... Netherlands domestication environmental infrastructure coastal engineering scale models ...

..., domesticated, and made into allies in sculpting resilient environmental infrastructure. The chapter introduces, in miniature, recurring themes that have to do with the historical matrices out of which wave science arrives, with folklore, record keeping, physical scale models, computer simulations, remote...

... Automated environments capture the programming of milieus that is now occurring in order to actively manage resource flows and mitigate against the overstepping of planetary boundaries. Populated with all manner of smart technologies, from environmental sensors and the internet of things...

... concessions as well as infrastructure projects, such as building dams and roads. The critiques have focused on the high costs to the health and diversity of ecosystems and to the well-being and livelihoods of local communities vulnerable to pollution and displacement. For environmental movements throughout...

... through the data mining of Cloud infrastructure to the eventual outcome of e-waste, where a secondary form of mining occurs. In emphasizing the materiality of the digital image, the chapter pushes back against narratives that the digital is less material and, by extension, less environmentally damaging...

..., The Politicized Economy . That book explored the infrastructure of consumption and the rightward turn of the white working class; nonetheless its environmentalism was too sociocentric. Connolly addresses new disciplines imposed by capitalist states, the character of the capitalist axiomatic, contemporary modes...

... Chapter 1 introduces the concept of geo-racial regimes: hierarchical orderings of society and space organized primarily along racial lines. The chapter highlights the importance of infrastructural environments, like the Magdalena River, to the historical emergence of the modern/colonial world...

..., the consultations and the policy centered on impacts: environmental hazards, including even threats to oil’s infrastructure. In a fashion I had not anticipated, my informants positioned the petrostate of Trinidad and Tobago as simply a victim of climate change. With these informants, my conversations sometimes...

... discourse analysis in this chapter examines Appendix A, the design guidelines for the WOSP, and questions the representations illustrated. Studying the WOSP provides a unique opportunity to deconstruct municipal images while illuminating how historical environmental and racialized discourses continue...

... and the 1950s. The second section details how the postwar reinvention of the coaxial cable network negotiated between existing routes of empire, emergent forces of infrastructural decentralization, and a new “club” system of cable laying. The final sections describe how fiber-optic cables were shaped...

... longings for biomarine sustenance and environmental endurance across this ocean figured broadly into ecological coalition. This ocean commons needs to be conceptualized as peril and promise, articulated at social and ecological levels that trace damage and potential. This Pacific Ocean (like the Empire...

... transportation infrastructure for national and international commerce also generated friction with local indigenous communities claiming their own territorial rights, as seen in the conflict over the Isiboro-Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory ( tipnis ). In the following interview from La Jornada...

... and the identity and nationalist politics in which it was embroiled through its transformation from a monumental to an environmental practice that valorizes heritage landscapes as depoliticized totalities. The chapter is anchored around the practices through which a variety of stakeholders repoliticize...

... development precision and uncertainty voting grassroots organizing chemical exposures environmental damage This chapter weaves together these struggles over counting, struggles that encompass repair, territory, land, subsistence, money, resources, and networks, and connects them to historic memory...

... have considered carbon emissions and means of reducing them. Instead, the consultations and the policy centered on impacts: environmental hazards, including even threats to oil’s infrastructure. In a fashion I had not anticipated, my informants positioned the petrostate of Trinidad and Tobago as simply...