No Man's Land: The American Military Landscape as the New American Park

Military landscapes are often seen as ecologically desolate territories with harsh and barren conditions. Yet, there is growing evidence that these volatile lands are finding a second life as animal refuges, born out of necessity under the growing effects of the Anthropocene and sixth wave of mass extinction. It is the very nature of the military landscape – weaponized, contaminated, protected – that deters regular human activity and allows this new, damaged Nature to appear. These new cyborg landscapes, where technology meets ecology, tell a story of a post-human future where new ecological relationships are formed between the military pollutants and the animals that inhabit the land. NO MAN’S LAND presents an analysis at two scales: the global and the local.

Volume Editors
Amir Ameri & Rebecca O'Neal Dagg

ISBN
978-1-944214-14-2