Miami Forever: urbanism in the back loop
Funding period: 1 July 2018 – 1 July 2021
Type of funding:
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Stephanie Wakefield is an urban geographer whose work critically analyzes the technical, political, and philosophical transformations of urban life in the Anthropocene. She is currently Assistant Professor and Director of the Human Ecology program at Life University, where is designing a new experiential learning-based undergraduate degree for the Anthropocene. Prior to joining Life, she was an Urban Studies Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow based at Florida International University. She is the author of Anthropocene Back Loop: Experimentation in Unsafe Operating Space and co-editor of Resilience in the Anthropocene: Governance and Politics at the End of the World. She is now completing a new book, The City in the Anthropocene: Resilience, Infrastructure, and Imagination at Miami’s End, which critically explores experimental sea rise adaptations in Miami, Florida and, through these, suggests new limits and possibilities for critical urban theory and practice in the age of climate change.
This project was also supported with the follow-up Knowledge Mobilisation Award grant Building new urban skills in the Anthropocene.