Pierre Bélanger ist ein unabhängiger Landschaftsarchitekt und Stadtplaner, dessen Arbeit die Systeme und Geographien globaler Rohstoffimperien hinterfragt. Seine Schriften befassen sich eingehend mit dem komplexen Zusammenspiel von Natur, Technologie und menschlicher Gesellschaft, oft durch eine kritische Linse auf Infrastruktur und deren Folgen. Bélanger analysiert, wie Landschaften durch logistische und militärische Kräfte geformt und transformiert werden, und bietet tiefe Einblicke in diese Prozesse. Sein Ansatz betont die Notwendigkeit, unsere Beziehungen zur Umwelt und zu den sie gestaltenden Systemen neu zu überdenken.
Composed as a geopolitical treatise, this book proposes a counter-map to rebuild relations with the Cinchona plant and to challenge territorial destruction that continue to increase amidst state-sanctioned resource extraction and benevolent conservation.
Focusing on infrastructure as a multifaceted instrument, this book presents strategies for rethinking and reclaiming knowledge related to urbanization. It explores how infrastructure acts not only as a physical entity but also as an influential effect and interface in contemporary urban processes, encouraging a deeper investment in this critical field of study and practice.
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