Pub Date : 2023-04-05DOI: 10.28968/cftt.v9i1.38168
L. Grealy, T. Lea
On the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in northwest South Australia, an environmental health worker salvages discarded washing machines to reinstall in remote community homes. Tracking the fate of washing machines and householder well-being, this essay traces the militarized genealogies running contemporary settler colonial occupation in Australia. We are particularly interested in how the colonizing project decants militarized operations into the intimacies of domestic inhabitation. Where once this project facilitated a gendered labor reserve, today it enables the continued pathologization of Indigenous residents, such that renewed interferences and dispossessions may be authorized at policy convenience. This essay is a part of the Roundtable called “The Housewife’s Secret Arsenal” (henceforth HSA); a collection of eight object-oriented engagements focusing on particular material instantiations of domesticated war. The title of this roundtable is deliberately tongue-in-cheek reminding readers of the many ways that militarisms can be invisible to their users yet persistent in the form of mundane household items that aid in the labor of homemaking. Juxtaposing the deliberately stereotyped “housewife” with the theater of war raises questions about the quiet migration of these objects and technologies from battlefield to kitchen, or bathroom, or garden. Gathered together as an “arsenal,” their uncanny proximity to one another becomes a key critical tool in asking how war comes to find itself at home in our lives.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-05DOI: 10.28968/cftt.v9i1.38457
S. Hodžić
To think of Bosnia is to think of war, but militarization precedes and exceeds war, as socialist Yugoslavia located much of its military industry here. The toxic gift of socialist militarization enables people in a small industrial town to survive and stay home at the same time as unfiltered toxic waste makes this home less habitable, poisoning their beloved river. The residents, this article shows, are equally people of the military factory and people of the river, and have to reconcile this dual inheritance. Historicizing the gendered inheritance of socialist militarization and contextualizing neoliberal dispossession and deregulation, this article examines how residents articulate a furtive critique of industrial toxicity in the extended domestic sphere, by which I mean the intimate gatherings in people’s yards and on neighborhood walks and riverside benches that comprise the interstices between public and private where much of Bosnian life is lived. Ethnographically, the article attends to the felt embodiments of dual riverine and militarized inheritance, illuminating furtive complaints of toxicity and poignant fragments of memory told in passing in the extended domestic sphere. Here, residents reclaim their inheritance of the river, planting seeds of dissent and survivance.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-05DOI: 10.28968/cftt.v9i1.38144
Akshita Sivakumar
Data-driven environmental governance within the standard regulatory regime routinely relies on unmeasurable, missing, or abjected data. Technocrats typically use data surrogates to alleviate this pervasive problem. By combining feminist technoscience and critical environmental justice approaches, this article argues that data surrogates are far more than fungible substitutes and rely on more than scientific rationality and transcendent objectivity. Through a case of intersecting environmental governance and justice work in the Portside Community in San Diego, this article exposits a broader conceptualization of data surrogates by developing a partial typology of operations they perform: calibrating, weighting, and validating. The politics and labors of these operations are crucial to analyze how data acquire material and discursive power in environmental governance. I propose an analytical shift from examining the work of data surrogates in terms of substituting to one of hosting. This shift reveals and better explains how data surrogates negotiate relationships between body, place, and property across state, market, and civil society actors. Moreover, it demonstrates how data surrogates interrupt the dominant regulatory regime by resisting fungibility through acts of social reproduction. Far from being subordinate to technocratic tools, the work of social reproduction makes governing with scientific and technical instruments both possible and contestable.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-05DOI: 10.28968/cftt.v9i1.38174
K. Lynes
Pollination is a lynchpin anchoring multispecies survival, but in the racial capitalist configurations of condensed environment agriculture, pollination politics are informed by life-depleting and carceral logics, as well as imaginaries steeped in racial hierarchies and sex binaries that ground future survival in colonial, heteropatriarchal, and normative terms. This article argues that pollination politics are focused on intensifying agriculture and increasing yield within carceral infrastructures, and that the orchestration of pollination is governed by socio-sexual schemas about fitness and fecundity that are governed by a normative reproductive futurism. Joining feminist STS and queer theory, the article traces how forms of life in greenhouses and other agricultural infrastructures are “gardened” in the interests of modes of sustainability that are fundamentally exploitative. Biodiversity is domesticated and depoliticized, and all forms of human and non-human vitality are directed towards increased yield. The naturalization of sexual difference influences how plant life is managed, but also how temporary foreign labor is biopolitically managed in controlled environment agricultural infrastructures. The article reads the perverse politics of scarcity through the South African film Glasshouse (2021) and ends by speculating on how “wild pollination” might present more decolonial, anti-racist, queer, and liberatory sustainable futures.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-05DOI: 10.28968/cftt.v9i1.39207
Josef Nguyen
This article examines how the intended and implied uses and users of emerging commercial sex technologies negotiate understandings of sexual consent as a social fiction articulated as contractual-yet-contingent autonomy and transactional access that is framed as a prerequisite obstacle to sexual gratification. To do so, I analyze the design and marketing of consent-recording applications and sex robots programmed to refuse consent. I draw on science and technology studies, media studies, and feminist and queer theory to investigate both how sexual consent is imaginatively scripted into digital technologies and how imagined digital technologies suggest that we approach and value sexual consent. My analysis foregrounds critical readings of the design imaginaries of promissory digital technologies—speculatively suggested through design and marketing materials—to situate them within cultural politics of consent and digital technology as they express desires for specific worldbuilding fantasies about gender and sex.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-05DOI: 10.28968/cftt.v9i1.38477
Michelle C. Velasquez-Potts
The detention camp at Guantánamo Bay Naval Station has been operative for more than twenty years now. Since 2002 prisoners have been force-fed as punishment for staging individual and collective hunger strikes in protest of indefinite detention. The oldest captive is in his seventies, but the majority are middle-aged. In 2019 Carol Rosenberg reported that with the aging of those incarcerated, the Pentagon is now in the early planning stages for “terrorism suspects” to grow old and die at Guantánamo Bay, necessitating the building of a hospice wing at the detention camp. This essay asks what it means to think of hospice care in a torture facility, arguing that the military is using the possibility of hospice as a curative, both politically and rhetorically, to disavow the effects of torture on the bodyminds of captives.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-05DOI: 10.28968/cftt.v9i1.38252
Kaitlin Stack Whitney
Gardeners around the United States often call in reinforcements for pest control—ladybugs. Ladybug sellers claim that in contrast to chemical pesticides, ladybugs are natural, but the reality is more complicated. Conscripting ladybugs into the war on insect pests at home in the garden is a continuation, not a departure, from the long history of militarized pest control in the US. This trajectory was not inevitable. The divergent discussions and management of the convergent ladybug and the harlequin ladybug reveal a tension. Similar to the other lifeforms that traveled from Asia to the US, the harlequin ladybug is not merely unacknowledged as an effective garden predator but is instead blamed for a wide range of ills. And the longer the harlequin ladybug is around, the less clear it is who the enemy really was, as in modern war. Militarized pest control practices and imaginations have framed insects as both enemy and soldier in the garden, but there are other possibilities beyond seeing ladybugs as good and bad, natural enemy or just enemy. This essay is a part of the Roundtable called “The Housewife’s Secret Arsenal” (henceforth HSA); a collection of eight object-oriented engagements focusing on particular material instantiations of domesticated war. The title of this roundtable is deliberately tongue-in-cheek reminding readers of the many ways that militarisms can be invisible to their users yet persistent in the form of mundane household items that aid in the labor of homemaking. Juxtaposing the deliberately stereotyped “housewife” with the theater of war raises questions about the quiet migration of these objects and technologies from battlefield to kitchen, or bathroom, or garden. Gathered together as an “arsenal,” their uncanny proximity to one another becomes a key critical tool in asking how war comes to find itself at home in our lives.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-05DOI: 10.28968/cftt.v9i1.38452
Zoë Wool
Focusing on US military burn pits in Iraq, this paper traces entanglements between the materials of US war-making, the logistics of global capitalism, and the racialized displacement of toxicity and chemical kinship. In interviews about their experiences of burn pits at Joint Base Balad, a city-sized US military base located in Yathrib, Iraq, US veterans living along the US Gulf Coast linked their exposures to the toxicity of burn pits in Iraq with petrochemical exposures in their everyday lives at home. These links forged a chemical kinship with domestic others, while largely overlooking such kinship with Iraqis who share veterans' body burden. Yet I suggest that in these veterans' attention to logistics and infrastructure lies the possibility of a more expansive account of chemical kinship, one that cuts across the racialized distinctions of foreign and domestic, and gendered imaginaries of the domestic as a comfortable space for the reproduction of homophilic kin. I describe this dual imperative of the domestic as an ideology of domestic security. The toxicity of burn pits helps us to undermine this ideology of domestic security, opening new spaces to reckon with the relation between US and Iraqi experiences of US military toxicity.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-05DOI: 10.28968/cftt.v9i1.40202
Mia Florin-Sefton
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Pub Date : 2023-04-05DOI: 10.28968/cftt.v9i1.38357
Natalia Duong
In recent years, Agent Orange has re-entered scholarly discourse as a fertile site for investigating the confluence of slow violence, intergenerational trauma, and the molecularization of chemical regimes. This study analyzes how the political economy that gave way to the discovery and tactical use of Agent Orange “abroad” during times of “war,” finds several new homes on US soil. First, I discuss how Agent Orange was tested domestically at Eglin Air Force Base in the western Florida Panhandle, prior to and during its use in Vietnam, to trace how civilian workers who worked on base were made into surplus labor through banal daily exposure to the chemical compounds. Second, I analyze how Vietnamese refugees were transported to Eglin Air Force Base in 1975 as it became one of four relocation centers used as temporary “homes” for refugees awaiting sponsorship by US American families. Finally, I trace how herbicides are being reintroduced in the Mekong Delta within rural farming communities to help maintain the demand of global agricultural circuits. By tracing these three interwoven examples of how military herbicides were domesticated, this essay weaves analyses of the spectacular violence of chemical warfare, with their more mundane iterations, to home in on the forms of toxicity that linger and are reproduced at home.
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