The pulse of the earth : political geology in Java / Adam Bobbette.
| Author/creator | Bobbette, Adam, 1980- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Durham : Duke University Press, 2023. |
| Copyright Date | ©2023 |
| Description | xx, 224 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Political Geology as Method -- The Origins of Java in Four Maps: From an Island of Ruins to Youthful Throes -- Intercalated: The Political and Spiritual Geographies of Plate Tectonics -- AD 1006 Geodeterminism: Cultures of Catastrophe and the Story of a Date -- Geopoetics: Johannes Umbgrove's Cosmic and Aesthetic Science -- Volcano Observatories: Proximity and Distance in Science and Mysticism. |
| Abstract | "In The Pulse of the Earth Adam Bobbette tells the story of how modern theories of the earth emerged from the slopes of Indonesia's volcanoes. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, scientists became concerned with protecting the colonial plantation economy from the unpredictable bursts and shudders of volcanoes. Bobbette follows Javanese knowledge traditions, colonial geologists, volcanologists, mystics, Theosophists, orientalists, and revolutionaries, to show how the earth sciences originate from a fusion of Western and non-Western cosmology, theology, anthropology, and geology. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and fieldwork on Javanese volcanoes and in scientific observatories, he explores how Indonesian Islam shaped the theory of plate tectonics, how Dutch colonial volcanologists learned to see the earth in new ways from Javanese spiritual traditions, and how new scientific technologies radically recast notions of the human body, distance, and the earth. In this way, Bobbette decenters the significance of Western scientists to expand our understanding of the evolution of planetary thought and rethinks the politics of geological knowledge"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Bobbette, Adam, 1980- Pulse of the earth Durham : Duke University Press, 2023 9781478027089 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2022055559 |
| ISBN | 9781478025054 paperback |
| ISBN | 1478025050 paperback |
| ISBN | 9781478020073 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1478020075 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | QE28.3 .B633 2023 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |