Capacity through Care

The sobering environmental and social challenges of the twenty-first century, challenges that face (and link) little cultures and fragile creatures across the implacable Anthropocene, must be met by an academy made capable—in every sense of that open-handed word. It is vital that we take a more capacious view of our history and possible futures and that we organize ourselves to work effectively, simultaneously, and in deep empathy and interconnection with other fields and disciplines across multiple, varied scales. Happily, new datasets and technologies position scholars to discover, interpret, and build on an understanding that has been long desired in