● Ecologize

David Morgan

My research brings multinatural ontologies into generative tension with positivist epistemologies in order to ecologize institutional practices at a granular level, specifically in the close reading and (re)writing of environmental policy. It is not sufficient, in my view, to analyze more-than-human entanglements without regard to the institutional complexes that play an outsized role in shaping them. I focus on local planning, policy, regulations, and management guidance pertaining to urban ecosystems and identify changes that codify practices that are affirmative of ontological heterogeneity and care.

Title Medium Month Year
Reflections on a Bioblitz: Notes Toward an Ecologized Technics Book Chapter Forthcoming
Climate Refugia in the EPA Southeast New England Program Region Report September 2021
Reworlding Environmental Policy Article October 2020
Multispecies Planning: Locating Non-human Entanglements in Oyster Restoration Policy on the Massachusetts Coast Thesis May 2019
Oysterscapes: Determining the Suitability of Oyster Reef Restoration in Massachusetts Bay Poster October 2018
City of Boston Local Wetlands Ordinance Law August 2018