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... Chapter 4 shows how geology emerged from European American historic practices to become well established in the “New World” as a foundational modality of settler materialism. As geography was the primary science of imperialism, geology became the political science of empire and its settler...

... geology , in which the subterranean was envisioned as an ordered set of strata that preserved the past and yielded future wealth. The chapter argues that the contemporary legal split between Bolivia’s subsoil and surface realms can be traced back to the codification of theological and geological...

... This chapter outlines how the core ambition of political geology is to explore the intersection of politics, the geological sciences, cosmology, and culture. Political geology was inspired by the Anthropocene debate grappling with geological agency. This chapter shows how the Anthropocene debate...

... Chapter 1 begins with an overview of the material and metaphysical dynamics of geology. First, the historic consolidation of the techniques of colonial geology in the history of Western geology—white geology—is discussed. The examination of key moments of epistemic and theoretical formation...

...Geology's Margins Chapter 1 begins with an overview of the material and metaphysical dynamics of geology. First, the historic consolidation of the techniques of colonial geology in the history of Western geology—white geology—is discussed. The examination of key moments of epistemic...

... Chapter 13 discusses the paradigms of geologic life through the mine and inhuman memory. It shows how geology mobilizes a normative mode of materiality and generates the epistemic spatial work of inhuman-inhumane placement, creating the mine as paradigmatic. Two subjective-earth states can...

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