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.
Author(s): Dimitris Papadopoulos, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Maddalena Tacchetti
Series: Dis-positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STS
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 461
City: Bristol
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<>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
References
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
References
3 The False Bay Coast of Cape Town: A Critical Zone
Anthropocenography of a necropolis
A reparative ecology?
Notes
References
Part II Deskilling<>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
Notes
References
5 Fab Cities as Infrastructures for Ecological Reparation: Maker Activism, Vernacular Skills and Prototypes for Self-Grounding Collective Life
Introduction
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
Notes
References
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
Notes
References
Part III Contaminating<>Cohabiting
7 Multispecies Mending from Micro to Macro: Biome Restoration, Carbon Recycling and Ecologies of Participation
Mending microbiomes
Mending carbon cycles
Ecologies of participation
Notes
Acknowledgements
References
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
Notes
Acknowledgements
References
9 From Museum to MoB
Part IV Enclosing<>Reclaiming Land
10 Land in Our Names: Building an Anti-Racist Food Movement
Notes
11 Land Reparations and Ecological Justice: An Interview with Sam Siva
Notes
12 Waste, Improvement and Repair on Ireland’s Peat Bogs
Introduction
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
Conclusion
References
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
Notes
References
14 ‘Obedecer a la Vida’: Environmental Citizenship Otherwise?
Roberto and Arnovis’ life trajectory
Reconfiguring environmental citizenship
No end
Notes
References
Part V Loss<>Recollecting
15 Travelling Memories: Repairing the Past and Imagining the Future in Medium-Secure Forensic Psychiatric Care
Introduction
An expanded view of memory
Forensic psychiatric care
Memorial practices
Memorial work as ecological repair
Note
Acknowledgements
References
16 Conversations on Benches
Introduction
Dilapidation and austerity
In praise of public objects
On holding and being held
‘I’ll go first’: caring infrastructures
Notes
Acknowledgements
References
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
Notes
References
Part VI Representing<>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
Notes
References
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
Note
References
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
Notes
References
Part VII Isolating<>Embodying
21 (Un)crafting Ecologies: Actions Involving Special Skills at (Un)making Things Humans with Your hands
Instructions to read
Note
References
22 Cultivating Attention to Fragility: The Sensible Encounters of Maintenance
Sensorial explorations
Ecologies of fragility
Thinking with maintenance
Acknowledgements
References
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
References
Part VIII Growth<>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
Acknowledgements
References
25 Being Affected by Páramo: Maps, Landscape Drawings and a Risky Science
Introduction
Delimitation and scale
Páramo landscapes: inaccurate materials
Body maps and body affect
Being affected by páramo
Notes
Acknowledgements
References
26 Ordinary Hope
Hope and social theory
Hope, vertical and horizontal
Hope and worldmaking
Hope, loss and struggle
Hope, method and critique
Conclusion
Note
References
Index
