We understand the title Roadsides as a metaphorical proxy for all sorts of engagements arising alongside infrastructure as they are imagined, contested, constructed, and maintained, and as they fall into disrepair. The journal offers space for reflection, for engaging in conversation with others, and a place to test new ideas before developing them into full-length articles and books.
This collection conceptualizes the changing cryosphere as infrastructure that unfolds through non-built yet relational environmental formations. It foregrounds snow and ice as more-than-physical assemblages utilised and co-created by humans and non-human worlds. Across mountain ranges and polar regions, historical, ethnographic and artistic contributions call for epistemological reorientation: rather than a frozen backdrop, the cryosphere emerges as sensitive, dynamic infrastructure.
