The Social Properties of Concrete

dc.contributorEDITOR: Rubaii, Kali; orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3016-8544; Purdue University System
dc.contributorEDITOR: Elinoff, Eli; orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5356-5003; Victoria University of Wellington
dc.contributor.editorRubaii, Kali
dc.contributor.editorElinoff, Eli
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-07T04:46:57Z
dc.date.available2025-06-07T04:46:57Z
dc.date.issued2025-05-09
dc.date.updated2025-06-07T04:46:54Z
dc.descriptionPublication status: ACTIVE
dc.descriptionFunder: Victoria University of Wellington; ror: https://ror.org/0040r6f76
dc.description.abstractConcrete is a ubiquitous part of our world. It composes our dwellings and shapes our infrastructures. It unites and divides urban space and is used to wage both war and peace. Concrete is simultaneously an indicator of freedom and development and is an essential part of the carceral apparatus. The Social Properties of Concrete begins from the premise that concrete is as richly social as it is densely material. Just as concrete’s materiality permeates our everyday life, our political projects, social practices, religious concepts, environmental transformations, and ethical questions suffuse concrete structures. Like concrete itself, The Social Properties of Concrete is an aggregate: it draws together essays by social scientists, historians, architects, artists, and urban planners who each blend social theory, material science, and empirical analysis to explore the ways in which social life is embedded within concrete and to inquire about how concrete shapes social life. Across forty globally situated chapters, these essays open new conversations around our relationships with anthropogenic stone and serve as a teachable introduction to the social and political lives of materials. By taking this approach, this volume develops a conceptual language and methodological approach that should inform new understandings of material politics and our built environment. The social properties of concrete are neither metaphors nor are they simple reflections of the social. Instead, they are modes of materially enacting social, economic, and political life itself.
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.53288/0405.1.00
dc.identifier.isbn9781685712488
dc.identifier.isbn9781685712495
dc.identifier.other54625e6f-ac14-4a63-8941-7e63dad14670
dc.identifier.urihttps://thoth-arch.lib.cam.ac.uk/handle/1811/880
dc.languageENG
dc.publisherpunctum books
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectARC009000
dc.subjectSOC002010
dc.subject1FKA
dc.subject1FMB
dc.subject1FML
dc.subject1FMT
dc.subjectAMCM
dc.subjectJHMC
dc.subjectKNJC
dc.subjectarchitecture
dc.subjectbuilt environments
dc.subjectcement
dc.subjectconcrete
dc.subjectenvironmental change
dc.subjectinfrastructure
dc.subjectmilitarism
dc.subjectnew materialism
dc.subjectpolitics
dc.titleThe Social Properties of Concrete
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f33
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