Infrastructural being : rethinking dwelling in a naturecultural world / Jarno Valkonen, Veera Kinnunen, Heikki Huilaja, Teemu Loikkanen, editors.

This book provides a comprehensive insight into the contemporary naturecultural world by exploring infrastructures through the dwelling approach. The notion of naturecultures has been utilized in environmental humanities and social sciences to emphasize the inherent messiness of the lived world and...

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Other Authors: Valkonen, Jarno (Editor), Kinnunen, Veera (Editor), Huilaja, Heikki (Editor), Loikkanen, Teemu (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Naturecultural imagination in the times of environmental damage.- Approaching infrastructural being.- Anticipatory Infrastructures, Emerging Technologies and Visions of Energy Futures.- Assembling Wild Nature: Icelandic Wildness as a Natureculture Meshwork.- The Social Class and Lifestyle Embeddedness of Being Within Energy Infrastructures.- Circular economy as infrastructural change
  • waste citizenship in the bin.- Everyday infrastructures of care: unmaking waste through repairing and composting.- The Biosphere and the Garden: Nature as Infrastructure?.- Afterword: Some unintentional consequences of infrastructure.