Kathryn Yusoff

Geologic Life

Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 975g
• ISBN-13: 9781478026075
• ISBN-10: 1478026073
• Artikelnr.: 68540267

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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