Reactivating Elements: Chemistry, Ecology, Practice

by Maria Puig de la Bellacasa

Book Overview

The contributors to Reactivating Elements examine chemicals as they mix with soil, air, water, and fire to shape Earth's troubled ecologies today. They invoke the elements with all their ambivalences as chemical categories, material substances, social forms, forces and energies, cosmological entities, and epistemic objects. Engaging with the nonlinear historical significance of elemental thought across fields--chemistry, the biosciences, engineering,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478014369
• ISBN13: 9781478014362
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"