Experimenting with fog
Environmental infrastructures, infrastructuring environments, and the infrastructure of infrastructure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4464535 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Ojani (0000-0001-9273-5642, Jagiellonian University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 24-41 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/25148486221101458 |
| OpenAlex | W4281662802 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 35 |
In coastal Peru, conservationists and scientists attend to fog as something that may be captured and transformed into water. This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork among Limeñan conservationists who tapped into this atmospheric phenomenon as an alternative water source for use in fog oasis ecosystem reforestation. As I demonstrate, experimental engagements with fog had reconfigured conservationists' and other experimenters' understanding about the connections between the atmosphere, vegetation, and the underground, thereby bringing into view a hitherto imperceptible environmental infrastructure of groundwater production. The infrastructural potentials of the landscape were in turn foregrounded by the conservationists through comparisons with other geographies well-known for their capacity to produce water. Against this backdrop, the article argues for renewed attention to the infrastructural as a comparative effect resulting from simultaneous fore/backgrounding. Rather than mere grounds for second-order processes, infrastructural relations can be understood as situated between foreground and background. As environmental calamities complicate the infrastructure-environment nexus, it is no longer clear what infrastructures consist of, nor what they are capable of doing. In this context, an understanding of infrastructures as comparative effects is useful for describing and speculatively amplifying potentially more sustainable infrastructural alternatives
Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Reforestation · Situated · Sustainability · Water infrastructure · Water supply · Computer Science · Environmental Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Water resources management and optimization · Ecology · Environmental Engineering
Spiderweb Anthropologies
Sorting Things Out
Infrastructures as Ontological Experiments
Tending to Suspension
How Things Hold
Infrastructuring Environments
Ecologies of Comparison
The Marvelous Clouds
Nature as infrastructure
Experimenting with political materials
Ethnography In/Of/As Open Systems1
The Ethnographic Machine
Airquakes
Slippery ontologies of tidal flats
Experimental Systems
A multiplicity ofprek(s)
Making nature into infrastructure
The Ethnography of Infrastructure
The anthropology of traps
Attention to infrastructure offers a welcome reconfiguration of anthropological approaches to the political
Out of Order
The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure
Learning to feel at home in the Anthropocene
Machine Sky
Speculations on infrastructure
Multispecies Infrastructure
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |