Reactivating Elements: Chemistry, Ecology, Practice Paperback ? January 7, 2022

ISBN 10: 1478014369 / ISBN 13: 9781478014362

Published by Duke University Press, 2022

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• Title: Reactivating Elements: Chemistry, Ecology, Practice Paperback ? January 7, 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1478014369
• ISBN 13: 9781478014362
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The contributors to Reactivating Elements examine chemicals as they mix with soil, air, water, and fire to shape Earth's troubled ecologies today. They invoke the elements with all their ambivalences as chemical categories, material substances, social forms, forces and energies, cosmological entities, and epistemic objects. Engaging with the nonlinear historical significance of elemental thought across fields—chemistry, the biosciences, engineering, physics, science and technology studies, the environmental humanities, ecocriticism, and cultural studies—the contributors examine the relationship between chemistry and ecology, probe the logics that render wind as energy, excavate affective histories of ubiquitous substances such as plastics and radioactive elements, and chart the damage wrought by petrochemical industrialization. Throughout, the volume illuminates how elements become entangled with power and control, coloniality, racism, and extractive productivism while exploring alternative paths to environmental destruction. In so doing, it rethinks the relationship between the elements and the elemental, human and more-than-human worlds, today’s damaged ecosystems and other ecologies to come.

Contributors. Patrick Bresnihan, Tim Choy, Joseph Dumit, Cori Hayden, Stefan Helmreich, Joseph Masco, Michelle Murphy, Natasha Myers, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Marķa Puig de la Bellacasa, Astrid Schrader, Isabelle Stengers

About the Author

Dimitris Papadopoulos is Professor of Science, Technology and Society at the University of Nottingham.

Marķa Puig de la Bellacasa is Associate Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick.

Natasha Myers is Associate Professor of Anthropology at York University.