Josh Lepawsky
About
I research and write about how the ecologies of electronics might be arranged differently for a more habitable world.
Electronic ecologies include all the people, places, and things that need to be arranged together for electronics to be made and to work. They also include all the pollution and other discards that result from those arrangements.
Electronics are potent allegories. They chart dreams of habitable futures and nightmares of social and ecological breakdown. My interest is in finding ways to live well together in the permanently polluted and always breaking worlds of electronics.
Professionally, I work as a geographer inside and outside of academia. I have more than 25 years of research and teaching experience in geographic analysis using qualitative and quantitative methods–from ethnography to cartography, to data visualization, community asset mapping, and GIS.
I offer environmentally grounded research and training for people and organizations with interests in the tech sector.