The aim of the Dis-Positions book series is to bring together recent work in the emerging intersections of such disciplines as sociology, anthropology, history, geography, design and philosophy, not least as they bear on the broad field of science and technology studies (STS). Conversely, if STS is undergoing major shifts in how it engages with ‘the social’ and the question of ‘societies’, it raises vital matters of concern for these various disciplines and their inter-connections. Dis-Positions thus provides a platform on which varieties of generative mutualities across these areas of scholarship can be presented. In this respect, Dis-Positions is undergirded by a desire to promote novel fields of inquiry, adventurous theoretical and empirical projects and inventive methodological practices. It seeks to encourage authors to address live debates, while drawing on and interrogating developments across academic areas, in the process disturbing and repatterning STS.

In pursuing this ethos, Dis-Positions comprises a consolidated, rigorous and proactive space through which creative and critical new perspectives in STS and beyond can find a voice. Under this rubric fall: discussions of the posthuman, post-colonial, affective and aesthetic; methodological inventions that incorporate speculative, engaged, entangled, and sociomaterial practices; empirical novelty that ranges from emergent technoscientific innovations to reformulations of the ordinary; and conceptually creative and critical developments that capture processual and pluralistic thought, extensions of assemblage and practice theories, and the turns to affect and post-performativity.

We are immensely proud to have the superb edited volume by Dimitris Papadopoulos, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa and Maddalena Tacchetti, Ecological Reparation: Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict, as the inaugural volume of the Dis-Positions book series. Ecological Reparation is concerned with how to rethink social-environmental degradation so that we are better equipped to respond to – remediate and recover – the damaged ecologies that comprise a deteriorating global context. However, the volume is not a typical example of academic practice: rather, it is also immersed in the endeavours of social and environmental justice movements and policy. Indeed, together these latter serve as a necessary backdrop of, and an intended constituency for, Ecological Reparation. It is no easy task to marry these analytic, practical and political objectives but Papadopoulos, Puig de la Bellacasa and Tacchetti have done a superb job of pursuing these aims within and across the various chapters that make up Ecological Reparation.