Capital’s colonization of nature and bodies is built on infrastructure. At the same time, infrastructure is essential to human life and wellbeing. Feminist Infrastructural Critique. Life-Affirming Practices Against Capital foregrounds that use, maintenance, and repair are key to resisting infrastructural violence and injustice. Fourteen contributions by thirty-six authors present feminist infrastructural practices in the context of critical art making, feminist spatial practices and architecture in a wide range of geographies ranging, among others, from the Brazilian Amazon to different cities in Europe, Pakistan, the Seychelles, Syria, Puerto Rico. Taken together they show that infrastructure can be practiced otherwise.
EDITORIAL
INTRODUCTION
FEMINIST INFRASTRUCTURAL CRITIQUE. LIFE-AFFIRMING PRACTICES AGAINST CAPITAL // Elke Krasny, Sophie Lingg
BEITRÄGE
AN ISLAND INFRASTRUCTURE OF GARDENS, GOSSIP, AND ‚GRIGRI’ // Hélène Frichot & Mairi O’Gorman with Najea Barbe
FLOWING INTO BEING: UNVEILING GENTLE ACTS OF RESISTANCE IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON // RETA
CROP SEED MOVEMENTS AS FEMINIST INFRASTRUCTURE // Lilah Leopold
SALAMANDER ENCOUNTERS: A FEMINIST APPROACH TO INFRASTRUCTURAL DIMENSIONS OF ANIMAL–WATER RELATIONS // Mojca Puncer
NOURISHMENT: CERAMICS AND THE DOMESTIC INSTITUTION IN PUERTO RICO // Emilia Quiñones Otal
DECOLONIAL FEMINISM, INFRASTRUCTURAL CONTRADICTIONS, AND THE AESTHETIC IMPACT OF THE ARGENTINEAN PRO-CHOICE GREEN SCARF // Verónica Orsi
INFRASTRUCTURE AS FEMINIST METHODOLOGY: UNDERSTANDING THE RIGHT TO THE CITY THROUGH INFRASTRUCTURAL OBJECTS // Luce Beeckmans, Alessandra Gola, Shila Anaraki, Tasneem Nagi & Heleen Verheyden
KITCHEN WORKSHOP: CITYZENSHIP AS INFRASTRUCTURE // Merve Bedir
PUBLIC ART AS SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE. RE-IMAGINING AND RE-WRITING URBAN POLICY // Miriam Kreuzer
–1.153 CHARACTERS. TOWARDS A QUEERFEMINIST INFRASTRUCTURAL CRITIQUE OF WIKIPEDIA // Hannah Schmedes
FEMINIST NIGHTSCAPES // Elke Krasny, Sophie Lingg & Claudia Lomoschitz
INFRASTRUCTURES UNDER PRESSURE: PRACTICING WITH SITES OF STRUGGLE // Ecologies of Care
DIVERGENT SPACES, AFFIRMATIVE INFRASTRUCTURES // Lindsay Harkema
“MILAAP: WHERE SALT MEETS THE SWEET WATER”
LEARNING FROM INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIAL SPATIAL JUSTICE
WOMEN/WATER/LAND/FRACTURED RELATIONS // Marvi Mazhar
EDITION
REWILDING AND REWRITING // Joulia Strauss