Main entry:

Bobbette, Adam, 1980- author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
©2023

Description:

xx, 224 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

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.

ISBN:

9781478025054 paperback
1478025050 paperback
9781478020073 hardcover
1478020075 hardcover
electronic book
9781478027089

Subject:

Historical geology Indonesia Java.
Religion and science Indonesia Java History 19th century.
Geology Indonesia Java History 19th century.
Géologie historique Indonésie Java.
Religion et sciences Indonésie Java Histoire 19e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies.
Geology
Historical geology
Religion and science
Indonesia Java

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318987
Call No.: 318987
Copy: 1
Status: Available