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DIS- P O S I T I O N E C O L O G I C A L S R E PA R AT I O N Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict EDITED BY DIMITRIS PAPADOPOULOS MARIA PUIG DE LA BELLACASA MADDALENA TACCHETTI Dis-positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STS Series Editors: Mike Michael, University of Exeter and Alex Wilkie, Goldsmiths, University of London Turning the mirror on science and technology studies, this pioneering book series explores the pivotal changes in the discipline. It occupies a unique position in the field as a platform for adventurous projects that redraw the disciplinary boundaries of STS. Forthcoming in the series Adventures in Aesthetics: Rethinking Aesthetics beyond the Bifurcation of Nature Edited by Melanie Sehgal and Alex Wilkie Find out more at bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/dis-positions International advisory board Itty Abraham, National University of Singapore Ben Anderson, Durham University, UK Casper Bruun-Jensen, Kyoto University, Japan Nerea Calvillo, University of Warwick, UK Tomás Sánchez Criado, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany Didier Debaise, Free University of Brussels, Belgium Marisol de la Cadena, University of California, Davis, US Carl DiSalvo, Georgia Tech, US Miquel Domènech, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain Ignacio Farías, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany Michael Guggenheim, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Michael Halewood, University of Essex, UK Gay Hawkins, Western Sydney University, Australia Christopher M. Kelty, University of California, Los Angeles, US Daniel López Gómez, Open University of Catalonia, Spain Celia Lury, University of Warwick, UK Patrice Maniglier, Paris Nanterre University, France Noortje Marres, University of Warwick, UK Amade M’charek, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Atsuro Morita, Osaka University, Japan Fabian Muniesa, Paris Mines School, France Dimitris Papadopoulos, University of Nottingham, UK Kavita Philip, University of British Columbia, Canada Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, University of Warwick, UK Kane Race, University of Sydney, Australia Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Open University of Catalonia, Spain Martin Savransky, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Melanie Sehgal, University of Wuppertal, Germany Manuel Tironi, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile Martin Tironi, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile Find out more at bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/dis-positions ECOLOGICAL REPARATION Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict Edited by Dimitris Papadopoulos, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa and Maddalena Tacchetti First published in Great Britain in 2023 by Bristol University Press University of Bristol 1– 9 Old Park Hill Bristol BS2 8BB UK t: + 44 (0)117 374 6645 e: bup- [email protected] Details of international sales and distribution partners are available at bristoluniversitypress.co.uk © Bristol University Press 2023 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978-1 -5 292- 1604- 2 hardcover ISBN 978-1 -5 292- 1605- 9 paperback ISBN 978-1 -5 292- 1606-6 ePub ISBN 978-1 -5 292-1607-3 ePdf The right of Dimitris Papadopoulos, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa and Maddalena Tacchetti to be identified as editors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. 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Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY Contents List of Figures viii Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgements xiv Note on the Figures xv Dis- Positions Series Preface xvi Introduction: No Justice, No Ecological Peace: The Groundings of 1 Ecological Reparation Dimitris Papadopoulos, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa and Maddalena Tacchetti PART I Depletion<>Resurgence 1 Experiments in Situ: Soil Repair Practices as Part of 19 Place- Based Action for Change in El Salvador Naomi Millner 2 Hesitant: Three Theses on Ecological Reparation 37 (Otherwise) Manuel Tironi 3 The False Bay Coast of Cape Town: A Critical Zone 50 Lesley Green and Vanessa Farr PART II Deskilling<>Experimenting 4 Reflections on a Mending Ecology through Pastures 75 for Life Claire Waterton 5 Fab Cities as Infrastructures for Ecological 90 Reparation: Maker Activism, Vernacular Skills and Prototypes for Self- Grounding Collective Life Atsuro Morita and Kazutoshi Tsuda 6 The Cosmoecological Workshop: Or, How to 104 Philosophize with a Hammer Martin Savransky v ECOLOGICAL REPARATION PART III Contaminating<>Cohabiting 7 Multispecies Mending from Micro to Macro: Biome 119 Restoration, Carbon Recycling and Ecologies of Participation Eleanor Hadley Kershaw 8 Involvement as an Ethics for More than Human 137 Interdependencies Nerea Calvillo 9 From Museum to MoB 153 Timothy Choy PART IV Enclosing<>Reclaiming Land 10 Land in Our Names: Building an Anti- Racist Food 161 Movement Sam Siva 11 Land Reparations and Ecological Justice: An Interview 164 with Sam Siva Sam Siva, Dimitris Papadopoulos and Maria Puig de la Bellacasa 12 Waste, Improvement and Repair on Ireland’s Peat Bogs 175 Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie 13 New Peasantries in Italy: Eco- Commons, Agroecology 194 and Food Communities Andrea Ghelfi 14 ‘Obedecer a la Vida’: Environmental Citizenship 208 Otherwise? Juan Camilo Cajigas PART V Loss<>Recollecting 15 Travelling Memories: Repairing the Past and Imagining 225 the Future in Medium- Secure Forensic Psychiatric Care Steven D. Brown, Paula Reavey, Donna Ciarlo and Abisola Balogun- Katung 16 Conversations on Benches 242 Leila Dawney and Linda Brothwell 17 Curating Reparation and Recrafting Solidarity in 258 Post- Accord Colombia Fredy Mora- Gámez PART VI Representing<>Self- governing 18 Commons- Based Mending Ecologies 275 Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou vi CONTENTS 19 Ri- Maflow: Des- pair, Resistance and Re- pair in an 289 Urban Industrial Ecology Marco Checchi 20 Chilean Streets: An Archive against the Grain of History 301 Cristobal Bonelli and Marisol de la Cadena PART VII Isolating<>Embodying 21 (Un)crafting Ecologies: Actions Involving Special Skills 329 at (Un)making Things Humans with Your Hands Eliana Sánchez- Aldana 22 Cultivating Attention to Fragility: The Sensible 344 Encounters of Maintenance Jérôme Denis and David Pontille 23 Technological Black Boxing versus Ecological 362 Reparation: From Encased- Industrial to Open- Renewable Wind Energy Aristotle Tympas PART VIII Growth<>Flourishing 24 Algorithmic Food Justice 379 Lara Houston, Sara Heitlinger, Ruth Catlow and Alex Taylor 25 Being Affected by Páramo: Maps, Landscape Drawings 397 and a Risky Science Alejandra Osejo and Santiago Martínez- Medina 26 Ordinary Hope 417 Steven J. Jackson Index 434 vii List of Figures 1.1 Julio makes bokashi 24 1.2 The layer cake 24 1.3 Playing the part of the soil 28 2.1 Location of Tubul- Raqui 40 2.2 Encounter in Antofagasta 43 2.3 Puna ecologies, Salar de Atacama 47 8.1 Yellow Dust 142 8.2 Monsoon rain in Seoul 144 8.3 Water supply hose cut 145 8.4 Builders trying to fix the hose to a toilet tap 146 8.5 Yellow Dust minutes before the opening 147 8.6 Daily comfort treats left in my room by the hostel manager 149 14.1 Tenasuca Lagoon, 2015 210 14.2 Tenasuca Natural Reserve Logo, 2016 212 14.3 Arnovis preparing the organic field, 2015 213 17.1 Memory Gallery at Plaza de Bolivar in 2016 261 17.2 Street memorial in 2020 exhibiting evidence of the murder 263 of a soldier who refused to follow orders in the Falsos Positivos cases 17.3 Blankets on the street with decoration items and wallets 265 17.4 Street display of crafted bags 267 17.5 Paintings on recrafted Venezuelan notes 268 18.1 R- Urban principles diagram 278 18.2 Agrocité – an urban agriculture hub, R-U rban Colombes, 2013 280 18.3 Recyclab – a recycle and eco- construction hub, R- Urban 281 Colombes, 2014 18.4 Civic protest against Agrocité’s demolition, Colombes, 2015 283 18.5 Agrocité hub relocated in Gennevilliers, 2016 284 20.1 Las mil guitarras de Victor Jara 303 20.2 Street Palimpsest of Guitars and Dignity 304 20.3 Baquedano displaced by Dignity 305 20.4 La herida es lo que nos une (The wound unites us) 306 20.5 Enduring Presences in the Sacred Tree of Chile 308 viii LIST OF FIGURES 20.6 The Sacred Tree of Chile outside the Centro Cultural 308 Gabriela Mistral (GAM) 20.7 Helia Witker’s Sacred Tree of Chile 309 20.8 Pelea como Kiltro (Fight as Kiltro) 310 20.9 Snapshot from digital intervention CIMA Gallery 311 20.10 Fuerza Kiltra 312 20.11 Somos las nietas de las brujas que no pudiste quemar 313 20.12 Somos los nietos de los obreros que no pudiste matar 315 20.13 La revolución será feminista o no será 317 20.14 Speaking Walls 319 20.15 Extractivismo-E specismo- Patriarcado 321 20.16 Minute of Silence, Inauguration of Chilean Constitutional 322 Convention 21.1 Warp: the threads on a loom – a machine used to make 330 cloth – that other threads are passed over and under to make cloth. // Weft: the threads that are twisted under and over the threads that are held on a loom 21.2 A detail of the textile woven 330 21.3 The textile logics for the textile making process 331 21.4 The textile logic for the text 331 21.5 Material- semiotic in textile logics explained by Law (2007) 332 and drawn/ woven by me 21.6 Street view of Salvador metal workshop (left) and inside the 333 workshop (right), 19 June 2019 21.7 Notes taken the day we calculated and designed the textiles, 334 a textile in numbers and text (top-l eft); Margarita, Robert, THL105 and I (top- right); cleaning THL105 (bottom-left); the warp (bottom- right) 21.8 Textile sample woven with the same warp set. Details of what 337 I wove in the closest time to Marco’s death 21.9 Textile woven with pencil lines 338 21.10 THL105 as I received it; the warp rolled; once I started 339 unrolling it, I started seeing changes; thread under a stereoscope 21.11 Combing, unravelling the warp (left); re- threading (centre); 340 weaving at my new place (right) 21.12 The textile piece out of the loom; detail of the hanger 341 (top); detail of the unexpected woven (bottom) 22.1 Inspecting a water reservoir: touching 347 22.2 Reporting graffiti presence 348 22.3 Ploc, ploc, what’s that sound? 351 22.4 Touching the graffitied surface 352 22.5 Inspecting a water reservoir: the descent 354 22.6 Chemical solvents and the dance of rags 355 ix
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