Adam Bobbette

The Pulse of the Earth

Political Geology in Java

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2023
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781478020073
• ISBN-10: 1478020075
• Artikelnr.: 66762869

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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