ABSTRACT
With the rise of the environmental humanities, new methodological practices have emerged: both from the interdisciplinary conversations it has encouraged, and from the need to find ways of addressing questions that have traditionally been seen as outside the scope of the humanities. Goralnik’s work shares similarities with the idea of field philosophy more synonymous with the writings of Robert Frodeman, Adam Briggle, and J. Britt Holbrook. Parallel and complementary understandings of philosophical fieldwork have been advanced under different names. Rabinow elaborates an anthropology of the contemporary that incorporates movement and change, and pays particular attention to distinctive sites of experience, a particularly conceptual and philosophical mode of anthropology that associates experience, experimentation, ethics, and ethos in search of new forms of flourishing.
