{"id":12376,"date":"2026-07-14T08:40:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/?p=12376"},"modified":"2026-07-27T18:38:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:38:28","slug":"complicating-risk-in-the-anthropocene-tracing-riskscapes-across-temporal-and-spatial-scales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/complicating-risk-in-the-anthropocene-tracing-riskscapes-across-temporal-and-spatial-scales\/","title":{"rendered":"Complicating Risk in the Anthropocene: Tracing Riskscapes Across Temporal and Spatial Scales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tim Amidon, Professional Writing &amp; Rhetoric<br>February 16, 12:30pm<br>Galanti Lounge, Carothers Library &amp; Livestreamed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drawing from Amidon&#8217;s recent monograph, <em>Undermining Risk in Technical Communication: Extractive Industry, Cascading Disaster, and the Global Climate Crisis<\/em> (SUNY Press, 2026 with Donnie Sackey, Ehren Pflugfelder, and Dan Richards), his talk will forward a pair of concepts, riskscape (Muller-Mahn &amp; 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.<\/p>\n\n\n<script>\nvar gform;gform||(document.addEventListener(\"gform_main_scripts_loaded\",function(){gform.scriptsLoaded=!0}),document.addEventListener(\"gform\/theme\/scripts_loaded\",function(){gform.themeScriptsLoaded=!0}),window.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){gform.domLoaded=!0}),gform={domLoaded:!1,scriptsLoaded:!1,themeScriptsLoaded:!1,isFormEditor:()=>\"function\"==typeof InitializeEditor,callIfLoaded:function(o){return!(!gform.domLoaded||!gform.scriptsLoaded||!gform.themeScriptsLoaded&&!gform.isFormEditor()||(gform.isFormEditor()&&console.warn(\"The use of 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