Political Geology (eBook)

Active Stratigraphies and the Making of Life

Adam Bobbette, Amy Donovan (Herausgeber)

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2018 | 1st ed. 2019
XI, 379 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-98189-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores the emerging field of political geology, an area of study dedicated to understanding the cross-sections between geology and politics. It considers how geological forces such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and unstable ground are political forces and how political forces have an impact on the earth. Together the authors seek to understand how the geos has been known, spoken for, captured, controlled and represented while creating the active underlying strata for producing worlds. 

This comprehensive collection covers a variety of interdisciplinary topics including the history of the geological sciences, non-Western theories of geology, the origin of the earth, and the relationship between humans and nature. It includes chapters that re-think the earth's 'geostory' as well as case studies on the politics of earthquakes in Mexico city, shamans on an Indonesian volcano, geologists at Oxford, and eroding islands in Japan. In each case political geology is attentive to the encounters between political projects and the generative geological materials that are enlisted and often slip, liquefy or erode away. This book will be of great interest to scholars and practitioners across the political and geographical sciences, as well as to philosophers of science, anthropologists and sociologists more broadly. 

Adam Bobbette is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Amy Donovan is a lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, UK and at King's College London, UK. 

Inhalt

Introduction: Adam Bobbette and Amy Donovan Part I. Knowing the Geos of Politics Chapter 1. Rachael Tily,  Genealogies of Geomorphological Techniques: An STS history Chapter 2. Seth Denizen, Hollow Soil: The Politics of Infiltration in Iztapalapa Chapter 3. Karg Kama, Geo-logics and Geo-politics: Knowledge Controversies in Unconventional Fossil Fuels Development Chapter 4. Deborah Dixon, Mining Hashima: Geopower, Differentiated Vitalism and the Violence of Expropriation Part  II. Amodern Political Geologies Chapter 5. Adam Bobbette, Cosmological reason on a volcano  Chapter 6. Angela Last, Against 'terrenism': Léopold Sédar Senghor, Pierre Teilhard de  Chardin and the fear of a de-spiritualised Earth Cahpter 7. Bronislaw Szerszynski, The Memory of the Earth Part III. Political Geology of the Future Chapter 8. Simone Kotva, Attention in the Anthropocene Chapter 9. Nigel Clark, Meetings with Magma:  Three Political Geologies Chapter 10. Amy Donovan, Explosive Geopolitics and the making of disaster Epilogue: Amy Donovan – Problematising the Earth

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.11.2018
• Zusatzinfo: XI, 379 p. 30 illus., 24 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Amodern Political Geology • Anthropocene • Carbon Footprint • climate change • Cultural geography • Environmental Geography • Geology • Geomorphological Techniques • geo-politics • Geopower • ‘geostory’ • History of Sciences • Human geography • human-geological interactions • magmatic politics • non-Western theories of geology • Political Ecology • Political geology
• ISBN-10: 3-319-98189-7 / 3319981897
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-98189-5 / 9783319981895