Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene

“When the evidence of pollution and infrastructural decay is abundant, what kinds of critical response are relevant? The contributors to this outstanding collection demonstrate how insightful ethnographic research has the capacity to reveal pervasive and localized symptoms of environmental deterioration and, in the midst of these, is also able to detect the signs of possibility. The result is a compelling intervention in the debate about the planetary condition.” - Andrew Barry, University College, London

"Offering an original approach to contemporary concerns about infrastructures at a time of devastating environmental change, this impressive volume focuses on the political implications of the ways in which environments and infrastructures are conflated or kept apart. Through close attention to the shifting relations between figure and ground on which infrastructural politics ultimately depend, this outstanding intervention will shape critical discussions in anthropology, science and technology studies, and cultural geography." - Penny Harvey, coeditor of Anthropos and the Material

"For anthropologists, cultural geographers, scientists, planners, activists, and artists, the volume elucidates collective human actions and how they are related to engineering, nature, art, subjectivity and the aesthetics of control." - Stephanie Kane, PoLAR

"... this volume offers an insightful evaluation of infrastructural complexity and an excellent starting point for thinking about amendatory futures." - Melanie Ford, Anthropos

“Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene is an ambitious and brilliant work of ethnographic analysis…. The book is a solid source for critical scholars working on the Anthropocene, offering ways to grasp such a complex concept through those of infrastructure, environment and life.”