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