Ecological Reparation

“This is an inspiring call for creative and careful experimentation to reimagine and recraft possibilities for shared life in difficult times.” Thom van Dooren, University of Sydney

"As fossil capitalism ravages the planet, foregrounding resistant acts of ecological reparation is critical in imagining and realizing system change – to which this book contributes with global reach and interdisciplinary scope." T.J. Demos, University of California, Santa Cruz

"… an expansive and compelling collection, by world-leading and emergent scholars, of the critical importance of ecology and relationality in both theorizing reparative justice and detailing practices of hopeful care." Mark Jackson, University of Bristol

Dimitris Papadopoulos is Professor of History of Consciousness at the History of Consciousness Department, University of California, Santa Cruz

Maria Puig de la Bellacasa is Professor of History of Consciousness at the History of Consciousness Department, University of California, Santa Cruz

Maddalena Tacchetti is Lecturer at the School of Business and Creative Industries, University of the West of Scotland

Introduction: No justice, no ecological peace: The groundings of ecological reparation (Dimitris Papadopoulos, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Maddalena Tacchetti)

Acknowledgements

PART I Depletion: Resurgence

1. Experiments in situ: Soil repair practices as part of place-based action for change in El Salvador (Naomi Millner)

2. Hesitant: three theses on ecological reparation (otherwise) (Manuel Tironi)

3. The False Bay Coast of Cape Town: A Critical Zone (Lesley Green and Vanessa Farr)

PART II Deskilling: Experimenting

4. Reflections on a mending ecology through pastures for life (Claire Waterton)

5. Fab Cities as Infrastructures for Ecological Reparation: Maker Activism, Vernacular Skills, and Prototypes for Self-Grounding Collective Life (Atsuro Morita and Kazutoshi Tsuda)

6. The Cosmoecological Workshop: Or, How to Philosophise with a Hammer (Martin Savransky)

PART III Contaminating: Cohabiting

7. Multispecies mending from micro to macro: Biome restoration, carbon recycling, and ecologies of participation (Eleanor Hadley Kershaw)

8. Involvement as an ethics for more than human interdependencies (Nerea Calvillo)

9. From Museum to MOB (Timothy Choy)

PART IV Enclosing: Reclaiming Land

10. Land in Our Names: Building an Anti-Racist Food Movement (Sam Siva)

11. Land reparations and ecological justice – an Interview with Sam Siva (Maria Puig de la Bellacasa and Dimitris Papadopoulos)

12. Waste, improvement and repair on Ireland's Peat Bogs (Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie)

13. New Peasantries in Italy: Eco-commons, Agroecology and Food Communities (Andrea Ghelfi)

14. “Obedecer a la Vida”: Environmental Citizenship Otherwise? (Juan Camilo Cajigas)

PART V Loss: Recollecting

15. Travelling Memories: Repairing the past and imagining the future in medium-secure forensic psychiatric care (Steven D. Brown, Paula Reavey, Donna Ciarlo and Abisola Balogun-Katung)

16. Conversations on benches (Leila Dawney and Linda Brothwell)

17. Curating reparation and recrafting solidarity in post-accord Colombia (Fredy Mora-Gámez)

PART VI Representing: Self-governing

18. Commons-based mending ecologies (Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou)

19. Ri-Maflow: des-pair, resistance and re-pair in an urban industrial ecology (Marco Checchi)

20. Chilean streets: An archive against the grain of History (Cristobal Bonelli and Marisol de la Cadena)

PART VII Isolating: Embodying

21. (Un)crafting ecologies: actions involving special skills at (un)making things humans with your hands (Eliana Sánchez-Aldana)

22. Cultivating Attention to Fragility: The Sensible Encounters of Maintenance (Jérôme Denis and David Pontille)

23. Technological black boxing versus ecological reparation: From encased-industrial to open-renewable wind energy (Aristotle Tympas)

PART VIII Growth: Flourishing

24. Algorithmic Food Justice (Lara Houston, Sara Heitlinger, Ruth Catlow and Alex Taylor)

25. Being affected by páramo: Maps, landscape drawings, and a risky science (Alejandra Osejo and Santiago Martínez Medina)

26. Ordinary Hope (Steven J. Jackson)