Dr. Michelle Bastian

Biography

Michelle Bastian works in the areas of critical time studies and environmental humanities, focusing on time-keeping practices in the context of the climate crisis. Her research develops humanities approaches to phenology, the scientific study of the life-cycle timing of plants, animals, and environments. Michelle has published extensively in journals including Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, GeoHumanities, and Theory, Culture & Society. She is the editor of several collections, including 'Social Life of Time' and 'Field Philosophy Experiments'. Michelle is the founder of the Temporal Belongings Network and has contributed to the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network. She teaches courses related to environmental humanities and supervises PhD students on topics such as critical time studies and extinction studies. Her work seeks to challenge conventional constructions of time by bridging philosophy and social sciences with design.

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