Speculations on the postnatural: Restoration, accumulation, and sacrifice at the Salton Sea
Speculations on the postnatural: Restoration, accumulation, and sacrifice at the Salton Sea
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对后自然的推测：索尔顿海的恢复、积累和牺牲
DOI：
10.1177/0308518x18796510
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2018
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S. Knuth
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Alida Cantor;S. Knuth
本文从区域政治生态学的透镜，探讨了主流环境主义中出现的“后自然”生态现代主义转向的地理学和政治学。我们研究的生态恢复和可再生能源的发展，在南加州的索尔顿海展开的情况下。通过将其改造为地热能发电和高科技绿色产业的中心来恢复这个巨大的、日益退化的湖泊（并为恢复提供资金）的雄心勃勃的建议，取决于在一个长期被归类为后自然的环境中恢复的模糊性和可塑性。这些计划与加州沙漠中更广泛的可再生能源地点的热潮以及与传统农业工业利益的水和土地冲突日益加剧相吻合。这个案例说明了后自然环境论中的重大问题。首先，它展示了后自然的理论如何与绿色资本主义的重新（e）估价和发展项目交叉，因为海洋的管理者操纵环境框架来支持积累思想的项目，积累的必要性淹没了恢复的其他功能。与此同时，尽管后自然的话语蓬勃发展，“原始”被证明是做持续的工作，因为海洋成为一个牺牲区的发展偏离更好的保护空间。这种后自然的定位使索尔顿海容易受到新自由主义紧缩和投机的影响，从而危及其未来的存在。
Using a regional political ecology lens, this paper explores emerging geographies and politics of a “postnatural” ecomodernist turn in mainstream environmentalism. We examine the unfolding case of ecological restoration and renewable energy development at Southern California’s Salton Sea. Ambitious proposals to restore the massive, increasingly degraded lake (and finance restoration) by reengineering it as a hub for geothermal energy generation and high-tech green industry hinge upon the ambiguity and malleability of restoration in an environment long classified as postnatural. These plans coincide with a broader rush on renewable energy sites in the California desert, and mounting conflicts over water and land with legacy agro-industrial interests. The case illustrates significant problems within postnatural environmentalism. First, it demonstrates how theorizations of the postnatural can intersect with green capitalist projects of re(e)valuation and development, as the Sea’s managers manipulate environmental framings to support accumulation-minded projects, and accumulation imperatives swamp other functionalities of restoration. Meanwhile, despite the flourishing of postnatural discourses, the “pristine” is shown to do continued work as the Sea becomes a sacrifice zone for development deflected from better-protected spaces. This postnatural positioning has rendered the Salton Sea vulnerable to neoliberal austerity and speculation in ways that compromise its future existence.