Ecological Reparation: Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict

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How do we address the threat of social and environmental destruction while creating and maintaining liveable worlds

Expert scholars from diverse backgrounds unpack the question in this research-oriented, real-world challenges-focused collection.

The authors explore practices of repairing damaged ecologies across different locations and geographies and propose innovative ideas for the conservation, mending, care and empowerment of human and non-human ecologies.

This ground breaking collection establishes ecological reparation as an urgent and essential topic of public and scholarly debate.

Reviews

"This is an inspiring call for creative and careful experimentation to reimagine and recraft possibilities for shared life in difficult times." Thom van Dooren, University of Sydney

"As fossil capitalism ravages the planet, foregrounding resistant acts of ecological reparation is critical in imagining and realizing system change - to which this book contributes with global reach and interdisciplinary scope." T.J. Demos, University of California, Santa Cruz

"... an expansive and compelling collection, by world-leading and emergent scholars, of the critical importance of ecology and relationality in both theorizing reparative justice and detailing practices of hopeful care." Mark Jackson, University of Bristol

Author Bio

Dimitris Papadopoulos is Professor of Science, Technology and Society at the University of Nottingham. Maria Puig de la Bellacasa is Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick. Maddalena Tacchetti is Lecturer at the School of Business and Creative Industries at the University of the West of Scotland.