Political Geology

Active Stratigraphies and the Making of Life

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-11-13
Mått:148 x 210 x 23 mm
Vikt:626 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:379
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319981888

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

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.