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From Vital Infrastructure to Infrastructural Vitalism From Vital Infrastructure to Infrastructural Vitalism
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Useless Tidal Flats? A Brief History Useless Tidal Flats? A Brief History
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Ecology, Violence, and Flux in San Pedro Bay Ecology, Violence, and Flux in San Pedro Bay
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The Multispecies, the Human, and the Nonhuman The Multispecies, the Human, and the Nonhuman
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Abstract
Opening with a 2019 U.S. government proposal to “restore” part of San Pedro Bay, this book excavates a world system of goods, information, and nonhuman life forms. This is a natural bay twenty-odd miles straight south from downtown Los Angeles, which is now massively important in US trade. Over the past half century or so, policymakers instituted regulations intended to respond to a regime of infrastructure building that had rapidly altered ecologies. Looking at the rise of scale alongside environmental regulation from 1970-present, Oil Beach denaturalizes the infrastructural and economic “vitality” of a system in which the port complex is a node. It re-provincializes global systems of trade and energy by juxtaposing them with local coastline management. In the twentieth century, environmental sciences played a major role in planning and maintaining, as well as combating large infrastructural systems. Whether this constitutes a harmonious or conflictual undertaking is not straightforward, especially in locations designed to mediate between global and local scales like the Los Angeles port complex. Local multispecies stories illuminate lively and deadly relations amongst wildlife, capital, petroleum, and biological commodities. The book refers to regional managers’ belief in nurturing infrastructure (often at cost to organismic life) as infrastructural vitalism.
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