Infrastructures of Harm, Communities of Knowledge and Environmental Justice

Marco Armiero on Bodies, Narratives and Commoning in the WasteoceneJust a couple of months before he joined a panel with Divya Gupta in the "Infrastructures of Harm, Communities of Knowledge & Environmental Justice" panel, 1 Marco Armiero was asked in a webinar why he insisted on narratives and storytelling as central in his ideas about the Wasteocene (the homonymous book was released in 2021 as part of the Cambridge Elements series).As an avid Marxist, and Senior Editor of the journal Capitalism Nature Socialism, his answer did not surprise the audience.His words were instead reassuring and filled the online environment with hope and revolutionary energy as they confirmed that a career path asking questions about narratives, nature and justice was not an irrelevant one.He conveyed that seizing the narratives is as important as seizing the means of production.But how to even start with such a Herculean task when narratives, mainly toxic ones, seem so ephemeral and so ubiquitous?Armiero's work is a great inspiration for understanding such narratives as both material and discursive, as fleshed out in his presentation in the "Landscapes of Injustice, Landscapes of Repair" series, organized by the Human Rights Institute at Binghamton and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.There, he continued dismantling, brick after brick, narratives whose purpose is to naturalize environmental injustice, convince us that the poor choose to be poor and that those living in a polluted community are responsible for its toxicity.Extending

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