Granular Configurations New is a book of provocations

is a book of provocations wherein the reader-as-exhibition-viewer learns that the “head

these sensual acts help to materialize narratives that have been silenced or rendered invisible

O’Beirn is based in Belfast and teaches at Ulster University

for Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation Palestine

Michaela Büsse is an interdisciplinary researcher and practitioner based in Berlin

Granular Configurations New is a book of provocationsGranular Configurations: Sand, Materiality, and Planetary Urbanization explores the worlds most usedyet often overlookedbuilding material: sand. Bringing together voices from geography, geology, social sciences, art, and the humanities, the book traces how sand moves and transforms, resisting easy capture by political and ecological systems. From extractive practices and colonial legacies to fragile infrastructures and grassroots struggles, sand