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Reactivating Elements: Chemistry, Ecology, Practice
Reactivating Elements: Chemistry, Ecology, Practice
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Reactivating Elements explores the relationship between chemistry and ecology, investigating how elements become entangled with power, control, coloniality, racism, and extractive productivism, and exploring alternative paths to environmental destruction.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 14 January 2022
Publisher: Duke University Press
The contributors to Reactivating Elements delve into the intricate interplay between chemicals and the diverse environments they encounter, including soil, air, water, and fire. They approach the elements with a multifaceted perspective, recognizing them as chemical categories, material substances, social forms, forces, energies, cosmological entities, and epistemic objects. By engaging with the nonlinear historical significance of elemental thought across various fields such as chemistry, biology, engineering, physics, science and technology studies, environmental humanities, ecocriticism, and cultural studies, the contributors explore the profound relationship between chemistry and ecology. They investigate the logics that govern the conversion of wind into energy, unearth the emotional histories associated with ubiquitous substances like plastics and radioactive elements, and document the devastating impact of petrochemical industrialization. Throughout the volume, the contributors shed light on how elements become entangled with power and control, coloniality, racism, and extractive productivism, while also proposing alternative pathways to environmental destruction. By reimagining the relationship between the elements and the elemental, human, and more-than-human worlds, the book offers insights into the damaged ecosystems of today and the potential for regenerating other ecologies in the future.
Contributors.
Patrick Bresnihan, Tim Choy, Joseph Dumit, Cori Hayden, Stefan Helmreich, Joseph Masco, Michelle Murphy, Natasha Myers, Dimitris Papadopoulos, María Puig de la Bellacasa, Astrid Schrader, Isabelle Stengers
Weight: 444g
Dimension: 153 x 228 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781478014362
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