I’m Christian Anderson—an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersections of human geography, urban studies, cultural studies, science and technology studies, and critical social thought. In previous work, my primary mode has been ethnographic. I'm increasingly interested in practicing place-based collaborative methods (including oral histories, mapping and geo-visual methods, and other qualitative approaches) within different contexts and structures of community-embedded collective study and knowledge production. Across all of my work, the abiding aim is to understand how ordinary people’s everyday lives, routine practices, relations, and taken for granted or ‘common sense’ conceptions of the world interconnect with broader formations of culture, power, social reproduction, and political economy and to experiment with conscientious place-based processes and protocols through which different conceptions, practices, relations, formations, and futures might emerge.

A copy of my curriculum vitae is available here.

A more detailed statement about the ideas and concerns at the center of my work is available here

This website is my own small attempt to make up for the often fragmented and inaccessible character of academic production and scholarly work, the products of which are so often broken up in bits and pieces behind subscription paywalls, scattered across different institutional settings and professional moments, and/or not as legible as they could be for people they may hope to reach. By detailing the different pieces of my work, presenting them together, and laying out some of the ideas and connections that cut across them and animate everything I do, I hope this website might help facilitate deeper connections as well as new engagements with people thinking about related things. If that’s you, let’s be in conversation!