Aesthetics of Geopower

Simon Ferdinand is a Veni Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, where he writes on the politics and poetics of mapping and cultural visions of the whole earth. Simon is the author of a monograph, Mapping Beyond Measure: Art, Cartography, and the Space of Global Modernity (Nebraska University Press, 2019), and coeditor of Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2020) and Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization (Palgrave, 2019). Alongside his research, which is currently funded by the Dutch Research Council, Simon runs English Academic Editing, which supports scholars preparing research for publication. Colin Sterling is Senior Lecturer in Heritage, Museums and the Environment at the University of Amsterdam. His research explores the social, political and ecological dimensions of heritage and museums in the past and the present. He is the author of Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past (Routledge, 2020) and co-editor of Deterritorializing the Future: Heritage in, of and after the Anthropocene (Open Humanities Press, 2020). Colin has published over fifty articles, essays, book chapters, reviews and other texts in peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes, exhibition catalogues and magazines. His research has been funded by – amongst others – the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, Horizon Europe, the British Academy, and the Dutch Research Council. He is editor of the journal Museums & Social Issues.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: An Aesthetics of the Earth for a New Age of GeopowerSimon Ferdinand and Colin SterlingPart I.Extractive Horizons: IntroductionSimon Ferdinand and Colin Sterling1. Futures Under Water: Deep-Sea Mining and Aquatic VisualityTheo Reeves-Evison 2. Between Geognosy and Geopower in Greenland: Peter Høeg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling for SnowIrina Souch3. From Moulds to Energy Vessels: Reinventing the Socialist Subject in the Extractive ZoneTim Shao-Hung Tang4. Gas Flares and Oily Deaths: The Geo-Necropolitics of the Niger Delta in Tanure Ojaide’s The Tale of the HarmattanTem Edwin Nji5. Chimerica’s Geopalette: Gendered Aestheticide in China’s Technoeconomic ResurgenceShana Leodar YePart IIConflicted Sovereignties: IntroductionSimon Ferdinand and Colin Sterling6. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Noopiming: (W)righting Epistemic Injustices on and with Anishinaabe LandDoro Wiese7. A ‘Fault Line of Pain’: N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy, Global Risk and the Afrofuturist Planetary ImaginationDavid Shackleton 8. Enduring Currents: Oceanic Cosmologies, Vā Praxis and Geopower in the Global PacificHelen Gilbert & Jasmin ‘Ofamo’oni9. Power Over, Power To, Power Through: Ukraine and Climate Imaginaries at ScaleAsia Bazdyrieva10. Geo/power/lessness: On Post-Planetary AestheticsBrad TabasPart IIIEarthly Vitalities: IntroductionSimon Ferdinand and Colin Sterling11. Culture in the Web of Life: Geopower and Metabolism in Latin AmericaSantiago Acosta12. Anatomy of the Planet: A Genealogy of the Sick EarthLijuan Klassen13. On the Pluriversal Bodies of the EarthFederico Luisetti14. Geontological Survey of Ochre: Mapping GeopowerElpitha Tsoutsounakis 15. Herðubreið: Mountainous Geopower and Deep TimeEdward H. HuijbensIndex