Postindustrial Ecologies: Industrial Rubble, Nature and the Limits of Representation

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  • Liviu Chelcea
  • Liviu CHELCEA
چکیده

Ex-industrial areas, which occupy about 15 per cent of Bucharest’ssurface, have generated emergent ecologies during the post-socialist period. Theopen-ended, eclectic and hard-to-define nature of such sites resists the commoninterpretations in terms of (industrial) heritage, nature, creative industries or speculative real estate development. Consequently, such postindustrial ecologiesshould be approached in a non-teleological way: neither as sanitized ruins, nor asfetishised nature, but as provisional ex-industrial materialities transformed by newhuman and non-human actors. I identify four main processes unfolding in such sites:urban mining; use as playgrounds for children; use as refuges for marginal humansand animals; and struggles for signification. None of these predominates. RÉSUMÉ : Les anciennes zones industrielles de Bucarest, qui occupent environ 15 %de la surface de la ville, ont généré des écologies émergentes au cours de la périodepost-socialiste. Le caractère ouvert, éclectique et difficile à définir de tels sites résisteaux interprétations communes en termes de patrimoine (industriel), de nature,d’industries créatives ou de développement immobilier spéculatif. Par conséquent,ces écologies postindustrielles doivent être abordées d'une manière non-téléologique :ni comme des ruines assainies, ni encore comme une nature fétichisée, mais en tantque matérialités ex-industrielles provisoires, transformées par de nouveaux acteurshumains et non-humains. J’identifie dans cet article quatre processus principaux quise déroulent sur ces sites : des activités d’extraction urbaine (urban mining) ; desusages en tant qu’aire de jeux pour enfants ; des emplois comme refuge pourindividus et animaux marginalisés ; des luttes pour donner du sens à ces lieux.Aucune de ces pratiques ne prédomine sur les autres.

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تاریخ انتشار 2016