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Repair, Remediation and Resurgence
in Social and Environmental Conflict
EDITED BY
DIMITRIS PAPADOPOULOS
MARIA PUIG DE LA BELLACASA
MADDALENA TACCHETTI
Dis-positions: Troubling Methods
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Dimitris Papadopoulos, University of Nottingham, UK
Kavita Philip, University of British Columbia, Canada
Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, University of Warwick, UK
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Martin Savransky, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
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ECOLOGICAL
REPARATION
Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in
Social and Environmental Conflict
Edited by
Dimitris Papadopoulos, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa
and Maddalena Tacchetti
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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