Political Geology

Active Stratigraphies and the Making of Life

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-11-13
Mått148 x 210 x 23 mm
Vikt626 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor379
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319981888

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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.