Ecologies of Power: Countermapping the Logistical Landscapes and Military Geographies of the U.S. Department of Defense
Pierre Belanger
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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 decommissioning morph into realignment and prepositioning. It is in this transitional milieu that the full material magnitudes and geographic entanglements of contemporary militarism ... Read more
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 decommissioning morph into realignment and prepositioning. It is in this transitional milieu that the full material magnitudes and geographic entanglements of contemporary militarism ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
1554 g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262529396
SKU
V9780262529396
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99-15
About Pierre Belanger
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 of Ecologies 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Ecologies of Power: Countermapping the Logistical Landscapes and Military Geographies of the U.S. Department of Defense
Casting astute eyes on a very different landscape, in Ecologies of Power, Pierre Belanger... 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 Magazine Belanger and Arroyo have made an effective case for the extent and import of ... Read more