The pulse of the earth : political geology in Java / Adam Bobbette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bobbette, Adam, 1980- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical geology--Indonesia--Java.

Historical geology.

Religion and science--Indonesia--Java--History--19th century.

Religion and science.

Geology--Indonesia--Java--History--19th century.

Geology.

Indonesia--Java.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xx, 224 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bobbette, Adam, 1980- Pulse of the earth

ISBN:

9781478025054

1478025050

9781478020073

1478020075

OCLC:

1353757999