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Geologic life : inhuman intimacies and the geophysics of race / Kathryn Yusoff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yusoff, Kathryn, author.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black people--Race identity.
- Black people.
- Geology--Social aspects.
- Geology.
- Black race--History.
- Black race.
- Human geography.
- Anthropology--History.
- Anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 597 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Geologic Life provides a magisterial account of the specific processes by which race and racialization emerged geologically. Building on the core idea first explored in her breakout short book A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None--that race is as much a geological formation as a biological one--Kathryn Yusoff develops a spatial account of racialization based on rifts and plateaus, what she calls "the stratigraphic imagination"; that structured Enlightenment thought and its colonial conceptions of the world. The book provides a deep and detailed reconsideration of core figures (Louis Agassiz, James Hutton, Georges Cuvier, and others) from the emergence of Enlightenment and colonial sciences in the 17th-20th centuries to show how colonial geology (as the classification of the origins of earth and beings) organized, and continues to underpin, racialized accounts of space and time"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Insurgent geology and fugitive life
- Rift theory
- Underground aesthetics
- "Fathering" geology
- Geologic grammars
- Stratigraphic thought and the metaphysics of the strata
- Geopower : materialisms before biopolitics
- Inhuman matters I: Black earth and abyssal futurity
- Inhuman matters II: Deep timing and undergrounding in the Carceral Mine
- Inhuman matters III: Stealing suns
- Inhuman matters IV: Modernity, urbanism and the spatial fix of whiteness
- Inhuman matters V: Trees of life (and death), "Strange fruit" and geologies of race
- Ghost geology.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Yusoff, Kathryn. Geologic life.
- ISBN:
- 9781478059288
- 1478059281
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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