Revealing Relations, livre ebook

Proposes a shift from extractive data logics to infrastructures of care and interdependence;

Offers tools for rethinking interfaces, data collection and digital trust in environmental science;

Brings together feminist critique and STS to guide sustainable knowledge design.

Available open access digitally under CC BY-NC-ND licence.

Do our tools for knowing about the world actually obscure important knowledge?

This book uncovers how knowledge infrastructures—including satellite tracking, climate models, machine learning and citizen science apps—shape our understanding of contemporary crises. Rooted in logics of resource assessment, these systems often reinforce extractive thinking, even when intended to protect.

Beaulieu calls for a radical focus on relations to reimagine liveable futures: from monitoring and measuring to fostering connection, care and interdependence.

Drawing on science and technology studies and feminist critique, this book offers tools for transforming data practices, designing more responsive interfaces and building better infrastructures of survival.

Chapter 1: Knowledge Infrastructures for Liveable Futures

Chapter 2: Hiding and Revealing Relations

Chapter 3: Growth, Materiality and Infrastructured Life

Chapter 4: Careful Relations: Transformative Encounters, Arts of Noticing and Discernment

Chapter 5: Interfaces for New Relations

Chapter 6: Working Towards Change: Transformation, Strategy and Hope