Yusoff Geologic Life

Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-4780-5928-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 560 Seiten

Kathryn Yusoff examines the history of geology as a discipline to theorize how race and racialization emerged from Western production of geologic knowledge.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yusoff, Kathryn

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Coordinates (0°0' Longitude, 51°N Latitude) 1
Geologic Life Analytic 27
Geologic Life Lexicon 31
I. Geology’s Margins
1. Insurgent Geology and Fugitive Life 39
2. Rift Theory 77
3. Underground Aesthetics 97
II. Geologic Histories and Theories
4. “Fathering” Geology 121
5. Geologic Grammars 193
6. Stratigraphic Thought and the Metaphysics of the Strata 236
7. Geopower: Materialisms before Biopolitics 255
III. Inhuman Epistemologies
8. Inhuman Matters I: Black Earth and Abyssal Futurity 295
9. Inhuman Matter II: Deep Timing and Undergrounding in the Carceral Mine 343
10. Inhuman Matters III: Stealing Suns 378
11. Inhuman Matters IV: Modernity, Urbanism, and the Spatial Fix of Whiteness 401
12. Inhuman Matters V: Trees of Life (and Death), “Strange Fruit,” and Geologies of Race 438
IV. Paradigms of Geologic Life
13. Ghost Geology 477
Acknowledgments 497
Notes 501
References 559
Index 583

Über Autor(innen)

Kathryn Yusoff is Professor of Inhuman Geography at Queen Mary University of London and author of A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None.