Barry Material Politics

Disputes Along the Pipeline
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-52910-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: RGS-IBG Book Series

In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that aswe are beginning to attend to the importance of materials inpolitical life, materials has become increasingly bound up with theproduction of information about their performance, origins, andimpact.

* Presents an original theoretical approach to politicalgeography by revealing the paradoxical relationship betweenmaterials and politics

* Explores how political disputes have come to revolve not aroundobjects in isolation, but objects that are entangled in evergrowing quantities of information about their performance, origins,and impact

* Studies the example of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline- a fascinating experiment in transparency and corporatesocial responsibility - and its wide-spread negativepolitical impact

* Capitalizes on the growing interdisciplinary interest,especially within geography and social theory, about the criticalrole of material artefacts in political life

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barry, Andrew

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editors' Preface viii
List of Figures and Tables ix
Acknowledgements x
Abbreviations xiii
1 Introduction 1
2 The Georgian Route: Between Political and Physical Geography31
3 Transparency ' s Witness 57
4 Ethical Performances 75
5 The Affected Public 95
6 Visible Impacts 116
7 Material Politics 137
8 Economy and the Archive 154
9 Conclusions 177
Notes 187
References 202
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Barry is Professor of Human Geography at University College London.