Ecologies of Power: Countermapping the Logistical Landscapes and Military Geographies of the U.S. Department of Defense (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (857 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262529394 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Pierre Bélanger is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Alexander Arroyo is a doctoral student in Geography at the University of California, Berkeley.
This book is not about war, nor is it a history of war. militarism across five of the most important and embattled operational environments: the ocean, the atmosphere, the highway, the city, and the desert. Through this perpetual cycle of build up and breakdown, the U.S. Instead of wartime highs, this book starts with drawdown lows, when demobilization and decommissioning morph into realignment and prepositioning. Avoiding the shock and awe of wartime images, it explores the contemporary spatial configurations of power camouflaged in the infrastructures, environments, and scales of military operations. Department of Defense -- the single largest developer, landowner, equipment contractor, and energy consumer in the world -- has engineered a planetary assemblage of "operational environments" in which militarized, demilitarized, and non-militarized landscapes are increasingly inextricable. In so doing, Bélanger and Arroyo reveal unseen ecologies of power at work in the making and unmaking
This ambitious and long-awaited volume is an essential reference for all scholars across the arts and sciences whose work aims to rethink how we engage -- and disengage from -- contemporary forms of conflict. (Keller Easterling, author of Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space)Throughout most contemporary nation-states and Western European militaries, postmodern thought on territory is an influence with theoretical and pedagogical utility. Bélanger and Arroyo recalibrate how we