Granular configurations sand, materiality, and planetary urbanization.

Berlin K. Verlag [2025]

"Granular Configurations: Sand, Materiality, and Planetary Urbanization explores the world's most used--yet often overlooked--building material: sand. Bringing together voices from geography, geology, social sciences, art, and the humanities, the book traces how sand moves and transforms, resisting easy capture by political and ecological systems. From extractive practices and colonial legacies to fragile infrastructures and grassroots struggles, sand emerges here not just as a resource, but as an unstable force shaping the planetary urban condition. Michaela Büsse is an interdisciplinary researcher and practitioner based in Berlin. Her research explores environmental speculation and emerging material and territorial configurations shaped by planetary urbanization and the climate crisis. Michaela has directed several short films, curated exhibitions, and published widely on the recursive relationship between technologies and environments. She is currently a postdoc at TU Dresden and an associated investigator at the Cluster of Excellence "Matters of Activity. Image Space Material" at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin".-- Verlagshomepage

9783947858828
3947858825

Sand
Kulturanthropologie
Geografie
Verstädterung
Baustoff

Büsse, Michaela.

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