Technomolecular flows in coastal cities: an anthropological approach to new materialist ethics of the anthropogenic microscale

IF 2.2 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Maritime Studies Pub Date : 2024-06-27 DOI:10.1007/s40152-024-00377-x
Raúl Acosta
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Urban life is crisscrossed and affected by events and matter in various scales, of which the microscopic has been only partly addressed in scholarship and policymaking. In this article, I propose that it is urgent to incorporate new materialist ethics for a better urban governance of technomolecular flows, that is the multiple ways anthropogenically induced microscopic elements are affecting cities. Chemicals, minerals, fungi, viruses, bacteria, and other forms of life and matter affect human and environmental health as well as the shape and materials of the built environment. Coastal cities are particularly prone to such flows of chemical-, mineral- and bio-materials because of their location between sea and land. Existing legal and institutional frameworks tend to lag behind the uses of microscopic elements by industry and urban dwellers. A new materialist ethics would help rethink institutional architectures and responses to existing entanglements and the emerging risks they pose.

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沿海城市的技术分子流动:从人类学角度探讨人类活动微观层面的新唯物主义伦理学
城市生活纵横交错,受到各种尺度的事件和物质的影响,其中微观尺度的事件和物质在学术研究和政策制定中只得到了部分关注。在这篇文章中,我提出当务之急是纳入新唯物主义伦理学,以更好地治理城市的技术分子流,即人类活动引起的微观要素影响城市的多种方式。化学品、矿物质、真菌、病毒、细菌以及其他形式的生命和物质影响着人类和环境的健康,也影响着建筑环境的形状和材料。沿海城市由于地处海陆之间,尤其容易受到化学、矿物和生物材料流动的影响。现有的法律和制度框架往往落后于工业和城市居民对微观元素的使用。新的唯物主义伦理学将有助于重新思考体制结构和应对现有的纠葛及其带来的新风险。
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Maritime Studies
Maritime Studies ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-
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期刊介绍: Maritime Studies is an international peer-reviewed journal on the social dimensions of coastal and marine issues throughout the world. The journal is a venue for theoretical and empirical research relevant to a wide range of academic social science disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, geography, history and political science. Space is especially given to develop academic concepts and debate. We invite original research papers, reviews and viewpoints and welcome proposals for special issues that make a distinctive contribution to contemporary discussion around maritime and coastal use, development and governance. The journal provides a rigorous but constructive review process and rapid publication, and is accessible to new researchers, including postgraduate students and early career academics.
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