Ecologies of Power
Subtitle: Countermapping the Logistical Landscapes and Military Geographies of the U.S. Department of Defense
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: Oct 21, 2016
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780262529396
Description: Weaving together an extraordinary range of visual media and original geographic work, this critical cartographic volume countermaps the geospatial footprint of the U.S. Department of Defense beyond the battlefield, revealing a vast and shifting military-logistical landscape reshaping infrastructures and environments at every scale. Moving beyond conventional military geographies of combat zones and covert operations, Pierre Bélanger and Alexander Arroyo explore the forces and forms of this landscape from the molecular and metabolic to the political and the planetary, giving new dimension to familiar military milieux of land, air, sea, and space. In so doing, they trace out a growing assemblage of logistically linked "operational environments," where militarized, demilitarized, and non-militarized landscapes are ever more entangled. It is in this assemblage that they find emergent ecologies of power at work in the making, unmaking, and remaking of operational environments across existing, emerging, and future horizons.
Notes: Source title: Ecologies of Power: Countermapping the Logistical Landscapes and Military Geographies of the U.S. Department of Defense (The MIT Press)