... colonialism geology volcanology method Anthropocene ...

... political geology Javanese Anthropocene volcanology volatile geology ...

... in the geosciences is prefigured by Javanese spiritual geographies and volcanology by at least a century. The Anthropocene debate belongs to a much older ambition within the geological sciences to question the boundaries between society and the earth, between bios and geos . The Anthropocene debate also signals...

... geological thought. Theology, cosmology, and volcanology have been crucially bound together in Indonesia. political geology Javanese Anthropocene volcanology volatile geology ...

... This chapter turns to the beginning of volcanology in the Netherlands East Indies and the anxieties of late colonialism. It traces the fate of the idea that medieval Javanese Hindu-Buddhist civilization was destroyed by a cataclysmic eruption of Merapi in AD 1006. This idea became a way...

... This chapter considers the significance of volcano observatories as contact zones between volcanology, geopolitics, and the Javanese ethno-nationalist mystical movement Kejawen (Javanism). The chapter explores the development and evolution of one observatory and its bunker on Merapi...