Structured Analytics

This question set was created by Zoe Friese, an undergraduate thesis researcher at Tulane University, to investigate transnational alliances among activists resisting Formosa Plastics Group.  

Question set to guide analysis of how new knowledge is sparked and moved into governance (not always in positive ways). 

This structured analytic is designed for analyzing planning and policy documents that address climate change.

These questions are designed to help draw out the dynamics of COVID communications in different places.

Questions to direct shared analysis of education and expertise in/and COVID-19. 

This question set supports a Transnational Disaster STS COVID-19 Project Collaboration Call on Thursday, June 11, 2020. 

Question set to guide collaborative analysis and interpretation of many types of disaster, in a comparative frame. 

Question set to guide collaborative analysis and interpretation of diverse stakeholders in disaster. 

Question set to guide the design of disaster archives. 

Question set to guide the design of critical events to advance disaster justice. 

This analytic framework will be used to draw out and compare different articulations of "just transition."  

This series of ten questions draws out local details in a manner that encourages comparison with other places. Research using the questions is often done quickly (within the constraints of a quarter-long undergraduate class, for example) so is limited to and points to the need for further research and community engagement. The goal is to help build both a body of research on environmental injustice and a network of researchers ready to help conceptualize and implement next-generation environmental protections. 

Questions for analyzing a meeting, interview, or other event. 

Petro-ghosts are meant to signify the way that any mode of resistance to petro-racial capitalist culture must be developed from the "inside," making use of the extant technologies/infrastructures, social structures, discourses, value systems, and political dynamics that have enabled and supported the same racial and fossil-fueled systems that we are seeking to deconstruct and dismantle. As a result, all of our available modes, practices, strategies, etc. of resistance will be "haunted," carrying over remnants of petro-racial infrastructures, habits of thought and experience, relations of power, or modes of relating to others, that will be working against us.

Thus, this analytic is designed to enable researchers to appreciate the different (techno-political, social, epistemic, ethical) forms that such "petro-ghosts" can take, so that we can begin to examine different forms or strategies of working towards environmental justice and tease out any undesired reproductions of petro-racial capitalist culture. The idea here is to infrastructure "transversal" thinking, or thinking across the strengths and weaknesses of multiple and diverse modes of resistance. Because, while any particular mode of resistance to petro-racial capitalism must take shape in reference to (and therefore, at least partially reproduce) that which it resists, the precise dynamics of petro-racial capitalism that each approach upholds or manages to break away from will be different. This means that studying and thinking transversally, at the scale of the relations across these modes of resistance, increases our chances of engendering deeper, more radical breaks from the systems we wish to resist.

This question set can be used to interrogate the dynamics of energy transition at the intersection of nano, bio, and deutero scales. The set can also be used in combination with the Techno-political Ecology, Social Ecology, and Epistemic Ecology question sets to better understand "energy transition" as a "focal point of experience." (See Foucault's The Government of Self and Others).

This question set can be used to interrogate the dynamics of energy transition at the intersection of geo, eco/atmo, and techno scales. The set can also be used in combination with the Social Ecology, Epistemic Ecology, and Ethical Ecology question sets to better understand "energy transition" as a "focal point of experience." (See Foucault's The Government of Self and Others).

These are a set of questions developed for a literature review.

Questions to support analysis of my fieldnotes for research project on water infrastructures and the communities of Urequío, Michoacán, Mexico, and Wilmington and Long Beach, California, United States.

This question set supports efforts to understand PECE users by the PECE Design Group, the Disaster-STS Network Design Group and various Disaster-STS projects that run on the platform. 

Reading critical work on corporate social responsibility.

My goal is to write a synthetic piece as part of my comprehensive exams. 

This question set aims to analyze the relationship between the production of materials and fuel from oil and the production of technology. The goal is to establish the nature of this relationship, in order to inform environmental movements on the exact effect of technology centric forms of 'greening'.

This is a general structured analytic for the Quotidian Anthropocene project that can be utilized for annotating Field Campus specific readings.

The Open Seminar will direct collaborative attention to the many scales and types of systems that interlace and synergize to produce anthropocenics on the ground in particular locales and vernanculars. These questions will guide our engagements.

This set of questions will be help focus shared reading of Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann's Climate Leviathan - bringing together people in overlapping collaborations (focused on environmental governance, Transnational STS, Quotidian Anthropocenes, Visualizing Toxic Places , and COVID-19).