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Magnetism of strangeness: Silenced histories of landscapes
History and Anthropology ( IF 0.752 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 , DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2021.1946046
Daniel Sosna 1, 2
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ABSTRACT

Why do certain parts of landscape become places for waste disposal? This simple question seems to be easy to answer given the existence of sophisticated tools for formal modelling of a range of environmental, economic, social, and political variables which are supposed to minimize risk, cost, and disequity. There are, however, more subtle factors that shape waste disposal and its inscription in landscape. Using examples of two Czech landfills and drawing upon my ethnographic research of wastescapes, I examine how history, economic interests, social practices, events, material indeterminacies, and multispecies encounters took part in the transformation of these places into loci of ‘strangeness’. Using a metaphor of magnetism I refocus our attention to a capacity of strange entities such as garbage, rubble, military waste, dead bodies, animal farms, and shooting ranges to attract each other along a spatiotemporal continuum. I argue that strangeness sticks to places and tends to perpetuate itself through a series of ‘magnetic’ relations over time. This magnetism stems from the human propensity to classify and dispose of entities whose open-endedness is dangerous and must be controlled through placement. While this process of placement is often imagined as a management of absence, I point to a dialectical relationship to the opposite category of presence as a critical source of magnetism. Waste management, then, becomes envisioned as part of a more general social process that keeps the world meaningful.



中文翻译:

陌生的魅力:沉默的风景历史

摘要

为什么景观的某些部分会成为垃圾处理场?这个简单的问题似乎很容易回答,因为存在对一系列环境、经济、社会和政治变量进行正式建模的复杂工具,这些变量应该最大限度地减少风险、成本和不公平。然而,还有一些更微妙的因素影响着废物处理及其在景观中的铭文。我以两个捷克垃圾填埋场为例,并借鉴我对荒地的人种学研究,研究了历史、经济利益、社会实践、事件、物质不确定性和多物种相遇如何参与这些地方转变为“陌生”场所的过程。使用磁力的比喻,我将我们的注意力重新集中在奇怪实体的容量上,例如垃圾、瓦砾、军事废物、尸体、动物农场、和射击场沿着时空连续体相互吸引。我认为,陌生感会附着在某个地方,并且随着时间的推移,往往会通过一系列“磁力”关系而永久存在。这种吸引力源于人类对实体进行分类和处理的倾向,这些实体的开放性是危险的,必须通过放置来控制。虽然这种放置过程通常被想象为对缺席的管理,但我指出与作为磁性关键来源的相反存在类别的辩证关系。因此,废物管理被视为更普遍的社会进程的一部分,使世界保持有意义。我认为,陌生感会附着在某个地方,并且随着时间的推移,往往会通过一系列“磁力”关系而永久存在。这种吸引力源于人类对实体进行分类和处理的倾向,这些实体的开放性是危险的,必须通过放置来控制。虽然这种放置过程通常被想象为对缺席的管理,但我指出与作为磁性关键来源的相反存在类别的辩证关系。因此,废物管理被视为更普遍的社会进程的一部分,使世界保持有意义。我认为,陌生感会附着在某个地方,并且随着时间的推移,往往会通过一系列“磁力”关系而永久存在。这种吸引力源于人类对实体进行分类和处理的倾向,这些实体的开放性是危险的,必须通过放置来控制。虽然这种放置过程通常被想象为对缺席的管理,但我指出与作为磁性关键来源的相反存在类别的辩证关系。因此,废物管理被视为更普遍的社会进程的一部分,使世界保持有意义。我指出与作为磁力关键来源的相反存在类别的辩证关系。因此,废物管理被视为更普遍的社会进程的一部分,使世界保持有意义。我指出与作为磁力关键来源的相反存在类别的辩证关系。因此,废物管理被视为更普遍的社会进程的一部分,使世界保持有意义。

更新日期:2021-06-25
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