Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene
1st Edition
Published on 31. December 2018
312 pages
978-1-4780-0256-7 (ISBN)
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The contributors chart the shifting conceptions of environment, infrastructure, and both human and nonhuman life in the face of widespread uncertainty about the planet's future.
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Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene
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Duke University Press
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Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene
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Duke University Press
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Kregg Hetherington is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University and the author of Guerrilla Auditors: The Politics of Transparency in Neoliberal Paraguay, also published by Duke University Press.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Keywords of the Anthropocene / Kregg Hetherington 1
Part I. Reckoning with Ground
1. The Underground as Infrastructure? Water, Figure/Ground Reversals, and Dissolution in Sardinal / Andrea Ballestero 17
2. Clandestine Infrastructures: Illicit Connectivities in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands / Shaylih Muehlmann 45
3. The Metropolis: The Infrastructure of the Anthropocene / Gastón Gordillo 66
Part II: Lively Infrastructures
4. Dirty Landscapes: How Weediness Indexes State Disinvestment and Global Disconnection / Ashley Carse 97
5. From Edenic Apocalypse to Gardens against Eden: Plants and People in and after the Anthropocene / Natasha Myers 115
6. Leaking Lines / Nikhil Anand 149
Part III: Histories of Progress
7. Low Tide: Submerged Humanism in a Colombian Port / Austin Zeiderman 171
8. Oysterstructure: Infrastructure, Profanation, and the Sacred Figure of the Human / Stephanie Wakefield & Bruce Braun 193
9. Here Comes the Sun?: Experimenting with Cambodian Energy Infrastructures / Casper Bruun Jensen 216
10. The Crisis in Crisis / Joseph Masco 236
References 261
Contributors 293
Index 297
Introduction. Keywords of the Anthropocene / Kregg Hetherington 1
Part I. Reckoning with Ground
1. The Underground as Infrastructure? Water, Figure/Ground Reversals, and Dissolution in Sardinal / Andrea Ballestero 17
2. Clandestine Infrastructures: Illicit Connectivities in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands / Shaylih Muehlmann 45
3. The Metropolis: The Infrastructure of the Anthropocene / Gastón Gordillo 66
Part II: Lively Infrastructures
4. Dirty Landscapes: How Weediness Indexes State Disinvestment and Global Disconnection / Ashley Carse 97
5. From Edenic Apocalypse to Gardens against Eden: Plants and People in and after the Anthropocene / Natasha Myers 115
6. Leaking Lines / Nikhil Anand 149
Part III: Histories of Progress
7. Low Tide: Submerged Humanism in a Colombian Port / Austin Zeiderman 171
8. Oysterstructure: Infrastructure, Profanation, and the Sacred Figure of the Human / Stephanie Wakefield & Bruce Braun 193
9. Here Comes the Sun?: Experimenting with Cambodian Energy Infrastructures / Casper Bruun Jensen 216
10. The Crisis in Crisis / Joseph Masco 236
References 261
Contributors 293
Index 297
