Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene

Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene explores life in the age of climate change through a series of infrastructural puzzles—sites at which it has become impossible to disentangle the natural from the built environment. With topics ranging from breakwaters built of oysters, underground rivers made by leaky pipes, and architecture gone weedy to neighborhoods partially submerged by rising tides, the contributors explore situations that destabilize the concepts we once relied on to address environmental challenges. They take up the challenge that the Anthropocene poses both to life on the planet and to our social-scientific understanding of it by showing how past conceptions of environment and progress have become unmoored and what this means for how we imagine the future.

Acknowledgments Introduction. Keywords of the Anthropocene / Kregg Hetherington Part I. Reckoning with Ground 1. The Underground as Infrastructure? Water, Figure/Ground Reversals, and Dissolution in Sardinal / Andrea Ballestero 2. Clandestine Infrastructures: Illicit Connectivities in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands / Shaylih Muehlmann 3. The Metropolis: The Infrastructure of the Anthropocene / Gastón Gordillo Part II: Lively Infrastructures 4. Dirty Landscapes: How Weediness Indexes State Disinvestment and Global Disconnection / Ashley Carse 5. From Edenic Apocalypse to Gardens against Eden: Plants and People in and after the Anthropocene / Natasha Myers 6. Leaking Lines / Nikhil Anand Part III: Histories of Progress 7. Low Tide: Submerged Humanism in a Colombian Port / Austin Zeiderman 8. Oysterstructure: Infrastructure, Profanation, and the Sacred Figure of the Human / Stephanie Wakefield & Bruce Braun 9. Here Comes the Sun?: Experimenting with Cambodian Energy Infrastructures / Casper Bruun Jensen 10. The Crisis in Crisis / Joseph Masco References Contributors Index

Kregg Hetherington is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University and the author of Guerrilla Auditors: The Politics of Transparency in Neoliberal Paraguay, also published by Duke University Press.

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