“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.”
This looks like a great collection!
Table of Contents
Political Geology: An Introduction
Adam Bobbette, Amy Donovan
Political Geologies of Knowledge
Front Matter
Pages 35-35
Genealogies of Geomorphological Techniques
Rachael Tily
Pages 37-69
Baroque Soil: Mexico City in the Aftermath
Seth Denizen
Pages 71-104
Geo-Metrics and Geo-Politics: Controversies in Estimating European Shale Gas Resources
Kärg Kama, Magdalena Kuchler
Pages 105-145
From Becoming-Geology to Geology-Becoming: Hashima as Geopolitics
Deborah Dixon
Pages 147-165
Amodern Political Geologies
Front Matter
Pages 167-167
Cosmological Reason on a Volcano
Adam Bobbette
Pages 169-199
Against ‘Terrenism’: Léopold Sédar Senghor, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Fear of a De-spiritualised Earth
Angela Last
Pages 201-217
How the Earth Remembers and Forgets
Bronislaw Szerszynski
Pages 219-236
Political Geologies of the Future
Front Matter
Pages 237-237
Attention in the Anthropocene: On the Spiritual Exercises of Any Future Science
Simone Kotva
Pages 239-261
Political Geologies of Magma
Nigel Clark
Pages 263-292
Politics of the Lively Geos: Volcanism and Geomancy in Korea
Amy Donovan
Pages 293-343
Epilogue
Front Matter
Pages 345-345
Encountering the Earth: Political Geological Futures?
Adam Bobbette, Amy Donovan
Pages 347-371
Back Matter
Pages 373-379
Philosophy of Movement 