Infrastructural Being: Rethinking dwelling in a naturecultural world (1st ed. 2022)

By: Jarno Valkonen and Veera Kinnunen and Heikki Huilaja and Teemu Loikkanen

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Synopsis: This book provides a comprehensive insight into the contemporary naturecultural world by exploring infrastructures through the dwelling approach. The notion of naturecultures has been utilized in environmental humanities and social sciences to emphasize the inherent messiness of the lived world and the inseparability of social and biophysical elements. Concept of naturecultures stresses that seemingly “natural” is always simultaneously “cultural” and vice versa. This approach allows fleshing out the messy engagements with infrastructures, which in this book is conceptualized as infrastructural being. This book is a contribution to emerging discussions on infrastructures in the fields of environmental social sciences and humanities. It sensitizes to the peculiarities of modern dwelling and modern, yet often overlooked, ways of being connected with nature. Moreover, it provides tools for speculating, how could things be otherwise. The book is a topical response to the urgent call for developing new forms of human-nature relations in times of environmental turbulence.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783031158278
Related ISBNs:: 9783031158261
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Date of Addition:: 01/01/23
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Social Studies, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Jarno Valkonen
Edited by:: Veera Kinnunen
Edited by:: Heikki Huilaja
Edited by:: Teemu Loikkanen