Andrew Barry 
Material Politics [EPUB ebook] 
Disputes Along the Pipeline

In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that as
we are beginning to attend to the importance of materials in
political life, materials has become increasingly bound up with the
production of information about their performance, origins, and
impact.

* Presents an original theoretical approach to political
geography by revealing the paradoxical relationship between
materials and politics

* Explores how political disputes have come to revolve not around
objects in isolation, but objects that are entangled in ever
growing quantities of information about their performance, origins,
and impact

* Studies the example of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline
– a fascinating experiment in transparency and corporate
social responsibility – and its wide-spread negative
political impact

* Capitalizes on the growing interdisciplinary interest,
especially within geography and social theory, about the critical
role of material artefacts in political life

Table of Content

Series Editors’ Preface viii

List of Figures and Tables ix

Acknowledgements x

Abbreviations xiii

1 Introduction 1

2 The Georgian Route: Between Political and Physical Geography
31

3 Transparency ‘ s Witness 57

4 Ethical Performances 75

5 The Affected Public 95

6 Visible Impacts 116

7 Material Politics 137

8 Economy and the Archive 154

9 Conclusions 177

Notes 187

References 202

Index

About the author

Andrew Barry is Professor of Human Geography at University College London.