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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 at 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.
A kaleidoscopic rethinking of how we come to know the earth.
 This book brings the history of the geosciences and world
cosmologies together, exploring many traditions, including Chinese,
Pacific, Islamic, South and Southeast Asian conceptions of the
earth’s origin and makeup. Together the chapters ask: How have
different ideas about the sacred, animate, and earthly changed
modern environmental sciences? How have different world traditions
understood human and geological origins? How does the inclusion of
multiple cosmologies change the meaning of the Anthropocene and the
global climate crisis? By carefully examining these questions, New
Earth Histories sets an ambitious agenda for how we think about the
earth. Â The chapters consider debates about the age and
structure of the earth, how humans and earth systems interact, and
how empire has been conceived in multiple traditions. The methods
the authors deploy are diverse—from cultural history and visual
and material studies to ethnography, geography, and Indigenous
studies—and the effect is to highlight how earth knowledge
emerged from historically specific situations. New Earth Histories
provides both a framework for studying science at a global scale
and fascinating examples to educate as well as inspire future work.
Essential reading for students and scholars of earth science
history, environmental humanities, history of science and religion,
and science and empire.
This book explores the emerging field of political geology, an area
of study dedicated to understanding the cross-sections between
geology and politics. It considers how geological forces such as
earthquakes, volcanoes, and unstable ground are political forces
and how political forces have an impact on the earth. Together the
authors seek to understand how the geos has been known, spoken for,
captured, controlled and represented while creating the active
underlying strata for producing worlds. This comprehensive
collection covers a variety of interdisciplinary topics including
the history of the geological sciences, non-Western theories of
geology, the origin of the earth, and the relationship between
humans and nature. It includes chapters that re-think the earth's
'geostory' as well as case studies on the politics of earthquakes
in Mexico city, shamans on an Indonesian volcano, geologists at
Oxford, and eroding islands in Japan. In each case political
geology is attentive to the encounters between political projects
and the generative geological materials that are enlisted and often
slip, liquefy or erode away. This book will be of great interest to
scholars and practitioners across the political and geographical
sciences, as well as to philosophers of science, anthropologists
and sociologists more broadly.
A kaleidoscopic rethinking of how we come to know the earth.
 This book brings the history of the geosciences and world
cosmologies together, exploring many traditions, including Chinese,
Pacific, Islamic, South and Southeast Asian conceptions of the
earth’s origin and makeup. Together the chapters ask: How have
different ideas about the sacred, animate, and earthly changed
modern environmental sciences? How have different world traditions
understood human and geological origins? How does the inclusion of
multiple cosmologies change the meaning of the Anthropocene and the
global climate crisis? By carefully examining these questions, New
Earth Histories sets an ambitious agenda for how we think about the
earth. Â The chapters consider debates about the age and
structure of the earth, how humans and earth systems interact, and
how empire has been conceived in multiple traditions. The methods
the authors deploy are diverse—from cultural history and visual
and material studies to ethnography, geography, and Indigenous
studies—and the effect is to highlight how earth knowledge
emerged from historically specific situations. New Earth Histories
provides both a framework for studying science at a global scale
and fascinating examples to educate as well as inspire future work.
Essential reading for students and scholars of earth science
history, environmental humanities, history of science and religion,
and science and empire.
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Adam Bobbette, Seth Denizen; Scapegoatsays
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R556
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
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My Picture-Book (Paperback)
Bobbett &. Hooper, Bross &. Bogert, Nathaniel Orr
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R371
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
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