Luka Dowell
Writer, podcaster, and independent scholar affiliated with the Institute for Social Ecology. Examining interactions between texts and audiences, with an emphasis on how we approach the future.
“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”
- David Graeber
Current Project: an Ethnography of Solarpunk
"Water-street" by Dustin Jacobus is licensed under CC BY 4.0 / background removed from original
I started my podcast to build connections between the artistic and activist sides of solarpunk. As a researcher, I seek to understand the ways in which others discover and engage with solarpunk. The format for data collection is ethnographic fieldwork, a type of research used by anthropologists to learn how a community makes sense of itself and its relationships to the rest of the world. This particular project is an “insider ethnography,” where the researcher (me!) studies their own community.