The forest behind the walls
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19219241 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catherine Fennell (Columbia University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Pages | 1-19 |
| Publication date | 2026-04-22 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History and Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0275-7206 • E-ISSN: 1477-2612 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02757206.2026.2635338 |
| OpenAlex | W7155160923 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
This paper takes up ‘deconstruction’ in the late industrial urban Midwest (USA), a building removal practice focused on dismantling structures piece-by-piece, with an eye to retaining and reusing as many components as possible in future building and fabrication projects. Practitioners and advocates tout deconstruction as an ‘environmentally sustainable’ alternative to mechanized wrecking, and emphasize that ‘saving’ wood from the region's ubiquitous landfills can ‘spare’ remaining forests from felling. As such, deconstruction is associated with expanding interest in circular economies. This paper considers yet moves past that perspective by examining the practice as a species of gleaning attuned to a moment in which the dump is not so much ‘elsewhere’ as it is everywhere
Deconstruction (building) · Front (military) · Moment (physics) · Perspective (graphical) · Reuse · Work (physics) · Diverse Musicological Studies · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |