Pierre Belanger (Har Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Alexander Arroyo (Berkeley University of California)

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Ecologies of Power

Countermapping the Logistical Landscapes and Military Geographies of the U.S. Department of Defense

Beschreibung

This book is not about war, nor is it a history of war. 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. Instead of wartime highs, this book starts with drawdown lows, when demobilization and decommissioning morph into realignment and prepositioning. It is in this transitional milieu that the full material magnitudes and geographic entanglements of contemporary militarism are laid bare. Through this perpetual cycle of build up and breakdown, the U.S. 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.

Autor

Pierre Bélanger, an independent landscape architect and urbanist, is editor of Extraction Empire: Undermining the Systems, States, and Scales of Canada's Global Resource Empire, coauthor of Ecologies of Power: Countermapping the Logistical Landscapes and Military Geographies of the U.S. Department of Defense (both published by the MIT Press), and Landscape as Infrastructure, Going Live: from States to Systems. Alexander Arroyo is a doctoral student in Geography at the University of California, Berkeley.

Produktdetails

• The MIT Press
• Verlag: MIT Press / The MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 253mm x 200mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1555g
• ISBN-13: 9780262529396
• ISBN-10: 0262529394
• Artikelnr.: 44826980

Rezensionen

Casting astute eyes on a very different landscape, in Ecologies of Power, Pierre Bélanger... and Alexander Arroyo, assess U.S. military 'logistical landscapes' and the 'military geographies' of defense, conducted on a scale large enough to mark, and even remake, the planet. Harvard Magazine

Bélanger and Arroyo have made an effective case for the extent and import of the landscapes in which [critical, spatial] questions operate the questions Ecologies of Power raises figure a substantive, if largely unexplored, agenda for design.

Journal of Architectural Education

Bélanger and Arroyo's analysis focuses on the aspects of Department of Defense (DOD) operations that are constructive

and visible in the process contravening the fashion in war studies of foregrounding (to the extent possible) covert operations, state secrecy, and the destructiveness of military force as emblematic of modern war.

Air & Space Power Journal

This is an extraordinary book in many ways. What started as a mapping project developed over seven years into a book that uses numerous disciplines to describe how the power of the US military the 'single largest landowner, equipment contractorand energy consumer in the world' (16:43 44) is expressed in space, over time and to scale.

Journal of Medicine, Conflict and Survival"Bélanger and Arroyo recalibrate how we understand relations of military and urban space, expertly linking disparate and often invisible logics and landscapes. A graphical masterpiece, Ecologies of Power is essential reading for anyone interested in how the world is being made." -Charlie Hailey, author of Camps: A Guide to 21st-Century Space

"Bélanger and Arroyo recalibrate how we understand relations of military and urban space, expertly linking disparate and often invisible logics and landscapes. A graphical masterpiece, Ecologies of Power is essential reading for anyone interested in how the world is being made." -Charlie Hailey, author of Camps: A Guide to 21st-Century Space