Churning

To prevent premature curing, concrete must be churned continuously. Laying wet concrete also entails the churning of histories; new urban landscapes mix ongoing social turmoil with legacies of competing territorialities. This chapter explores the convergence of these forms of churning. Concrete gathers political force, mixing old and new terrains of struggle by recombining unsettled layers of Indigenous, migrant, and colonial peoples’ presence on the land in new built forms.