47.4 - Infrastructures and Ecology

Special Issue– Ruptures, Transformations, Continuities. Rethinking Infrastructures and Ecology. (Philipp Degens, Iris Hilbrich & Sarah Lenz)

Introduction

• Philipp Degens, Iris Hilbrich & Sarah Lenz: Analyzing Infrastructures in the Anthropocene.

Contributions

• Sheila Jasanoff: Spaceship or Stewardship: Imaginaries of Sustainability in the Information Age.
• Dominic Boyer: Infrastructural Futures in the Ecological Emergency: Gray, Green, and Revolutionary.
• Simone Schiller-Merkens: Social Transformation through Prefiguration? A Multi-Political Approach of Prefiguring Alternative Infrastructures.
• Cristina Besio, Nadine Arnold & Dzifa Ametowobla: Participatory Organizations as Infrastructures of Sustainability? The Case of Energy Cooperatives and Their Ways for Increasing Influence.
• Giacomo Bazzani: Money Infrastructure for Solidarity and Sustainability.
• Jonas van der Straeten: Sustainability’s “Other”: Coming to Terms with the Electric Rickshaw in Bangladesh.
• Mathilda Rosengren: When Infrastructures and Ecological Actors Meet: Resituating “Green” Infrastructures through the History of the Willow Tree.
• Bronislaw Szerszynski: Infrastructuring as a Planetary Phenomenon: Timescale Separation and Causal Closure in More-Than-Human Systems.
• Stephen C. Slota & Elliott Hauser: Inverting Ecological Infrastructures: How Temporality Structures the Work of Sustainability.
• Lisa Suckert & Timur Ergen: Contested Futures: Reimagining Energy Infrastructures in the First Oil Crisis.
• Vincent Gengnagel & Katharina Zimmermann: The European Green Deal as a Moonshot – Caring for a Climate-Neutral Yet Prospering Continent?
• Jonathan Symons & Simon Friederich: Tensions Within Energy Justice: When Global Energy Governance Amplifies Inequality.

Epilogue

• Peter Wagner: Frontiers of Modernity: Infrastructures and Socio-Ecological Transformations.