Environ

Nardizzi, Vin

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“…Far from the meaning that the word 'environment' came to assume in the 20th century, tied to politics of conservation and the largely negative consequences of human activities (Warde et al, 2018), 'environing' speaks to an older form of the word: environ. That is, a premodern verb (and at times adverb and preposition) that used to indicate the process of encircling human bodies and enclosing land (Nardizzi, 2017). Far from pleasant and harmonious processes, 'environ' was often used in a military context and implied frictions and disruptions -and it represents a useful reminder of the socio-ecological violence of modern infrastructural interventions.…”

Section: The Infrastructure Turn and The Environment In Anthropologymentioning

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Infrastructure and the environment in anthropology

Rippa

2023

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This article maps out a nascent field that is currently taking shape, one that bridges anthropological considerations of infrastructure, political ecology, and science and technology studies with transdisciplinary approaches to ethics of care beyond the human. This emerging field stimulates a re-thinking of the relationships between the built and the non-built environment and encourages exploring infrastructure as indexes by which to grasp, ethnographically and methodologically, the Anthropocene. In this article, I outline and review this field, paying particular attention to the multiple legacies that inform current anthropological research on the relations between infrastructure and the environment. In doing so I mobilize environing infrastructure as a guiding framework of analysis – a notion I borrow from recent scholarship in environmental history and that helps appreciating infrastructure as historically specific multi-species formations.

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Section: The Infrastructure Turn and The Environment In Anthropologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Infrastructure and the environment in anthropology

Rippa

2023

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Environing technologies: a theory of making environment

Sörlin

Wormbs

2018

History and Technology

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The central proposal of this article is that environing technologies shape and structure the way in which nature becomes environment, and as such used, perceived and understood. The argument builds on the understanding that environment is the result of human intervention. Technology is here understood broadly as a terraforming practise, materially and conceptually. We suggest that the compound environing technologies enable us to see environmental change on multiple scales and in new registers. That technologies alter the physical world is not new; our contribution focuses on the conceptual, epistemological, economic and emotional appreciation of systems and aggregates of technologies that is part and parcel of material change. The environing technologies that enable such articulation and comprehension hold potential in the future transformation that our societies need to undergo to overcome the crisis of environment and climate.

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Race in the Crucible of Literary Debate

Jerng¹

2019

American Literary History

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Both Caroline Levine’s Forms (2015) and Rita Felski’s The Limits of Critique (2015) use Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network-Theory to help them theorize reading practices for analyzing the interrelationships between literature and sociopolitical experience. In doing so, both disavow powerful understandings of the “social” produced across race and gender critique in African American and ethnic literary studies. This essay traces a connection backwards from Latour to the sociologist Gabriel Tarde to critiques of sociology by W. E. B. Du Bois. Du Bois’s understanding of the social and literary dimensions of “environing” critique assumptions embedded in the idea of networks, highlighting crucial experiences of being made not to act as constitutive of the social. The argument turns to brief syntheses of work by Saidiya Hartman, Hortense Spillers, Lisa Lowe, and Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong for models of thinking literary and social experience, suggesting that they need to be brought into these discussions of the normative values and methods of literary study. The essay concludes by reconsidering Winfried Fluck’s examination of these normative values in relation to dominant philosophies of history and questioning his assumptions about conditions of unfreedom.

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Environ

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Infrastructure and the environment in anthropology

Infrastructure and the environment in anthropology

Environing technologies: a theory of making environment

Race in the Crucible of Literary Debate

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