Infrastructure and the environment in anthropology

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ID3084093
AuthorsA Rippa (0000-0002-9533-3988, University of Oslo, Norway; Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume63
Issue1
Pages25-46
Publication date2024-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Science Information (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0539-0184 • E-ISSN: 1461-7412
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/05390184231189126
OpenAlexW4385497365
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited95

This article maps out a nascent field that is currently taking shape, one that bridges anthropological considerations of infrastructure, political ecology, and science and technology studies with transdisciplinary approaches to ethics of care beyond the human. This emerging field stimulates a re-thinking of the relationships between the built and the non-built environment and encourages exploring infrastructure as indexes by which to grasp, ethnographically and methodologically, the Anthropocene. In this article, I outline and review this field, paying particular attention to the multiple legacies that inform current anthropological research on the relations between infrastructure and the environment. In doing so I mobilize environing infrastructure as a guiding framework of analysis - a notion I borrow from recent scholarship in environmental history and that helps appreciating infrastructure as historically specific multi-species formations

Anthropocene · Biology · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · GRASP · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Ecology

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