Thinking with Soils: Material Politics and Social Theory

Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Foreword • Maria Puig de la Bellacasa
1 Thinking-with Soils: An Introduction Juan Francisco Salazar, Céline Granjou, Anna Krzywoszynska, Manuel Tironi, and Matthew Kearnes
2 Soil Th eories: Relational, Decolonial, Inhuman • Manuel Tironi, Matthew Kearnes, Anna Krzywoszynska, Céline Granjou, and Juan Francisco Salazar
3 Mapping Soil, Losing Ground? Politics of Soil Mapping • Juliette Kon Kam King and Céline Granjou
4 Soils and Commodification • Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro and Levi Van Sant
5 Knowing Earth, Knowing Soil: Epistemological Work and the Political Aesthetics of Regenerative Agriculture • Matthew Kearnes and Lauren Rickards
6 To Know, To Dwell, To Care: Towards an Actionable, Place-based Knowledge of Soils • Anna Krzywoszynska with Steve Banwart and David Blacker
7 Soiling Mars: “To Boldly Grow Where No Plant Has Grown Before”? • Filippo Bertoni
8 Geosocial Polar Futures and the Material Geopolitics of Frozen Soils  • Francisco Salazar and Klaus Dodds
9 A Mend to the Metabolic Rift? The Promises (and Potential Pitfalls) of Biosolids Application on American Soils • Nicholas C. Kawa
10 Reclaiming Freak Soils: From Conquering to Journeying with Urban Soils • Germain Meulemans
11 Soil Refusal: Thinking Earthly Matters as Radical Alterity • Manuel Tironi
12 Geophagiac: Art, Food, Dirt • Lindsay Kelley
Index