Book ID: CBB235492654

Reactivating Elements: Chemistry, Ecology, Practice (2022)

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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, María Puig de la Bellacasa, Astrid Schrader, Isabelle Stengers

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Authors & Contributors
Barrie Juniper
Maar, Juergen Heinrich
Shibani Bose
Maar, Alexander
Moreno-Martínez, Luis
Zambon, Alfio
Concepts
Chemical elements
Science and culture
Chemistry
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Science, general histories
Periodic system of the elements; periodic table
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
18th century
21st century
Modern
Enlightenment
Places
Arctic regions
Southern states (U.S.)
Sweden
Spain
Portugal
Norway
Institutions
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
American Chemical Society
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