Political Geology: Active Stratigraphies and the Making of Life - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3319981889 ISBN 13 : 9783319981888

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Synopsis

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. Together the authors seek to understand how the geos has been known, spoken for, captured, controlled and represented while creating the active underlying strata for producing worlds.
This comprehensive collection covers a variety of interdisciplinary topics including the history of the geological sciences, non-Western theories of geology, the origin of the earth, and the relationship between humans and nature. It includes chapters that re-think the earth's 'geostory' as well as case studies on the politics of earthquakes in Mexico city, shamans on an Indonesian volcano, geologists at Oxford, and eroding islands in Japan. In each case political geology is attentive to the encounters between political projects and the generative geological materials that are enlisted and often slip, liquefy or erode away. This book will be of great interest to scholars and practitioners across the political and geographical sciences, as well as to philosophers of science, anthropologists and sociologists more broadly.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3319981889
• ISBN 13: 9783319981888
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 390
• Éditeur: Bobbette Adam, Donovan Amy
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