Alex Chambers teaches radio and podcasting at the Indiana University Media School. He’s also a 2019-2020 organizing fellow with We Own It, working to re-energize democratic participation in rural electric cooperatives. Alex Chambers teaches radio and podcasting at the Indiana University Media School. He’s also a 2019-2020 organizing fellow with We Own It, working to re-energize democratic participation in rural electric cooperatives.
His poetry book, Binding: A Preparation, came out in December 2019. His next book project, Climate Violence and the Poetics of Refuge, is based on his dissertation. Through literary and cultural productions of the early twenty-first century, the book explores climate dispossession by listening to the ways history haunts. Rather than recuperating buried social movements or illuminating struggles over policy, Climate Violence traces the poetics of social-ecological life at the margins of survival to explore the tensions between fear and desire, survival and freedom, the pull of infrastructure alongside the necessity of escape.
Alex is also involved with the non-profit organization, We Own It.
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