Bobbette The Pulse of the Earth

Political Geology in Java
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2708-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

Adam Bobbette tells the story of how modern theories of the earth emerged from the slopes of Indonesia’s volcanoes, showing that the origin of the earth sciences emerged from a fusion of Western and non-Western cosmology, theology, anthropology, and geology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bobbette, Adam

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xix
1. Political Geology as Method 1
2. The Origins of Java in Four Maps: From an Island of Ruins to Youthful Throes 20
3. Intercalated: The Political and Spiritual Geographies of Plate Tectonics 52
4. AD 1006 Geodeterminism: Cultures of Catastrophe and the Story of a Date 80
5. Geopoetics: Joannes Umbgrove’s Cosmic and Aesthetic Science 114
6. Volcano Observatories: Proximity and Distance in Science and Mysticism 142
Conclusion 175
Notes 179
Bibliography 197
Index 215

Über Autor(innen)

Adam Bobbette is Lecturer in Political Geology at the University of Glasgow and coeditor of Political Geology: Active Stratigraphies and the Making of Life.