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

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.

ISBN-13: 9781529239553

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Bristol University Press

Publication Date: 01-09-2024

Pages: 462

Product Dimensions: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.93d

Series: Dis-positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STS

Dimitris Papadopoulos is Professor of Science, Technology and Society at the University of Nottingham. Maria Puig de la Bellacasa is Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick. Maddalena Tacchetti is Lecturer at the School of Business and Creative Industries at the University of the West of Scotland.

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“This is an inspiring call for creative and careful experimentation to reimagine and recraft possibilities for shared life in difficult times.” Thom van Dooren, University of Sydney

"As fossil capitalism ravages the planet, foregrounding resistant acts of ecological reparation is critical in imagining and realizing system change – to which this book contributes with global reach and interdisciplinary scope." T.J. Demos, University of California, Santa Cruz

"… an expansive and compelling collection, by world-leading and emergent scholars, of the critical importance of ecology and relationality in both theorizing reparative justice and detailing practices of hopeful care." Mark Jackson, University of Bristol

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Table of Contents

Introduction : Dimitris Papadopoulos, María Puig De La Bellacasa and Maddalena Tacchetti Part 1: Depletion: Resurgence Soil Repair Practices As Decolonial Healing? - Naomi Millner Equivocal Reparations: The Labor of Sustainability in Extreme Environments - Manuel Tironi Part 2: Erasing: Listening Time(s) to Listen: A Collection of Asynchronous Experiences - Jaime Patarroyo On the Air’s Political Ecologies - Nerea Calvillo Climate Change and Landscape Futures: Infrastructural Reimagining and the Politics of Repair in Extractive Zones - Patrick Bresnihan Part 3: Deskilling: Experimenting Pastures for Life: Practices and Affects in the Reconfiguring of Dairy and Beef Farming - Claire Waterton Nurturing Capabilities to Reconcile Nature and Infrastructures: DIY Visions, Circular Imagination and Data Ecologies for the Transition to Sustainability - Atsuro Morita The Cosmoecological Workshop: Or, How to Philosophise With a Hammer - Martin Savransky Part 4: Contaminating: Cohabiting Repairing Soils: Mending With Microbes, Plants and Mushrooms - Ursula Münster and Daniel Münster Multispecies Mending From Micro to Macro: Microbiomes, Industrial Ecosystems, and Ecologies of Participation - Eleanor Hadley Kershaw Conspiring, Drawing Breath Together - Timothy Choy Part 5: Enclosing: Reclaiming Land Relation, Resistance and Repair: Zapatista Environmental Education and Research - Emma Cardwell; Agroecology as a Politics of Matter - Andrea Ghelfi Nothingness and the Anthropocene/Capitalocene: Absences, Survival, Flourishing ~ Juan Camilo Cajigas Part 6: Loss: Recollecting Travelling Memories: Re-Paring the Past in Secure Psychiatric Care - Steve Brown The Consolation of Things - Leila Dawney Infrastructural Repair: Crafting Reparation and Solidarity in Post-Accord Colombia - Fredy Mora Gámez Part 7: Representing: Self-Governing Commons-Based Mending Ecology - Doina Petrescu Transversal Tales of Mending From a Workers’ Recuperated Factory - Marco Checchi Affected Streets: Towards a Mongrel-Quiltro Politics - Cristóbal Bonelli and Marisol De La Cadena Part 8: Isolating: Weaving (Un)making Ecologies: Subject-Object Encounters As Practices of the Self - Eliana Sánchez-Aldana Paying Attention to Fragility: The Sensible Encounters of Maintenance - Jérôme Denis and David Pontille Part 9: Growth: Flourishing Algorithmic Food Justice - Sara Heitlinger, Lara Houston and Alex Taylor Being Affected by Páramo. Maps, Landscape Drawings, and a Risky Science - Santiago Martínez Medina and Alejandra Osejo Ordinary Hope - Steven J. Jackson Show More