Ecologies of Power
Countermapping the Logistical Landscapes and Military Geographies of the U.S. Department of Defense
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- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
21 October 2016
Summary
Countermapping the geospatial footprint of the U.S. Department of Defense to reveal the making, unmaking, and remaking of a vast military-logistical landscape.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 dec…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262529396 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262529394 |
| Author: | Alexander Arroyo, Pierre Bélanger |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 21 October 2016 |
| Weight: | 1.55kg |
| Dimensions: | 251mm x 194mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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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 MagazineBélanger 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 EducationBélanger 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 JournalThis 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 SurvivalAbout The Author
Alexander Arroyo
Pierre Belanger, an independent landscape architect and urbanist, is editor of Extraction Empire- Undermining the Systems, States, and Scales of Canada’s Global Resource Empire, coauthor ofEcologies 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.
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