The Anthropocenes Network is an international, transdisciplinary, collaborative network of scholars in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and arts; policy makers; community-based practitioners; and artists committed to developing innovative interventions in environmental research, pedagogy, and policy.
The network provides an infrastructure to pursue theoretical and applied scholarship in dialogue with experts across the disciplines. Affiliated research projects have a strong community-engagement component that ranges from the hyperlocal to the translocal.
The Anthropocenes Network is based at the IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute and has close organizational ties to Newcastle University, UK and Future Earth’s Sustainable Water Future Programme at Griffith University, Australia.
History
The Anthropocenes Network emerged from the work of the Rivers of the Anthropocene (RoA) Project. While RoA initially began as a project focused on freshwater systems, it quickly expanded in scope.
As RoA grew, we increasingly used rivers as a metaphor to discuss the complex ways in which sociobiological and geobiophysical systems were entangled. It was in this context that we created An Anthropocene Primer and the various publications and projects associated with Anthropology of the Anthropocene: Theories, Structures, Practices.
RoA remains a cornerstone project under the umbrella of The Anthropocenes Network—along with other projects including The Anthropocene Household, Museum of the Anthropocene, and Voices from the Waterways.
