Maria Puig De La Bellacasa
Biographic Data
| ID | 187986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Puig De La Bellacasa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria Puig |
| FAMILY NAME | De La Bellacasa |
| SIGNATURE | DE LA BELLACASA M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1264 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
It’s Only Really When I Put My Hands in the Soil That I Feel at Home”
This article explores how practices of soil care in urban gardening contribute to a sense of ecological belonging. Human–soil belonging can be invoked with vastly opposed cultural material underpinnings and sociopolitical implications. Starting from complex fractured understandings of belonging as always intrinsically unbelonging, and based on interviews and fieldwork among diverse communities of committed urban growers from uprooted and migrant …
Ecological Reparation
How do we engage with the threat of social and environmental degradation while creating and maintaining liveable and just worlds? Researchers from diverse backgrounds unpack this question through a series of original and committed contributions to this wide-ranging volume.
Ecological Reparation
Ecological Reparation
Ecological Reparation
Ecological Reparation engages with social-environmental degradation by attempting to rethink concepts and practices that may be needed to repair damaged ecologies and to claim reparations for persistent inequities and injustices. The volume brings together a multiplicity of original contributions of international scholars in science and technology studies, environmental studies, ecological humanities, art and design, geography, anthropology and o…
Ecological Reparation
How do we engage with the threat of social and environmental degradation while creating and maintaining liveable and just worlds? Researchers from diverse backgrounds unpack this question through a series of original and committed contributions to this wide-ranging volume. The authors explore practices of repairing damaged ecologies across different locations and geographies and offer innovative insights for the conservation, mending, care and em…
O pensamento disruptivo do cuidado
Cuidado, cuidando, cuidadora. Palavras carregadas, contestadas. Ainda assim, tão comuns na vida cotidiana, é como se o cuidado fosse natural, para além de alguma expertise ou conhecimento particular. A maioria de nós precisa do cuidado, sente o cuidado, é cuidada ou encontra o cuidado em uma ou outra forma. O cuidado é onipresente, inclusive através dos efeitos da sua ausência. Como um sentimento de falta que emana dos efeitos da negligência, ele…
Introduction. Elements
Embracing Breakdown
Crafting ecologies of existence
Based on ethnographic work with several women's textile making collectives in Colombia, this article approaches their crafting practices as everyday doings of socio-ecological reparation, in the midst of social and environmental devastation caused by the armed conflict. Rather than focusing on the relevance of their activities for political activism and historical memory, an ecological perspective allows us to emphasise their work as a mundane, m…
Elements
Embracing Breakdown
Reactivating Elements
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, engineeri…
Understanding sentiment of national park visitors from social media data
National parks are key for conserving biodiversity and supporting people's well‐being. However, anthropogenic pressures challenge the existence of national parks and their conservation effectiveness. Therefore, it is crucial to assess how people perceive national parks in order to enhance socio‐political support for conservation. User‐generated data shared by visitors on social media provide opportunities to understand how people perceive (e.g. p…
Re-animating soils
In a sense we are unique moist packages of animated soil'. These are the alluring words of Francis D. Hole, a professor of soil science renowned for encouraging love for the soil and understanding of its vital importance. Affirming humans as being soil entangles them in substantial commonness. This article explores how altering the imaginaries of soils as inert matter subjected to human use and re-animating the life within them is transforming co…
Intertwining beyond - critical reading as a labour of care
When Kelly Dombroski told me that she was considering organising a review symposium on Matters of Care with colleagues connected to the Community Economies network (Community Economies Project 2009
Making time for soil
The dominant drive for understanding soil has been to pace its fertility with human demand. Today, warnings about soil's exhaustion and endangered ecology raise concerns marked by fears of gloomy environmental futures, prompting scientists and soil practitioners urgently to develop better ways of taking care of soils. Yet the pace required by ecological soil care could be at odds with the predominant temporal orientation of technoscientific inter…
Quelle citoyenneté pour les femmes ? État des lieux et perspectives (1987-2012)
Cet article évoque le parcours du réseau francophone et pluridisciplinaire ‘État et rapports sociaux de sexe’. Né à la fin des années 1980, ce dernier a contribué à faire progresser la réflexion sur la dimension sexuée de la citoyenneté. Trois concepts furent au cœur de ses travaux — l’État, les politiques sociales et la citoyenneté. Sont évoquées ici les principales approches théoriques qui, sur ces thèmes, ont marqué le champ des sciences humai…
Le féminisme du positionnement. Héritages et perspectives contemporaines
Le féminisme a engendré de vifs débats sur les liens intimes entre lutte politique et production du savoir, ainsi que sur le problème de dés/incarnation de la vérité et de la méthode scientifiques. Cet article aborde plus précisément la pensée du positionnement féministe et la stratégie consistant à récupérer les voix de femmes historiquement réduites au silence. Nous mettons au jour la façon dont cette stratégie a été mise en œuvre et ses liens …
Nothing Comes Without Its World
What is the significance of caring for thinking and knowing? Thinking and knowing are essentially relational processes. Grounded on a relational conception of ontology the essay argues that 'thinking with care' is a vital requisite of collective thinking in interdependent worlds, but also one that necessitates a thick vision of caring. A speculative exploration of forms of thinking with care unfolds through a rereading of Donna Haraway's work, sp…
Ethical doings in naturecultures
What new forms of ethical engagement are emerging in naturecultural worlds? In this paper I explore the example of the practical ethics of the permaculture movement. I put these in dialogue first with new approaches to ethics in biopolitics and naturecultures and second with a reading of feminist care ethics. Across this discussion I focus on the potential of ethos transformations experienced through everyday doings to promote ethical obligations…
Matters of care in technoscience
This paper aims to encourage an ethos of care in the study of science and technology. It starts with a reading of Bruno Latour's notion of 'matters of concern' as favouring an awareness of the ethico-political effects of constructivist accounts in STS. Introducing attention to concern brings us closer to a notion of care. However, there is a 'critical' edge to care that Latour's politics of things tends to disregard. Drawing upon feminist knowled…
Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture
SCOPUS: ch.b
Limitless Life and Devastated Living
Re-tooling subjectivities
Matters of care in technoscience
This paper aims to encourage an ethos of care in the study of science and technology. It starts with a reading of Bruno Latour's notion of 'matters of concern' as favouring an awareness of the ethico-political effects of constructivist accounts in STS. Introducing attention to concern brings us closer to a notion of care. However, there is a 'critical' edge to care that Latour's politics of things tends to disregard. Drawing upon feminist knowled…
Nothing Comes Without Its World
What is the significance of caring for thinking and knowing? Thinking and knowing are essentially relational processes. Grounded on a relational conception of ontology the essay argues that 'thinking with care' is a vital requisite of collective thinking in interdependent worlds, but also one that necessitates a thick vision of caring. A speculative exploration of forms of thinking with care unfolds through a rereading of Donna Haraway's work, sp…
Making time for soil
The dominant drive for understanding soil has been to pace its fertility with human demand. Today, warnings about soil's exhaustion and endangered ecology raise concerns marked by fears of gloomy environmental futures, prompting scientists and soil practitioners urgently to develop better ways of taking care of soils. Yet the pace required by ecological soil care could be at odds with the predominant temporal orientation of technoscientific inter…
Ethical doings in naturecultures
What new forms of ethical engagement are emerging in naturecultural worlds? In this paper I explore the example of the practical ethics of the permaculture movement. I put these in dialogue first with new approaches to ethics in biopolitics and naturecultures and second with a reading of feminist care ethics. Across this discussion I focus on the potential of ethos transformations experienced through everyday doings to promote ethical obligations…
Re-animating soils
In a sense we are unique moist packages of animated soil'. These are the alluring words of Francis D. Hole, a professor of soil science renowned for encouraging love for the soil and understanding of its vital importance. Affirming humans as being soil entangles them in substantial commonness. This article explores how altering the imaginaries of soils as inert matter subjected to human use and re-animating the life within them is transforming co…
Feminist science and technology studies
Reactivating Elements
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, engineeri…
Le féminisme du positionnement. Héritages et perspectives contemporaines
Le féminisme a engendré de vifs débats sur les liens intimes entre lutte politique et production du savoir, ainsi que sur le problème de dés/incarnation de la vérité et de la méthode scientifiques. Cet article aborde plus précisément la pensée du positionnement féministe et la stratégie consistant à récupérer les voix de femmes historiquement réduites au silence. Nous mettons au jour la façon dont cette stratégie a été mise en œuvre et ses liens …
Crafting ecologies of existence
Based on ethnographic work with several women's textile making collectives in Colombia, this article approaches their crafting practices as everyday doings of socio-ecological reparation, in the midst of social and environmental devastation caused by the armed conflict. Rather than focusing on the relevance of their activities for political activism and historical memory, an ecological perspective allows us to emphasise their work as a mundane, m…
Scientificité et politique aujourd'hui
La richesse de la recherche féministe est en grande partie tributaire de la tension entre scientificité et engagement politique. Elle défie ainsi les définitions modernes de la scientificité et notamment la séparation entre science et politique. Cependant les enjeux liés à cette tension sont historiquement situés. Cet article propose une réflexion sur deux processus actuels qui peuvent affecter négativement cette singularité de la pensée féminist…
O pensamento disruptivo do cuidado
Cuidado, cuidando, cuidadora. Palavras carregadas, contestadas. Ainda assim, tão comuns na vida cotidiana, é como se o cuidado fosse natural, para além de alguma expertise ou conhecimento particular. A maioria de nós precisa do cuidado, sente o cuidado, é cuidada ou encontra o cuidado em uma ou outra forma. O cuidado é onipresente, inclusive através dos efeitos da sua ausência. Como um sentimento de falta que emana dos efeitos da negligência, ele…
Intertwining beyond - critical reading as a labour of care
When Kelly Dombroski told me that she was considering organising a review symposium on Matters of Care with colleagues connected to the Community Economies network (Community Economies Project 2009
Scientificité et politique aujourd'hui
La richesse de la recherche féministe est en grande partie tributaire de la tension entre scientificité et engagement politique. Elle défie ainsi les définitions modernes de la scientificité et notamment la séparation entre science et politique. Cependant les enjeux liés à cette tension sont historiquement situés. Cet article propose une réflexion sur deux processus actuels qui peuvent affecter négativement cette singularité de la pensée féminist…
Divergences solidaires
La politisation feministe de l’experience, le personnel est politique, a atteint les savoirs dits scientifiques. Les theorisations de ces politiques en termes de construction de savoirs situes defient la tradition epistemologique moderne. Affirmant un style politique qui cherit les divergences solidaires ces theories prolongent la vivacite de l’histoire politique du feminisme
Positioning within Feminisms
SCOPUS: re.j
Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture
SCOPUS: ch.b
Limitless Life and Devastated Living
Re-tooling subjectivities
Touching technologies, touching visions. The reclaiming of sensorial experience and the politics of speculative thinking
Feminist science and technology studies
Ethical doings in naturecultures
What new forms of ethical engagement are emerging in naturecultural worlds? In this paper I explore the example of the practical ethics of the permaculture movement. I put these in dialogue first with new approaches to ethics in biopolitics and naturecultures and second with a reading of feminist care ethics. Across this discussion I focus on the potential of ethos transformations experienced through everyday doings to promote ethical obligations…
Matters of care in technoscience
This paper aims to encourage an ethos of care in the study of science and technology. It starts with a reading of Bruno Latour's notion of 'matters of concern' as favouring an awareness of the ethico-political effects of constructivist accounts in STS. Introducing attention to concern brings us closer to a notion of care. However, there is a 'critical' edge to care that Latour's politics of things tends to disregard. Drawing upon feminist knowled…
Nothing Comes Without Its World
What is the significance of caring for thinking and knowing? Thinking and knowing are essentially relational processes. Grounded on a relational conception of ontology the essay argues that 'thinking with care' is a vital requisite of collective thinking in interdependent worlds, but also one that necessitates a thick vision of caring. A speculative exploration of forms of thinking with care unfolds through a rereading of Donna Haraway's work, sp…
Quelle citoyenneté pour les femmes ? État des lieux et perspectives (1987-2012)
Cet article évoque le parcours du réseau francophone et pluridisciplinaire ‘État et rapports sociaux de sexe’. Né à la fin des années 1980, ce dernier a contribué à faire progresser la réflexion sur la dimension sexuée de la citoyenneté. Trois concepts furent au cœur de ses travaux — l’État, les politiques sociales et la citoyenneté. Sont évoquées ici les principales approches théoriques qui, sur ces thèmes, ont marqué le champ des sciences humai…
Le féminisme du positionnement. Héritages et perspectives contemporaines
Le féminisme a engendré de vifs débats sur les liens intimes entre lutte politique et production du savoir, ainsi que sur le problème de dés/incarnation de la vérité et de la méthode scientifiques. Cet article aborde plus précisément la pensée du positionnement féministe et la stratégie consistant à récupérer les voix de femmes historiquement réduites au silence. Nous mettons au jour la façon dont cette stratégie a été mise en œuvre et ses liens …
Making time for soil
The dominant drive for understanding soil has been to pace its fertility with human demand. Today, warnings about soil's exhaustion and endangered ecology raise concerns marked by fears of gloomy environmental futures, prompting scientists and soil practitioners urgently to develop better ways of taking care of soils. Yet the pace required by ecological soil care could be at odds with the predominant temporal orientation of technoscientific inter…
Intertwining beyond - critical reading as a labour of care
When Kelly Dombroski told me that she was considering organising a review symposium on Matters of Care with colleagues connected to the Community Economies network (Community Economies Project 2009
Re-animating soils
In a sense we are unique moist packages of animated soil'. These are the alluring words of Francis D. Hole, a professor of soil science renowned for encouraging love for the soil and understanding of its vital importance. Affirming humans as being soil entangles them in substantial commonness. This article explores how altering the imaginaries of soils as inert matter subjected to human use and re-animating the life within them is transforming co…
Understanding sentiment of national park visitors from social media data
National parks are key for conserving biodiversity and supporting people's well‐being. However, anthropogenic pressures challenge the existence of national parks and their conservation effectiveness. Therefore, it is crucial to assess how people perceive national parks in order to enhance socio‐political support for conservation. User‐generated data shared by visitors on social media provide opportunities to understand how people perceive (e.g. p…
Elements
Embracing Breakdown
Reactivating Elements
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, engineeri…
Introduction. Elements
Embracing Breakdown
Crafting ecologies of existence
Based on ethnographic work with several women's textile making collectives in Colombia, this article approaches their crafting practices as everyday doings of socio-ecological reparation, in the midst of social and environmental devastation caused by the armed conflict. Rather than focusing on the relevance of their activities for political activism and historical memory, an ecological perspective allows us to emphasise their work as a mundane, m…
Ecological Reparation
How do we engage with the threat of social and environmental degradation while creating and maintaining liveable and just worlds? Researchers from diverse backgrounds unpack this question through a series of original and committed contributions to this wide-ranging volume.
Ecological Reparation
Sociology (12 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (7 works) · Biology (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (6 works) · Cambodian History and Society (5 works)