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

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