Title & Author:

Infrastructure, environment, and life in the Anthropocene / edited by Kregg Hetherington.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
©2019

Description:

viii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Experimental futures

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction : Keywords of the Anthropocene / Kregg Hetherington -- Part I. Reckoning with the ground : The underground as infrastructure?: Water, figure/ground reversals and dissolution in Sardinal / Andrea Ballestero -- Clandestine infrastructures: illicit connectivities in the US-Mexico borderlands / Shaylih Muehlmann -- The metropolis: the infrastructure of the Anthropocene / Gastón Gordillo -- Part II. Lively infrastructures : Dirty landscapes: how weediness indexes state disinvestment and global disconnection / Ashley Carse -- From Edenic apocalypse to gardens against Eden: plants and people in and after the Anthropocene / Natasha Myers -- Leaking lines / Nikhil Anand -- Part III. Histories of progress : Low tide: submerged humanism in a Colombian port / Austin Zeiderman -- Oysterstructure: infrastructure, profanation and the sacred figure of the human / Stephanie Wakefield and Bruce Braun -- Here comes the sun?: Experimenting with Cambodian energy infrastructures / Casper Bruun Jensen -- The crisis in crisis / Joseph Masco.

Summary:

Explores life in the age of climate change through a seinfrastructuralurctural puzzles - sites at which it has become impossible to disentangle the natural from the built environment. WIth topics ranging from breakwaters built of oysters, underground rivers made by leaky pipes, and architecture gone weedy to neighborhoods partially submerged by rising tides, the contributors explore situations that destabilize the concepts we once relied on to address environmental challenges. They take up the challenge that the Anthropocene poses both to life on the planet of environment and progress have become unmoored athis meanshismeans for how we imagine the future.

ISBN:

9781478001485 paperback ; alkaline paper
1478001488 paperback ; alkaline paper
9781478001133 hardcover ; alkaline paper
1478001135 hardcover ; alkaline paper
e-book
9781478002567

Subject:

Human geography.
Infrastructure (Economics) Environmental aspects.
Water-supply Political aspects.
Climatic changes Effect of human beings on.
Sustainable development.
Eau Approvisionnement Aspect politique.
Climat Changements Effets des êtres humains sur.
Développement durable.
sustainable development.
Kulturanthropologie
Humanökologie
Infrastruktur
Anthropozän
Klimaänderung
Cambodge
Mumbai
Singapur

Added entries:

Hetherington, Kregg, editor.
Experimental futures.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 305044
Call No.: BIB 250807
Status: Available