Description
Political Geology, 1st ed. 2019
Active Stratigraphies and the Making of Life
Coordinators: Bobbette Adam, Donovan Amy
Language: EnglishSubjects for Political Geology:
Keywords
Political geology; political ecology; Anthropocene; history of sciences; geology; human-geological interactions; Geomorphological Techniques; Geo-politics; Geopower; non-Western theories of geology; ‘geostory’; cultural geography; human geography; Amodern Political Geology; magmatic politics; climate change; carbon footprint; Environmental Geography
Support: Print on demand
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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.
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.