Ecological reparation : repair, remediation and resurgence in social and environmental conflict / Dimitris Papadopoulos, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, and Maddalena Tacchetti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Papadopoulos, Dimitris, author.

Puig de la Bellacasa, María, author.

Tacchetti, Maddalena, author.

Series:

Dis-Positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STS

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecological assessment (Biology).

Ecological disturbances.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (463 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol University Press 2023

Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, [2023]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Cover

Series information

Ecological Reparation: Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict

Copyright information

Table of contents

List of figures

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Note on the Figures

Dis-Positions Series Preface

Introduction: No Justice, No Ecological Peace: The Groundings of Ecological Reparation

Ecologies, repair, justice

Ecological reparation as transformative movement

Overview

References

Part I Depletion&lt

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Resurgence

1 Experiments in Situ: Soil Repair Practices as Part of Place-Based Action for Change in El Salvador

Introduction

Permaculture as ecological repair

Compost as experimental food security practice in El Salvador

Commoning, experiment and experience in practice

Conclusion

Notes

2 Hesitant: Three Theses on Ecological Reparation (Otherwise)

Thesis #1: Ecological reparation is to account for spectres

Thesis #2: Ecological reparation is about (unthinkable) politics

Thesis #3: Ecological reparation is the restitution of abundance

3 The False Bay Coast of Cape Town: A Critical Zone

Anthropocenography of a necropolis

A reparative ecology?

Part II Deskilling&lt

Experimenting

4 Reflections on a Mending Ecology through Pastures for Life

Mending stories

A broken ecology

Broken world thinking

'And that's made us change things'

'We had to learn to utilize our grass better'

Reflections on a mending ecology

5 Fab Cities as Infrastructures for Ecological Reparation: Maker Activism, Vernacular Skills and Prototypes for Self-Grounding Collective Life

Fab Labs and the political vision of self-manufacturing

The Fab City: the vision of material and data circulation.

Prototypes: being part of the yet-to-come

Conclusion: self-grounding public and infrastructures for ecological reparation

6 The Cosmoecological Workshop: Or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer

Introduction: a metaphysical catastrophe

'Consolation for the Spirits': repair and the aporetics of reparation

The cosmoecological workshop: spiritual care out of a broken world

Part III Contaminating&lt

Cohabiting

7 Multispecies Mending from Micro to Macro: Biome Restoration, Carbon Recycling and Ecologies of Participation

Mending microbiomes

Mending carbon cycles

Ecologies of participation

8 Involvement as an Ethics for More than Human Interdependencies

Reparation (and repair, remediation, restoration …)

Air reparation

Ecological (interdependency and involvement)

Thinking through an experimental air pollution remediation project

Building Yellow Dust, or how water took over

Modes of involvement of water and air (and others)

Involvement as ethics

9 From Museum to MoB

Part IV Enclosing&lt

Reclaiming Land

10 Land in Our Names: Building an Anti-Racist Food Movement

11 Land Reparations and Ecological Justice: An Interview with Sam Siva

12 Waste, Improvement and Repair on Ireland's Peat Bogs

From mine to sink: a brief history of making bogs productive

Temporalities of repair: bog commons, ecologies and modernity

Bog commons

Bog ecologies

Bog modernity

13 New Peasantries in Italy: Eco-Commons, Agroecology and Food Communities

The agroecology of Genuino Clandestino

Returns

From the farm to the city

The eco-commons of Mondeggi

References.

14 'Obedecer a la Vida': Environmental Citizenship Otherwise?

Roberto and Arnovis' life trajectory

Reconfiguring environmental citizenship

No end

Part V Loss&lt

Recollecting

15 Travelling Memories: Repairing the Past and Imagining the Future in Medium-Secure Forensic Psychiatric Care

An expanded view of memory

Forensic psychiatric care

Memorial practices

Memorial work as ecological repair

Note

16 Conversations on Benches

Dilapidation and austerity

In praise of public objects

On holding and being held

'I'll go first': caring infrastructures

17 Curating Reparation and Recrafting Solidarity in Post-Accord Colombia

Entanglements of injustice

Curating memorials of state crimes

Re-crafting paper

Curating and recrafting: reparation and solidarity

Part VI Representing&lt

Self-governing

18 Commons-Based Mending Ecologies

Commons and the ecological repair

R-Urban: a model of commons-based resilience in suburban neighbourhoods

R-Urban hubs' first implementation

Resilience to enclosure

The value of commoning

19 Ri-Maflow: Des-pair, Resistance and Re-pair in an Urban Industrial Ecology

Resistant re-pairs

Ruptures and des-pair

From des-pair to re-pair

Ri-Ma-flowers and their ecology

20 Chilean Streets: An Archive against the Grain of History

Chilean streets, October 2019

El derecho de vivir en paz

The wound unites us

Wounded s-tree-t

Kiltro politics

Kiltro - the force

Daughters of Witches

Kiltra Revolution

#noseborra: an archive against the grain of History

Part VII Isolating&lt

Embodying.

21 (Un)crafting Ecologies: Actions Involving Special Skills at (Un)making Things Humans with Your hands

Instructions to read

22 Cultivating Attention to Fragility: The Sensible Encounters of Maintenance

Sensorial explorations

Ecologies of fragility

Thinking with maintenance

23 Technological Black Boxing versus Ecological Reparation: From Encased-Industrial to Open-Renewable Wind Energy

Retrieving the historical contrast between open and closed wind energy structures

On technological black boxes: between industrial wind turbines and digital computers

Black boxing versus repairing: on ecological reparation

Part VIII Growth&lt

Flourishing

24 Algorithmic Food Justice

Ecological reparation

Algorithmic Food Justice

Understanding blockchain

More-than-human blockchains

Algorithmic Food Justice workshops

Algorithmic imaginaries and the more-than-human

Trying and failing at posthuman design

Workshop 3: Blockchain prototypes

Group 1: The fellowshit of dark matter

Group 2: DAO-n to earth

Group 3: The Corn Council

Attuning to reparative relations

25 Being Affected by Páramo: Maps, Landscape Drawings and a Risky Science

Delimitation and scale

Páramo landscapes: inaccurate materials

Body maps and body affect

Being affected by páramo

26 Ordinary Hope

Hope and social theory

Hope, vertical and horizontal

Hope and worldmaking

Hope, loss and struggle

Hope, method and critique

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

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OCLC:

1370498906