Main entry:

Bélanger, Pierre, 1971- author.

Title & Author:

Ecologies of power : countermapping the logistical landscapes & military geographies of the U.S. Department of Defense / Pierre Bélanger & Alexander S. Arroyo ; foreword by Colonel John M. Collins, U.S. Army (Ret.).

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]

Description:

448 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-437) and index.
Front matter ; processes & projections of power -- Case studies ; sites, systems, strategies, scales of power -- DG ; logistics islands: the global supply archipelago & the topologics of defense -- IED ; infrastructure & improvisation: a geopolitical archaeology of the roadside bomb -- MM ; from milk to minerals: nutritional politics & infrastructural climates of military food operations -- UAS ; unmanned aerial systems: sensing the ecology of remote operational environments -- DC ; Washington, D.C.: profiling a landscape of defense & instruments of power in the nation's capital -- Back matter ; surplus powers -- Residuum ; the sixth footprint.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9780262529396 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262529394 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

United States. Department of Defense.
Military bases, American.
Military geography United States.
Bases militaires américaines.
Géographie militaire États-Unis.
Military geography.
United States.

Added entries:

Arroyo, Alexander S., author.

Countermapping the logistical landscapes & military geographies of the U.S. Department of Defense

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293649
Call No.: BIB 238761
Status: Available