Tim Amidon, Professional Writing & Rhetoric
February 16, 12:30pm
Galanti Lounge, Carothers Library & Livestreamed

Drawing from Amidon’s recent monograph, Undermining Risk in Technical Communication: Extractive Industry, Cascading Disaster, and the Global Climate Crisis (SUNY Press, 2026 with Donnie Sackey, Ehren Pflugfelder, and Dan Richards), his talk will forward a pair of concepts, riskscape (Muller-Mahn & Everts, 2012) and timescape (Adam, 1998), that we have operationalized within an original methodology to re temporalize and -spatialize the epistemological dimensions of risk. In particular, Amidon discusses how these concepts allowed us to complicate the method of case study, as applied to distinct environmental crises in the Colorado River Basin, to not only think across micro-, meso-, and macroscopic frames, but also to illuminate opportunities for orienting and acting differently to the challenges associated with extractive industry and colonial legacies.