Ice and concrete: Solid fluids of environmental change

Abstract

The research on which this article is based has been supported by the project Solid Fluids in the Anthropocene: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry into the Archaeological Anthropology of Materials (2015–2018), funded by the British Academy for the Humanities and the Social Sciences under its International Partnership and Mobility Scheme. The research has also been supported by the project Concrete Futures: An Inquiry into Modern Life in the Anthropocene with Materials (2015–2018), funded by Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cientifico y Tecnologico (FONDECYT), Chile, No. 11150278. We are grateful to the British Academy and to FONDECYT for their support. An earlier version of this article was presented at the workshop “Time of Materials” organized by Gay Hawkins at the University of Western Sydney. We are grateful to Gay for inviting us to contribute to the event, to Juan Francisco Salazar for making our attendance possible and to Guy Keulemans who, at the workshop, provided detailed comments on the version presented there. We extend our gratitude to two anonymous reviewers, whose generous comments, criticism and suggestions also contributed to the development of our argument.