https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708620912803 Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 1–13 © 2020 SAGE Publications Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/1532708620912803 journals.sagepub.com/home/csc Original Article The problem of (in) sustainability associated with the idea that the environment is reaching its limit has presented itself as the crisis of our time. The approach of the subject as the Anthropocene challenge has generated the most diverse environmental risk management strategies. In some, there is certain effectiveness and positive impact on society, such as public nature conservation policies. On the other hand, there are also certain opportunistic deviations, supported by favorable publicity. It is also a time of severe criticism of the military’s behavior and commitment to environmental problems. So, in this disruption circumstances, there is an opportu- nity to share experiences that encompass a practical fusion of my methodology to coexist in the academic universe as an agent aware of the changes of my time: my biggest moti- vation to carry on this autoethnographic essay paper. Wondering what is a worthy cause to be involved in this crisis context? I try to familiarize myself with the signifi- cance of the digital age, a time when people value how many “likes” one gets and symbols of status and futility that will have little lasting meaning for them and their descen- dants, contrary to Brundtland Report (World Commission on Environment and Development [WCED], 1987). Another question would be, as an offshoot of my first ques- tion: how to alleviate the environmental crisis with the best possible participation of all and with the maximum effec- tiveness and safety possible, gathering human resources, knowledge, and materials to face the adversities and return- ing safe from the entropy of the nature and the cultural human being himself? So the question suggested my post- doctoral activity. Thus, such questions led to the conception of this other experience-based study, which focuses on giving people a real sociological and anthropological sense of participation in shared responsibility for political decisions and processes to build a generation of “sustainable and credible” people (my emphasis), true, able to share, trustworthy, ethical and human sensitive nonhuman sharers; that can draw hope on the basis of the generation of compatible and critical com- petencies brought to the scenarios of change that will com- promise the future of the next generations. The curiosity of understanding, approaching, and the taste for the appreciation of nature was passed on to me by my paternal grandparents, small landowners in southern Brazil, precisely in the Rio Grande do Sul, a land occupied by hordes of European immigrants. On their property, they transformed plant and animal products into wonderful and 912803CSC XX X 10.1177/1532708620912803Cultural Studies <span class="symbol" cstyle="symbol">↔</span> Critical Methodologiesde Andrade Júnior research-article 2020 1 Catholic University, Braga, Portugal 2 University of Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain Corresponding Author: Hermes de Andrade Júnior, Avenida Doutor Antonio Ribeiro Guimarães, 933, Vila Verde, Braga, 4730-715 Portugal. Email: handradejunior@gmail.com Autoethnography (Military, Environment) as Transdisciplinarization in Anthropocene Times Hermes de Andrade Júnior 1,2 Abstract The problem of (in) sustainability associated with the idea that the environment is reaching its limit, presented itself as the crisis of our time and as the challenge of the Anthropocene. Seeking to deepen the discussion on military thinking about the environment, this essayistic autoethnography is designed in three parts: (a) the autoethnography; (b) presentation of some experiences called episodes, as they are the circumstances of the researcher; and (c) considerations about a transdisciplinary process in the military milieu toward an environmental epistemology. Military personnel need environmental education as epistemological support in the absence of deep ecological awareness. Even with the environmental training of using nature as a resource, military personnel may have professional skills adapted to environmental competence for crisis prevention and aggravation (transdisciplinary). However, anthropocentric military thinking is a cultural barrier. Further study of a military epistemology must be undertaken to achieve a possibly balanced and mitigated position. Keywords autoethnography, military culture, transdisciplinarity, environmental competence, environmental crisis