Introduction: Naturecultural imagination in the times of environmental damage.- Approaching infrastructural being.- Anticipatory Infrastructures, Emerging Technologies and Visions of Energy Futures.- Assembling Wild Nature: Icelandic Wildness as a Natureculture Meshwork.- The Social Class and Lifestyle Embeddedness of Being Within Energy Infrastructures.- Circular economy as infrastructural change - waste citizenship in the bin.- Everyday infrastructures of care: unmaking waste through repairing and composting.- The Biosphere and the Garden: Nature as Infrastructure?.- Afterword: Some unintentional consequences of infrastructure.
Author(s): Jarno Valkonen, Veera Kinnunen, Heikki Huilaja
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 216
City: Cham
Preface
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Part I Opening Wor(l)ds
1 Introduction
Naturecultural Imagination in Times of Environmental Damage
References
2 Approaching Infrastructural Being
Naturecultural Approach to Infrastructures
Infrastructural Being as Metabolism
Politics of Metabolism
More-Than-Human Politics
Conclusion
References
Part II Future-Making
3 Anticipatory Infrastructures, Emerging Technologies and Visions of Energy Futures
Introduction
Infrastructures as Anticipatory Devices
Visions of Automation as Anticipatory Infrastructures
Integrating Distributed Energy Resources
Load-Shifting
Energy Market and Price Motivations
Questioning Anticipatory Infrastructures
Automated Futures Visions as Ethnographic Sites
Laundry as a Contingent Practice and Ethics of Care
Solar Optimisation, Gamification and Everyday Ethics
Automated Systems and Everyday Irregularities
Towards the Ethics of Automation as Anticipatory Infrastructure
References
4 Assembling Wild Nature: Icelandic Wildness as a Natureculture Meshwork
Introduction
Before the Journey
The Golden Circle
First Stop: Thingvellir
Second Stop: Geysir
Third Stop: Gullfoss
After the Journey
References
Part III Naturecultural Citizenship
5 The Social Class and Lifestyle Embeddedness of Being Within Energy Infrastructures
Introduction: Energy Infrastructures as Class Positioning
Class, Habitus, and Lifestyle Groups
The Empirical Case and Data
Class, Habitus, and Infrastructural Being
Differentiating Life Chances
Embedded in Lifestyle Groups
Durable Materiality
Action Orienting
Conclusion
References
6 Circular Economy as Infrastructural Change: Waste Citizenship in the Bin
Introduction
Waste Infrastructure and Its Transformation Through CE
Mundane Governance with the Bin
Relational Agency of the Bin
Symbolic Agency of the Bin
Material Agency of the Bin
Conclusion
References
Part IV Care and Compassion
7 From Waste Management to Waste Care
Introduction
More-Than-Human Infrastructures of Care
Smart Infrastructures in Rural Aged Care: Trialling a Robot Vacuum Cleaner in Homes of Older Adults
Multiple Infrastructures of Care
Bokashi as an Urban Infrastructure of Waste Care
Bokashi as an Infrastructural Ecology of Care
Infra-Ecologies of Waste Care
Conclusion
References
8 The Biosphere and the Garden: Nature as Infrastructure?
Introduction: Layers of Human Livelihood
The Big Picture: Humanity in the Biosphere
A Focus on Specifics: The Garden
Human Practices in Communication with Nature
Connecting the Threads: Infrastructures of Human Livelihood
References
Part V Afterwor(l)ds
9 Afterword: Some Unintentional Consequences of Infrastructure
References
Index