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Ecological Reparation
How do we engage with the threat of social and environmental degradation while creating and maintaining liveable and just worlds? Researchers from diverse backgrounds unpack this question through a series of original and committed contributions to this wide-ranging volume. The authors explore practices of repairing damaged ecologies across different locations and geographies and offer innovative insights for the conservation, mending, care and empowerment of human and nonhuman ecologies. This ground-breaking collection establishes ecological reparation as an urgent and essential topic of public and scholarly debate.
The Work of Repair
In the timber plantations in northeastern South Africa, laborers work long hours among tall, swaying lines of eucalypts, on land once theirs. In 2008, at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis, timber corporations distributed hot cooked meals as a nutrition intervention to bolster falling productivity and profits. But life and sustenance are about much more than calories and machinic bodies. What is at stake is the nurturing of capacity across all domains of life—physical, relational, cosmological—in the form of amandla. An Nguni word meaning power, strength or capacity, amandla organizes ordinary concerns with one’s abilities to earn a wage, to strengthen one’s body, and to take care of ...
Housing, Urban Commons and the Right to the City in Post-Crisis Rome
This book tells the story of Metropoliz, a vacant salami factory located in the Eastern periphery of Rome (Italy) that was squatted in 2009 by homeless households with the cooperation of the Housing Rights Movement Blocchi Precari Metropolitani, and progressively reconverted into the house and museum spaces that form the Città Meticcia (the mestizo city). Through a vivid activist-ethnographic account, Margherita Grazioli suggests that Metropoliz exemplifies a practice of grassroots urban regeneration that speaks to the conflicted reconfiguration of real estate urban regimes in a post-crisis, post-neoliberal scenario. Using the contentious reappropriation of housing as a point of departure for claiming manifold rights, Metropoliz represents an alternative model of urbanity and habitation that will inspire contemporary urban social movements concerned with the demand of the ‘right to the city’, as well as those concerned with the ontology of the urban commons.
3D Printing Cultures, Politics and Hackerspaces
This book appreciably contributes to growing debates within Science and Technology Studies concerned with cultural politics, the emergence of citizen science and civil society interventions in shaping technology. By drawing on fieldwork data, Savvides examines the bourgeoning 3D printing culture in Hackerspaces, Makerspaces and Fab Labs.
Reactivating Elements
The contributors to Reactivating Elements examine chemicals as they mix with soil, air, water, and fire to shape Earth's troubled ecologies today. They invoke the elements with all their ambivalences as chemical categories, material substances, social forms, forces and energies, cosmological entities, and epistemic objects. Engaging with the nonlinear historical significance of elemental thought across fields—chemistry, the biosciences, engineering, physics, science and technology studies, the environmental humanities, ecocriticism, and cultural studies—the contributors examine the relationship between chemistry and ecology, probe the logics that render wind as energy, excavate affective...
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Von Fliegenfängern und Katzenklappen
Teddybär, Weinkeller, Spinnenfäden und andere »Kleinigkeiten« erzählen von den Beziehungen zwischen den Arten, die unser (Zusammen-)Leben ausmachen Von den vielfältigen Beziehungen zwischen den Arten erzählen in diesem interdisziplinären Buch unter anderem ein flauschiger Teddybär, ein kühler Weinkeller und klebrige Spinnenfäden. Ausgehend von oft unscheinbaren Akteur:innen wird gezeigt, wie das naturkulturelle Verhältnis von mehr-als-menschlichen Gesellschaften fortlaufend neu bestimmt und gestaltet wird. Die Autor:innen schlagen vor, menschliche Sichtweisen zu dezentrieren und sich für das Eigenleben anderer Arten zu öffnen. Dabei nutzen sie die Brillen ihrer jeweiligen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen, um über diese hinauszublicken und weiterführende Perspektiven aufzuzeigen.
Zur Kolonialität von Kupfer
Ab 1893 begann die deutsche Kolonialmacht mit der Enteignung der Erz- und Mineralvermögen in Tsumeb im Norden des heutigen Namibia. Die florierende überregionale Kupferökonomie zwischen Haiǁom, Damara und Aawambo wurde sukzessive durch den Rohstoff-Frontier unterwandert. In drei Kapiteln betrachtet Noam Gramlich koloniale Kontinuitäten anhand von Fotografien, toxischen Überresten des Kupferabbaus und der weißen Ignoranz gegenüber afrikanischer Technologie. Im Anschluss an mediengeologische Ansätze zu Infrastrukturen, Elektroschrott und Extraktionsorten werden Vorstellungen von medialer Konnektivität herausgefordert und untersucht, wie die unscheinbare Kategorie des Rohstoffs in koloniale Prozesse von Rassifizierung und Vergeschlechtlichung eingelassen ist. Vor dem Hintergrund der Lücken im Kolonialarchiv steht die Suche nach alternativen Wissensarchiven im Zentrum. Aus einer weißen Perspektive erprobt die Studie ein verkörpertes und spekulatives Schreiben, das anti-koloniale, queere und feministische Perspektiven auf Kupfer vereint, um Möglichkeiten anti-extraktivistischer Widerstände, Vulnerabilitäten, Allianzen und Widersprüche zu thematisieren.
