads public research projects designed to connect academic and community expertise for environmental and climate repair. These projects have been supported by (selected) the National Geographic, Whiting, and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations and include: Intersecting Energy Cultures, An Ecotopian Toolkit for the Anthropocene, Data Refuge, Futures Beyond Refining, and My Climate Story (selected). She has offered testimony about project findings to audiences ranging from school children, to the City Council of Philadelphia, the U.S. Congress, and UNESCO.Â
