Making risk real: Urban trees and the ontological politics of risk |
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| Institution: | 1. Instituto de Investigación en Señales, Sistemas e Inteligencia Computacional, sinc(i), CONICET-UNL, Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Hídricas, Ruta Nac. 168, km 472.4, C.P. 3000, Santa Fe, Argentina;2. Instituto de Matemática Aplicada del Litoral, IMAL, CONICET-UNL, Centro Científico Tecnológico CONICET-Santa Fe, Colectora Ruta Nac. 168, km. 472, Paraje “El Pozo”, C.P. 3000, Santa Fe, Argentina;3. Departamento de Matemática, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina;4. Departamento de Matemática, Facultad de Ingeniería Química, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina;5. Departamento de Matemática, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina;1. Department of Ecology, Biogeochemistry and Environmental Protection, University of Wroc?aw, ul. Kanonia 6/8, 50-328 Wroc?aw, Poland;2. Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Wroc?aw, Cybulskiego 30, 50-205 Wroclaw, Poland;3. Department of Neutron Activation Analysis and Applied Research, Division of Nuclear Physics, Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Str. Joliot-Curie, 6, Dubna 141980, Moscow Region, Russian Federation;4. Radboud University Nijmegen, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Department of Environmental Science, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | Over the past several decades, risk has become a distinct field of social inquiry as scholars in a variety of disciplines have developed theories about the ‘nature’ of risk and the role it plays in contemporary society. Collectively, these theories enrich our understanding of the politics of risk, the dynamics of risk perception, and the way risk shapes and is shaped by space, culture, social change, and modes of governing in the neoliberal era. In this paper, however, we argue these theories are helpful but not entirely suited to understanding risk when it becomes the subject of something Whatmore (2009, p. 587, 2013) calls “environmental knowledge controversies”. These controversies are generative events where more-than-human agencies and the political and knowledge making practices of heterogeneous actors reshape our sense of the real. To address this issue, we draw on the concepts of enactment, multiplicity, and ontological politics to explore how different kinds of risk and tree were made more or less real during a contentious debate over the risk posed by a group of urban trees in Newcastle, Australia. This case study suggests we can think of risk and hazardous entities like trees as effects that also affect because they elicit interventions that transform bodies and spaces in more or less enduring ways. Attending to the enactment, multiplicity, and ontological politics of risk, we argue, provides an alternative way to navigate moments of political contestation over the assessment and management of risk that has implications for how these processes are conceived and conducted in the future. |
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| Keywords: | Risk Trees Ontological politics Multiplicity Enactment More-than-human |
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